Hard to Breathe???

It really really takes some time. Im new to this but have been bothered since the beginning of summer but I have greatly reduced it at times. Key word at times I still battle with it but I never give up and u shouldnt either. What we are dealing with sucks but its not something that we cant stop and its not a disease or something wrong with ur body.

Im sorry if uve said this before but are you seeing a therapist? Someone to talk to? If not I really suggest you do. My anxieties really sky rocketed since my friends death and then a few months ago I had an attack which started this wierd breathing problem. Jsut talking to a therapist helps because u can stand back and take a looka t urself and see what is really bothering u.

To answer ur question yes it is norml for it to take up to any time it does. But u dont have to make it take a long time. When u feel this sensation of breathlessness u need to stand back anbd calm down and realise this isnt a physical thing as much as a mental, there is nothign wrong with ur body. U arent sick. Then u need to try to do things to forget this sensation.

U should take a look at ur life and assess what is causing ur anxiety, sometimes its hard to see, but only u can find out. And then u need to take care of these things, instead of keeping them bottled up and such.

I say it again and again but read about buddhist meditation and try meditation urself. It has worked wonders for me. Ive had days where I was feeling horrible then I went to meditation and felt so much better that I could cry just from the pure joy of it.

Youre fine, you jsut need to relax. This takes time dont be discouraged if u have ups and downs. We all will have them. The ups and downs mean ur on ur road, just stay calm and find ways to help urself along the way.


"every human being is the author of his own health or disease."
-buddha

Hi bblair and other readers...Thank you for being there for me.

My mood swings are sky rocketing right know...Its like a rollercoaster. I recognise this from before...I just hoped I would never feel it again like I had in the past...Its so awful...Im feeling suicidal...

My very first episode (when I didnt know anything about this and couldnt be sure how to handle anything, it went away in 3 to 4 weeks. It took about 2 weeks in order for me to forget it at times.)

im also worried cause I have alcoholic tendencies...I have had them in the past too and drinking makes me feel better...Not good though.

Regarding whats stressing me out this time, im becoming an exchange student and im gonna live in the u.S for a year. Im leaving in 2 weeks...Naturally im worried on how to handle my symptomes away from home.

I try telling myself...The relief I felt last time it "left" me, and how I "forgot" the feeling...And I convince myself it will be the same this time around.

I just dont want do die...And I dont want a panic attack, I know how bad they feel..Had my first at the age of 10.

You know I have been thinking about it and come to the conclusion that maybe I cant press away the feeling of suffocating, but I can change the way I look at it. Not something to panic about. I also feel that it switches from feeling like I cant breath, to feeling depressed or paniced.

Im going out tonight and im gonna try and have a good time...I know this doesnt go away over night, but I also know that I cant possibly get worse than it has so its only up from here then!

Bblair, by the way, how do you sleep and have you had any type of medication, how do you deal with social life, and have you never suffered anything like this in the past??

Love and support // sam

I sleep fine, but thats just me other people cant fall asleep because they feel it before they are about to sleep or what not. I dont take any medication and I never have cept for some allergy medicine when I thought it was allergy related. Ive had minor panic attacks in the past nothing big maybe 1 or 2.

U wrote that u dont wanna die, I dunno that just struck me. Do u worry about death? I do alot I try not to cause it bothers me more but I do now even more since my friends death. But u are not gonna die from what u have or from a panic attack. Even though we feel at times we cant breath, we obviously can cause were here alive. Its just a sensation of breathlessness thats more of an annoyance than anything.

As far as my social life I try to go out and have fun hang out with good positive ppl and dont be afraid to talk to ur friends about ur problem, talking about it helps. Im glad to hear ur gonna go out and have fun. I remember I was feeling bad for a loooong time then I had a really really fun night with my friends and felt great for a few days afterwards.

When I read about u comign to the u.S. And being an echange student I can see whats stressing u out. It makes perfect sense that ud be having these bad feelings at this time. But at least u see whats bothering u and u can work on that. Look at all the good things instead of the bad.

People that have anxiety need to put it somewhere, we put it on ourselves. We worry about our health, we think we cant breathe. Other people check things over and over, otherwise known as o.C.D. If u can take ur anxieties and try to put them somewhere else ull feel better. Maybe go running or draw or write. Whatever u feel.

Dont worry about the past or the future becuase they dont exist. Now, right now is all that matters. Just live in the now and ull be fine.

I hope u find some release, I know u have the power in you.

Could it be so that you "get used" to the problem, and through that it isnt as much of a chock as it was to feel anything wrong with your breathing in the first place.

What do you do about very intense anxiety, I have severe attacks where I feel like im capable of almost anything. I also have a very fast heartbeat and tremblings.

Most of my anxiety is out of the feeling that nothing will ever become the same again, and that I didnt enjoy it to the fullest when I was problemfree..I had the same thoughts during the other times I have had attacks of breathing problems. I try not to worry about my deprature to the u.S but its a travel I have been looking forward to for 2 years...The thought of this problem overshadowing that is devastating and just makes me want do die...I also spoke to one of my closest friends I and just burst out crying cause it was like...I will never be able to see him again and feel normal...The last time we met was the last time for that...Thats such a grief I cant describe it!

I wouldnt want to die if I didnt feel like this...But im not scared of death either, its a weird comfort, that there is some way out of the misery if all else fails..

I just try so hard to remember how I got better the last times, but its so hard!

Death is no way out. Dont give up.

Heres my advice. If u want it back, then !@#^ing take it back. Youre stronger than u think, you are just letting this problem make u think ur weak. Everything u want can happen, if u want it hard enough. You are healthy. Have u gone to doctors? Did they tell you were ok? If so ur fine. I know u still dont "feel" fine but that is jsut ur shock from all of this and it gets worse cause when it goes and then comes back u worry more and u make it worse. U need to realise this is just in ur head. And I really think u need to work on ways to control ur mind.

I cannot stress meditation enough. Honestly I dont think id be in as good a position as I am now without it. I still have my days when I feel it here and there but im working on training my brain to not concentrate on my breathing. Any person who keeps thinking to themselves "am I breathing right?" is gonna think they have a breathing problem. Breathing is second nature, u shouldnt think about it. Me and u have and its made us nuts and its snowballed into this. It all stems from anxietes over other things. You need to control ur brain instead of having it control u.

If u really want to take my advice, go meditate. Either do it at home or look for a buddhist temple in ur area, like I did. Its great, its so calming. For me its wednesday evenings that a bunch of ppl come and meditate for like an hour. You relax and think about one thing, nothing. I know that sounds impossible but over time u learn to do it better. Im not gonna go into how u should meditate cause u can easily look up the basics online but make sure when u do, if u do, which u should, that u just focus on ur breathing which is slow and deep through ur nostrils and when thoughts come into your head and cloud ur mind just drop them like a hat and continue focusing on ur breath.

Meditate, stay busy, eat healthy, have fun and forget the bad thoughts. When u have this sensation tell urself, its something I made up and I can destroy this. Tell yourself "i created this thing in my mind and I can just as easily stop it". U will have ur ups and downs, its just most important for u to not let the downs take control of ur life.

Also, have u told ur parents about this problem. If not u should. It might be helpful for u to see a therapist as well. These are normal symptoms from anxiety afterall and a therapist can help u out.

Anyway I hope u try and do some of the things I listed, they helped me and I hope they help u.

Sincerly
rob blair.

I know all that that you have told me in the past, about meditation and just "forgetting about it" but I have too say that the feeling is so weird for me its just so weakening.

I think my mood has taken the biggest toll really. I feel sensations of depression and I also have had major anxiety attacks. Naturally I have a hard time, letting go of that, and I fear for example, being home alone (right now, has never been a problem in the past).

I remember from my previous episodes of this problem, that sometimes I wouldnt know what was worse, the anxiety or the breathing problem. I had a very dark day to day life and mostly I feared being alone.

I also think that the problem eases at night, I dont forget about it but I dont feel a difficulty breathing, only that I have to mind it. But still I dont have the patience to appreciate this, I just look at it in either black or white. Either its good right now or not at all. I try to appreciate all moves for the better..Cause there will be more of them to come. Last time it was just like that too....Within a few days I will try and lower my dose of diazepam.

I did it like that last time, and somehow if I feel that the sleeping inst a cause for worry this may lower my anxiety somehow.
I think that I shouldnt worry too much and think things like "oh, it feels worse now..." "maybe it wont pass this time" "i will have to kill myself cause I cant live with the grief of never feeling the same" these thoughts are my worse, and I know its catastrophy thinking. But I feel like if it would just go away right now, I would be the happiest person in the world! Like its too good to be true that it would work out...Bad thinking I know!!

How does exercise affect you?? My breathing feels much more strained when I excercise. I also wake up with a very fast heartrate and tremblings. Is you problem present during the whole day from the minute you wake up? Mine are and it has been like this every time I have felt it. I know that this is problem that gets easier over time.


Dont you also think that you get used to this, and when you do it goes away???

Thank you som much bblair...Ist such a comfort to know that there are other people in the world to support you, any reply from you is great, you have no idea the difference you make.

Like I said some days are better than others. Sometimes if I dont think its my breathing I think its my heart and imagine things with that. Since you are on some sort of medication. I am assuming u went to doctors and they ruled out any possible physical problems.

I feel my symptoms at different times but usually not right when I get up.

U should discuss with those around u about ur fear of being alone and how u going away is bringing out that fear more. The truth is u are never alone. Ever, ever, ever. There is always someone going through what u are. U are not alone even though u may think u are alot of the time.

The reason why I suggest meditation so much for you is because you will trian ur brain not to think so much about ur problem, not to focus on it so much. You will still think about it but not to the point where it bothers u. It takes time and practice but any therapist will tell u meditation is agreat way to help. If u really want my help, u should at least try it.

Some people think the only reason we cant fly or caca like that is cause we were told our whole lives we couldnt. I dont know if I beleive that but the idea is right. If u keep telling urself u are sick and dying and ur alone and u will never be ok again, well then u wont. The truth is ur fine, ur better than fine, u just have to beleive it. If a child is born in a dark room and stays there till he dies then thats what he will think the world is, a dark room.

I felt much better today actually, a weird feeling that I didnt have trouble breathing (i still thought about it alot though) and when I get home, I get the message that my grandmother passed away.

Somehow I knew it would happen...I sort of said goodbye this saturday when we visited her...Im worried that this will cause more anxiety with me, but its still a release cause she suffered so much which also plagued me.

Is it a good sign I felt better today at least for a little while, and its only been slightly more than a week of this problem?

Love/sam

Thats good news ur feeling better, sorry about ur grandma though but if she was suffering like u said its better for her in the end. She lived a long life u know.

Its funnny that u feel better and I kinda am feeling a little shitty today. Hahahah. Not with my breathing but just feeling physically sluggish and tired, I started falling asleep at like 8 last night and work up at 11 this morning. Thats a lot of really sleep lol. But whatever.

Do u have a job? I just recently got one again and everytime im at work I feel fine. Its just somethign to keep ur mind busy so it doesnt run away from u and think all these bad thoughts.

Well im glad to hear ur having progress!

Im on summers vacation for the moment, having been since june 14. Well today I felt like my heartbeat slowed down, and later on like I didnt have a hard time breathing, rather like I just had to think about it. This made me feel strange. Like I was getting better but then I get impatient like "get all good right now!"

i think this is a sign im getting better cause last time it was like that too, first feeling like im suffocating (a feeling I still get on and off) and then to just me thinking about it a lot, though breathing not feeling strained, and then into more of a depressed mode. All this happening in like 4 weeks. Though I remember last time when I started forgetting about it for small times it was such relief.

Regarding my night sleep, last night I took only 1/4 of a pill, meaning I have lowered my dose (again) I slept fine. This is a great sign. My goal is to get of the meds completely.

I also had a lift in my mood today, I have started taking the natural supplement 5-htp to control my mood swings along with this. I dont know if its working though.

Tonight upon going to bed I will pray for my grandmother and her spirits relief from her suffering (she couldnt get out of bed, read or barely speak). I did say goodbye and I cried and told her how much I loved her, she looked at me and she said "my beloved sam" I will never forget that. I know she loved me, we´ll meet again.

I must remain faithful to the fact that I felt better today and I will again !

Thank you bblair (rob?) for being there for me like you are. Truly your replies delight me and keep me going. The time you take responding is making a huge difference in my life.

Im also wondering are you reading anything for comfort? Like the bible or something spiritual? Hope im not offending you cause I havent got the slightest clue how you are directed but I would recommend

"conversations with god" by neale donald walsch. The series of books can change your view on life, as it has with mine and im only 16. I also think they work when im greiving my grandmother cause they explain that death isnt dark and painful. When the soul leaves the body its filled with love and happiness and calm. Thats where she is now.

Love//sam

Hey have u guys abandoned me ??

Really need your advice right now. Today I was feeling slightly better in the afternoon. Tried to distract myself by all means possible. I felt an increase in anxiety and thought I was having an attack. This is weird.
My emotions roller coasters on me all the time. When I feel the anxiety coming on strong I dont really feel the breathing as much.

I feel a little scared to be alone and I also feel like everytime someone has to go, I feel lik a little child being left all alone.

I have a hard time accepting if I feel better, its like its too good to be true! It would be a dream for me!

My symptoms are worse in the morning/daytime how does this happen??

Since I have gotten better over the course of less than 11 days, time should be running out on this right??

Last thursday after two back to back stressful days at lunch with my kids, my heart just started pounding and I felt light headed. I found it hard to breath.

This feeling did not leave. Later that day it was so bad I went to the hospital because I was scared of a heart attack. I was a three hour wait with people puking all over the waiting room so I just went home and was ready to call 911 if need be.

A week later I went to my doctor appointment and blood work was done and an ekg. No blood clot in the lungs and not heart problems. My blood pressure was fine and no temperature. But, my lung capacity was tested with this spiro thing and it was very low. I registered between 250 and 300 and i'm 5'4'' and 120 lbs.

My doc is trying asthma medicine on me. The breathing treatment he gave in the doctor's office didn't seem to help though. I am guessing the next step is a chest x-ray. I am having sinus or some kind of congestion I swallow down. I checked the color and it's clear, doesn't look gross or anything.

My started after intense stress. I have had these sensations before but they are worse this time and have lasted a week. Whereas, before it lasted a day.

I looked up difficulty breathing and they all same the same thing, the feeling of needing to yawn to get a good breath or feeling air hunger.

It's no fun because my heart beats fast and my chest gets tight and it feel hard to breath and I need to yawn to get my breath. *yawn*

sleeping doesn't help, I tried that earlier.

My shoulder blade started hurting today too and my back always feel so tense and tight. I pop my neck plenty and stretch my back plenty.

One thing I have noticed, both this time and the last, is that the feeling of breathlessness switches to a feeling of depression and anxiety, this goes very much up and down.

Its so weird, I cant stop my crying spells and feeling of helplessness....I noticed the exact same thing earlier times...Its just so messed up (sorry to say) all the anxiety and depression goes away when the breathing problem has subsided. Should I get help for it in the mean time??

The anxiety comes and goes but is worse during the day time, I feel "abandoned" somehow...Weird...Scared to be alone...Is this some sort of "after reaction" to what has happend.

Anyways im sleeping fine now without any kind of meds! Big step !

I have studied whole food nutrition and have studied the processing of our food and the beginning of our food as an industry. I studied this because I wanted to answer the question, "does the chemicals in our food affect our behavior?" common sense tells anyone that when chemicals put inside your body whether it's drugs or food chemicals will affect your body mildly or greatly.

The amount of chemicals that go into our processed foods we get from the store is worse than smoking a cigarette. The chemicals in our polluted air is also pretty bad.

I beleive plenty of the depression problems and allergies people face today is because of our food industry and so I beleive with education of how to use food without chemicals can stop plenty of the reactions we experience.

Does this make sense to anyone?
Thanks

Well.
I was amazed to find so many people having the same problems.
To list my symptoms:

*difficulty getting a satisfying breath.
*sometimes having so much trouble that I fear dying.
*increased mucus in the back of my throat
*the inability to to physically exerting activity
*waking up feeling like I just held my breath underwater or that I stopped breathing.
*being unable to lean on my left side when I sleep because of hearing my heartbeat.
*chest pain
*muscular and rib pain from straining breathing.
*dizziness at times.
*tingling fingers
*a "pop" in my chest, when struggling for a good breath.

This started in may and was on and off until it just eventually didn't go away again.

Heres the deal.
My mother died in march.
I suffered from anxiety attacks and depression last year. I know what it feels like.
I have asthma and allergies.
I just stopped smoking, but have been smoking for 6 years.

Plain and simple, I have too many other issues to just know it's anxiety, but if I were to put money on it, I would put it on anxiety.
Once I get my lungs checked out by a pulmonary doctor, i'll feel secure in that decision.

Here's how I feel you can call it anxiety.

Do you feel it gets worse when you're alone?
Do the really difficult attacks only last 15-30 minutes? Maybe more, but not all day?
Does it feel better when you're not paying attention to it?
Do you not notice it when you're in the presence of loved ones or people you feel safe with?

Like grungeprincess, i've dealt with anxiety before. Although, I didn't have the breathing issues.
It takes time.
In fact, mine only really went away after major positive changes in my life.
I went on a musical tour.
I met a wonderful girl.
These things take me away from it.

Look at it this way.
You're not dying. (most likely, but probably not if you have the symptoms above)
but if your brain is telling you you're dying...Then go out and live like it's your last day.
Don't pay attention to it, live life and live it hard.
And then one day, you'll wake up and realize that you havent' felt that way in a while.
Continue.

Granted, I haven't gotten there yet.
But that's my plan as soon as my asthma doctor tells me it isn't asthma or bronchial related.

Anxiety disorder, panic attacks & depression are a sign that something is wrong. Something needs to be amended in your life.It could be your home environment, your work environment, relationships or an illness causing your anxiety, panic ...

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Iv got somthing to tell you all
your going to live !! Lol I was just giving a shout out to my homie hypo lol you know who this is :o

Anxiety is a part of everyones life. There are different ways of dealing with different of anxiety owing different causes. Proper treatment and support can help a person to deal with their anxiety in a better way and making living with it better. And with time one can find himself or herself free from the majority of their issues. Causes and types

anxiety is mainly of two types. One type is that type of anxiety with which you can deal and the other type is worsened form of anxiety which leaves a mark on your personality. The first type of anxiety is easy to deal with. Support from your near and dear ones can help you to come out of your anxiety or you can always deal with it on your own, without needing any support. But the second type of anxiety requires some effort to make living easy. The first thing that is needed to be done is to determine which the type of your anxiety is and then find out the root cause of it. Causes for anxiety can be external as well.

So in order to deal with your anxiety in a better way you need to find out whether your anxiety is caused due to an external factor or not. Any bitter incident which took place in your past life can be the cause or sometimes it can be an indistinct intuition that something is not right but if your anxiety is due to some external factors then you should work towards dealing with it. However there is no obvious external cause for anxiety reactions to life.

Studies are still conducted to find out the cause of anxiety in people who dont have any reasonable past traumatic experience which could lead to anxiety. People with deep rooted anxiety may have chemical imbalances in their brains for improper registration of neuro chemicals. However you should be aware that it is not a proven fact with any concrete evidence. A relatively new study conducted in 2005 showed that it is possible to do a normal blood test to find out the chemicals present in the brain which can cause anxiety.

Symptoms

more or less all the anxiety symptoms are quite well known because over the years people have experienced anxiety. The usual symptoms are prolific sweating, lump in the throat, palpitations, twitching, dry mouth, chest pain and shortness of breath or wheezing. However these symptoms can exist as side effects of some other medicines or some other psychological issues. When linked to a phobia, as opposed to being general anxiety disorder, the symptoms normally only happen in reaction to explicit stimuli.

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Considering I don't seem to see anyone who is actually figuring their way out of this mess posting here.
Allow me to support the fact that, after you go through some basic checkups from doctors...You might want to accept that it's anxiety.
More specifically....Hyperventilation syndrome.

Http://www.Erzo.Org/~ki mberly/health/hvs

check that page out.
It straight up nailed my symptoms.


I guess i'm gonna try some anti-depressants.
I've already had problems with anxiety and depression in the past.
I would assume it was only difficult to target because I also have asthma and allergies.