24/7 breathing difficulties please help

When I'm having a blown panic or anxiety attack it feels like I'm having a heart attack, heart racing , then my breathing goes weird , my head gets a feeling like i'm falling. Muscles under stress do weird things , your lungs are just basically big muscles that take in and let out air. I felt my heart skip beats when something really sets off panic.

i am also suffering from this. im always checking my oxygen level. if you need someone to talk to i am here. i know its scary

Like me you probably make yourself hyperventilate. Keep using breathing techniques. Also, checkout Thomas Hall on youtube 20 minute hypnosis sessions. Hang in there. You will get better. CJ

Anxiety symptoms can change for sure! I am the same. Usually my anxiety symptoms are the usual, racing heart, palpitations, diarrhea etc. But recently, suddenly I am getting breathing trouble like yours - lot of effort during inhalation. Antacid pepcid has definitely helped me. So maybe acid reflux was part of my breathing problems. But what has helped me the most is some easy yoga. I used to do lot of yoga before my breathing issue, so doing yoga again now, brings me back to a sense of comfort and familiarity. Try your best to be gentle with yourself, do what you can for self-care, including things that bring you comfort. I speak from experience when I say symptoms never stay forever, eventually how you feel will change.

Hi, I am the same constant breathing difficulties, like i forget how to breath, suffocation, cant take a breath. Wake up choking. I do have ashma inhailors started a new one no help. I think it could be anxiety as it us through the roof. All I can think about is how to breath. Been going on a week now. I have been struggling not to go to A E as think it could all be anxiety. I am a carer as well. Thanks for reading.

amber,

How are you doing with your breathing? I really hope its gotten much better.

Ive been through the same thing as you. 15 months ago I had a panic attack after a traumtic experience and after that I started overbreathing. And of course this vicious cycle starts bc then you get more anxiety. I did every test possible with my family doctor, went to a lung doctor, heart doctor, blood tests, xray, ct-scan , mri, and then even a 24 hour ph study, and endoscopy with bravo test to rule out silent acid reflux. Everything came back normal except for very low iron (but not anemic) and low vitamin d. I am now working with a functional doctor. Ive been told my nervous system is on constant overdrive and my sympathetic nervous system (flight or fight) dominates my parasympathetic (rest and digest). Ive been given biofeedback breathing exercises to do twice a day. I cant believe anxiety can make a person breath like this 24hours a day for over a year and it not have gone away by now. which makes me fear if this is a forever thing. I do tell myself to calm down and it will eventually be resolved. Ive been taking an antidepressant for a month now and that took away the lump feeling in my throat and the shaking all over. But my breathing is the main problem and its the same.

I'v been dealing with this for about half a year now and its completely de-railed my life. I have the same primary symptom that everyone here is describing (unexplained breathlessness) but what worries me is that this happens at night while I'm sleeping (or trying to).

Some people with this have reported being able to sleep while others have insomnia because of it... I'm definitely in the latter category.

As i'm laying there at night, i feel like i'm being suffocated.

This feeling is 24/7. Day and night.

Does anyone else experience this feeling of suffocation at night aswell?

If anyone needs to talk, feel free to reach out.