Overbreathing During Exercise Posted: 11-06-07 07:24am
Firstly hello to everyone, i'm new to this
and this is my first starting point to
possibly finding someone else with my
symtoms.
I have breathing problems which occur (or
i only really notice) during exercise. I
have been generally ignored and told it is
unfitness or even ashma by the doctor
which was unbelievable as i had recently
come 5 in the UK at sports acrobatic
tubling and after giving up football to
carry on with my tumbling i found after a
year i tried to play football but found i
no longer could and felt i couldn't get
enough air into my lungs, causing
dizziness, rawness in my lungs, a general
real feeling of discomfort, severe fatigue
and dissorientation and a cough lasting
hours. This was over ten years ago and i
now avoid all them things i used to love
(sport) i have tried to get back into
football, running etc but it all still
leads to this problem. I have had my heart
and lungs checked properly at hospital and
all are fine and i was handed over to a
physio therapist who realised i was
overbreathing. I would really love to get
into contact with someone who has had
something very similar and who has come
out the other side with a good solution as
i have had so many suggestions but don't
know which one to stick to with definate
results? Any info or suggestions would be
greatly appreciated as i am starting to
forget that sport ever existed in my life
and i would really love to be able to play
football with my future children. Thanks
again
Brett
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Maddie34
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Posted: 11-06-07 14:38pm
When I was in high school I would have a
horrible time going from swimming to
basketball. I would spend months getting
my lungs accustomed to how I needed to
breathe in swimming and then going from
that to how you breathe in basketball? I
would have to stop and sit out a lot and I
would have mini panic attacks because i
never felt like I got enough air. It eased
off after I got more into basketball.
Maybe its the same kind of deal? I'm not
sure how you breathe in tumbling.
What did your doctor say?
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brett g
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Posted: 11-07-07 02:21am
Hi Maddie, thanks for the reply.
I have given up going to the doctors years
ago as they were absolutely unhelpful and
not one of them suggested overbreathing or
incorrect breathing just ashma even tho my
peak flow tests were always among the best
they had seen for my age and size. I have
tried persevering with football for a
whole season but i'll be totally honest
there was no improvement whatsoever. I do
remember noticing when i was a tumbler
that i would breath very different to
everyone else, i would hold my breath alot
when conditioning etc and everyone used to
tell me to breath but my body was only
comfortable holding then taking a few
breaths. I think also when performing a
tumble i held my breath too but that may
be normal as it is a very powerful burst
of energy over a short period then a rest
before the next one???
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Maddie34
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Posted: 11-07-07 17:55pm
Yeah, I'm not sure if this is your problem
but I know that holding your breath when
you run is a big no. It causes you to lose
your breath sooner and makes whatever
you're doing very hard. Sound familiar? If
you go out running try and think about how
you breathe so we know this is something
you actually need to work on.
Holding my breath was always a problem for
me when I ran and I needed to think about
how I would breathe during the beginning
of the basketball season so I could get
back on track. But however you train is
how you're going to perform, or at least
that’s what I get drilled into my head
So if you hold your breath when you train
then that’s what you'll do when you
aren't thinking. How you performed when
you tumbled doesn't really concern me but
holding your breath during conditioning?
Not good.
I'm a little curious now. I've asked my
teammates that played basketball in high
school and they gave me some mixed answers
so I'm going to ask a trainer about it
tomorrow morning and I'll get back to you
with some answers and possible things that
may help if I'm right.
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brett g
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Posted: 11-08-07 04:17am
I don't hold my breath when i play
football i'm very consious of breathing
now, i'm not sure if i breath when i
sprint though? maybe not? But i could
train without sprinting, just at a high
pace and still feel all these symptoms. I
feel like im going round in circles as no
one has actually seen all these symptoms
before and therefore cannot seem to help
me. I've tried slowing down my breathing
but i just feel like im suffocating myself
and i find it virtually impossible. As a
child this was my worst fear that I
couldn't play sport for some reason, and i
used to think... How can people not love
sport... Whats wrong with them? It went
from being my life to a distant memory
that i cant even talk about. I think this
has deeply affected me but i hide it and
can be quite moody nowadays and have
nothing to take my frustrations out in.
Sorry for the winge, i just really hope to
meet someone who has had exactly the
same?
Thanks again
Brett
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brett g
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Posted: 11-08-07 04:24am
I just read my message back and it sounds
a bit rude. I really didn't mean it to
sound that way, i think im just so
frustrated I do appreciate
all your responses.
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Maddie34
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Posted: 11-08-07 09:16am
Its no big deal. You're right, I don't
know the situation and my symptoms weren't
exactly the same so I got ahead of myself.
If you know how you breathe when you work
out and know that you do so correctly then
I am clearly wrong in my possibility and
I'm fine you with telling me so.
I do appreciate
all your responses.