Excessive Yawning and Constant Need to Breathe Deep

Honestly I think it is sort of a panic disorders have the same breathing problem for years, I recently started doing fast sprints and ever since I started doing them I get nervous and it could also be due to excess working out and running cus that's what I have been doing lately.. Hope that helped

Sorry I know it's awhile since your last post . Did you ever find out the cause  ?  your symptoms are the same as mine .iv had for over a year and lots of tests .they found I have a slight weakness on the left side of my diaphragm . It was nt the best news as basically the consultant said. It might resolve itself, that there is pacing but that's not  particularly good  and a  surgical procedure  that pulls your diaphragm down .. But that does not really work that effectively .. No medication that helps I have been trying to  find out if your can strengthen your diaphragm by exercise  .. Some sites say yes you can . Then others say you can't really strengthen your diaphragm  .i even went to a chiropractor but he was nt much help . It really is horrible. The pressure to keep needing to take a breath then some times it works and sometimes it doesn't ,it's like torture I can't believe in this day and age that a condition so horrible has no real help for the people suffering .

Have your doctor check you for a B12 deficiency.  I had this problem for about 5 years and due to some other symptoms I was diagnosed with low B12 levels. It took a while but my symptoms went away after 6-7 months of taking B12 supplements. 

The lower levels of the B12 "normal" range in the US are also too low.  The normal range is about 200 - 900 and you should supplement your B12 if your levels are lower than 500-550.  My level was 295 and my primary care doctor thought I was fine.  Another doctor said I should take B12 since my levels were in the low normal range.  Google B12 deficiency for more information.

 

Hi wondering how you are doing with the excessive yawning and breathing proble which I have developed.  Finding Buteyko breathing a big help . Has anyone been in touch with Will so I can thank him?

I had this back in 2013, the doctors said I had pericarditus (water around my heart making my lungs push together) I'm 14 now, and have started having it again, along with the exsessive yawning. I have tried taking advil, eating gluten free, excersising and much more but it doesnt seem to go away. It's really very debilitating. I have told my mom about it but she says the doctor already told me what it is and they can't do anything about it. If anyone has any suggestions or any idea what this is, please tell me. 

Like many, I have struggled with this also, I believe it started due to a complex house purchase which stressed me out, I have amended my diet, sleep pattern all to no avail.

Recently I was on holiday and took piriton or a Cypriot version to stop insect bites being itchy, during my holiday my breathing problem got remarkably better without me actually being aware of why (I just assumed possibly being extremely relaxed)

On my return home the breathing problem returned, after racking my brains, I have started taking piriton again, I still yawn more than I probably should and often feel myself going for that deep breath, the only difference is that I actually manage to fully inflate my lungs and get that deep satisfying breath that used to escape me.

No doubt their is some underlying condition however as a temporary fix I take a tablet at night and have very little problem the next day, feels great and a pack of 30 costs the equivalent of less than 10 pence a day. Best money I have spent.

Give it a go

Excessive deep breathing

Yeah i have the same thing, i do competitive swimming so there being a problem with me lungs is a huge problem.

I talked to my coach and i looked at how i was breathing and he siad that i had gotten into the habit of breathing shallowly (breathing with the top part of my lungs) he recommended lying down and doing ten deep breaths everyday trying to fill your lungs each time.

You can do this by extending your stomach out while breathing not just your rib cage.

Do this for a few months and im sure you will be almost if not fully recovered.

I have been doing this for little over a month and i really feel alot better and can train harder as i am not held back my this problem.

Hope this helps

Two months ago I donated blood platelets for the first time. The next day I developed the symtoms that has been reported here. That is how I arrived at this site. My first thoughts were that this must have been related to the platelet donation and some imbalance my bloods' chemical content or my bodys' reaction to that process. I even purchased an oximeter, because I was convinced that I was not getting enough oxygen. That is a fun little gaget and it turns out that if you breathe through your mouth only enough times your oxygen level will drop, but other than that I appear to have normal oxygen levels. 

Three days ago I donated a pint of whole blood only. Since then 99% of the previous symtoms have disappeared. I have gotten a little anxious or paranoid that the symptoms had returned, but I believe now I am only having legitimate

yawns and over thinking the act.

I am convinced that this condition is blood related. I know very little about anatomy, physiology, etc., but I think it is blood that is resposible for carrying oxygen throughout your body. If there were some, vitamin, mineral, or electrolyte imbalance it seems possible that it could trigger your body to react to that imbalace. It seems plausible to me that anxiety could be one of those intial reactions! Perhaps leading to some of the others. 

Maybe, just maybe, " blood letting ", as practiced in medicine more than a century    ago could have been a useful treatment for anxiety !

 

Hi I hope you see this, I googled because I was having this problem earlier and then I remembered how to make it stop. I have COPD but it doesn't mean that everyone that has this problem has it, I think once the sacks in anyone's lungs become to full they don't expand right, hence the feeling of not being able to get the right breathe. So purse your lips like you were drinking out of a straw. And just breathe through the tiny opening in your lips. Keep breathing that way and it will stop feeling that way, hope this helps everyone. It's a horrible feeling, and I think when this happens, anxiety starts in and then it gets worst, yawning and breathing in deep makes it worst too. I'm going to ask my heart doctor this week what is the root cause of this and I'll let you know. Good Luck.