Excessive Yawning and Constant Need to Breathe Deep

I talked to a nurse tonight, and she said the getting too much oxgen theory doesn't make sense. my plan for now is getting nerve pills. Has anyone tried this? I am going to try every test and medication I hear about on the internet. I have only had this for 2 weeks. I think I brought it on by anxiety. I also thought about Gerd.

So yours just started, and I have been dealing with this for about 2 weeks. There is a solution on here you might want to try taking health food store pills. It will be worth a try. I couldn't even take one of them because it gave me diarea. Another person said they were totally cured from it by laying on their left side, and breathing shallowly for 10 min. I am going for a lot of tests, getting nerve pills, and I am going to learn yoga, and do exercises for the lungs that are on utube.

Most of these replies are well-intentioned, but I think they are not specific to the problem you seem to be having. If I was treating you, my first questions as a medical professional would be:

1- What medications are you currently taking? And have you recently made any changes to your medication?

2- Have you recently had any changes to your lifestyle/routine (sleep/diet/stress/etc)?

Due to the possibly serious implications (ketoacidosis, blood pH imbalance, liver problems, kidney failure, diabetes, etc) I would suggest seeing a doctor immediately and have him run a full blood workup.

If he believes it is temporary (i.e. stress related), I suggest talking to your doctor about the possibility of trying a steroid inhaler... But again, this is a symptom of too many potentially serious conditions to ignore or look for a home remedy. Please talk to your doctor about it.

Yes i have this habit of feeling the need to mouth breath every 10 seconds. I had this habbit years ago and it went away but now it started back. Im trying to take deep breaths with my mouth close. Its very hard and breathing with my mouth open feels alot better but its a habbit im going to have to stop. My bottom lip is soar and chapped from mouth breathing lol. But i feel like i need to take breaths with my mouth open. Do anybody feel the same?.... Will it ever stop and why did it come back?

Hello all. I started having this problem for a week now. I just got back from my doctor and it turs out that there are many reason excessive yawning and deep breathing may occur. Tiredness, boredom, depression, side effect of medications, caffine withdrawal to name a few. My doctor suggests i get a CT scan of head to rule out some nerve thing (sorry I cant remember what he called it, i was nervous when he was talking) and he also took blood to check for a varity of things like thyroids, sugar level and so on. Ill report back to let you know how it turns out and for the few people that arent suffering from anxiety.

Hi guys after a very very long time I finally actually have a diagnosis. 

Hyperventilation syndrome. Here is the link I have almost all of these symptoms and am so relieved that I finally have an answer I hope,this helps 

http://www.dchs.nhs.uk/assets/public/dchs/services_we_provide/service-directory/our-services/health-psychology/Information-sheets/stress&anxiety/Hyperventilation%20Syndrome.pdf

I know this is an older post, but I've had this problem for a long, long time and could never figure out what it was. Until now. I'm 45, been dealing with this since my teens. It would come and go and recently it was pretty bad and not going away. I've seen breathing techniques and all other things that didn't work at all for me. I actually figured out that (at least in my case) what's happening is that due to inflammation from some foods that my stomach apparently doesn't like, it was causing my stomach to be irritated and that gave my lungs less room to expand. I started eating more carefully and not eating gluten, breads, anything with carbonation etc... It started to help noticeably after 2 weeks. I then just by chance needed a cortisone shot in my shoulder....which is basically anti-inflammatory times 100. Almost within an hour of the shot, my stress to breathe deep was completely gone. Which validated my thought that stomach inflammation from foods I wasn't digesting well as the culprit. We all have foods we eat regularly that we are allergic to. It doesn't make us swell up or get hives or break out. It just irritates our stomach lining which can make us feel bloated or possibly feel nothing at all. The breathing issue is a side effect of this. Eliminate bad foods and eat healthy. You will fix yourself on your own in a few weeks. Good luck. It's worth it! I can breathe again!!

Hi futterbypie..are you ok now what did u you do???

This has been happening to me on and off for several years.  For the past few months, more often, and finally has been non stop and much worse for about 3 weeks now.  For the last two nights, it has woken me up several times.  Does anyone else wake up gasping for air?

This has been happening to me on and off for several years.  For the past few months, more often, and finally has been non stop and much worse for about 3 weeks now.  For the last two nights, it has woken me up several times.  Does anyone else wake up gasping for air?