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Excessive Yawning and Constant Need to Breathe Deep

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For the past few days, I've been yawning a lot, much more than average (once every few minutes I feel the need). If I'm not yawning I'm breathing in as deep as I can to get similar "satisfaction". Often I cannot get the "satisfaction" from these and so the urge grows and grows, meaning it can get quite uncomfortable. When I do manage it, the urge is back a few seconds later. This is whether I'm tired or not, almost all day. 

I'm not particularly anxious about anything in particular, and get the same amount of sleep as before this started. 

This also happened at some point within the past year which continued for a month or two if I remember correctly. 

Does anyone have any idea what it is or how to make it a bit better? 

Thanks.

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  • sharon50060
    sharon50060 FlutterbyPie

    Posted

    I started feeling exactly the same way when I found out I was pregnant. I gave birth. 5 months on I also feel like yawning every so often and have to take deep breaths also every few minutes or so. It only happens some days and other days its fine. I gave up smoking when I found out I was pregnant. I wonder if that is the reason. Have you found out why you were experiencing this?
    • michele29956
      michele29956 sharon50060

      Posted

      Sharon - have you had your iron stores tested? Low iron stores can cause/exacerbate this symptom for me. Good luck, and congratulations on your new baby!
  • ruth33205
    ruth33205 FlutterbyPie

    Posted

    I am having this same issue and it started last week. I searched for my symptoms and found this post which is exactly how i feel. I keep waking up at night to try to take a deep breath and after many tries i can finally do it. is there a natural solution for this ? I can not take any drugs or medications it has to be natrual please help sad

    • marie-josee
      marie-josee ruth33205

      Posted

      Hello Ruth,

      I'm 41, and have been dealing with this problem for at least 4 years. I've come to the conclusion that my problem has been lack of sleep. If I have 10 hours of uninterrupted sleep several days in a row, the need to yawn repeatedly and take many deep breaths disappears completely. This is not convenient because it limits my daily activities, but it seems that body really needs 10 hours of sleep daily. I'm still open to other solutions, but this what I've been able to come up with so far.

      Best wishes to you MJ

    • ruth33205
      ruth33205 marie-josee

      Posted

      Thank you Marie-Josee

      I beleive am healed from this nightmare. read my testimony below if your heard desires. 

      Best wished to you as well 

      Ruth

    • ruth33205
      ruth33205 marie-josee

      Posted

      Thank you Marie-Josee

      I beleive am healed from this nightmare. read my testimony below if your heart* desires. 

  • Cam5100
    Cam5100 FlutterbyPie

    Posted

    I had a great doctor who thought outside of the box for these exact symptoms... inability to obtain that needed deep breath & yawning excessively to attempt to obtain that deep breath. After trying an inhailer for what was thought to be asthma, he prescribed me Protonics, an acid reflux pill to take as needed (the first sign of my inability to achieve that deep breath I desperately needed). It worked immediately. 1 pill worked for the whole day. A 30 day supply, lasted me a year +.

  • nikhil.
    nikhil. FlutterbyPie

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    I am also suffering from excessive yawning...today I have come to conclusion that our need more oxygen not less that is described here that we are taking more oxygen but it's wrong. ..because when we yawn our body needs more oxygen nd we inhale deep breath....so one should try exercise to take deep breath through nose and exhale through nose..I hope everyone here will find it helpful and soon will get well....

  • z2danish
    z2danish FlutterbyPie

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    I am feeling the same as you described. It started one week before. I am using whey protein from last two month after workout at 10 pm and i thought this feeling is due to whey protein. I stopped using but still have the problem. But breathing from nose give me relaxation.
  • h42366
    h42366 FlutterbyPie

    Posted

    Get your iron checked guys! I have gone through exactly this feeling, and doctors suggested all the u
    • h42366
      h42366

      Posted

      Ugh sorry, technical issues.

      But yeah, same problem, doctors suggested the usual: anxiety, fatigue, checked my heart, checked my lungs, found I had higher than average lung capacity for no reason - turns out I had iron-deficiency anemia. When your blood isn't carrying oxygen well enough, you have to breathe too much and yawn constantly to get what you need. If you've ruled out anxiety, etc, check that: iron levels, and red blood cells - quantity and size.

    • michele29956
      michele29956 h42366

      Posted

      That's interesting, I also have higher than normal lung capacity. Way higher than normal; they asked me if I'm a scuba diver! And it was VERY bad when I had iron-deficient anemia. I do still get it occasionally now that my iron levels are normal but nothing like when I was anemic.

    • narges85808
      narges85808 michele29956

      Posted

      Thanks Michele and h42366, that's very interesting to me also. I've had this yawning thing since childhood, apparently nothing to be done about it except avoid caffeine and hot drinks, which seem to be the main trigger. But just a couple of weeks ago, my doctor diagnosed iron-deficiency anemia, so maybe curing this will also help curing the yawning? (Although I can't imagine I've had this anemia for so long, as far as I'm aware it's been tested before...) But I do hope improved iron levels will help with the yawning, as I'm really fond of a little espresso now and then!

    • michele29956
      michele29956 narges85808

      Posted

      It helped me tremendously. I still go through bouts of it but nothing like when I was anemic!
  • iKoshee
    iKoshee FlutterbyPie

    Posted

    Oh man, I've been having this for over 10 years. I was tracking my life flow. I discovered few things. Nothing really affects/treat this shortness of breath right the way. I think it works kind of like intoxication, where it takes some time to change either oxygen level or what ever affects our brain and make it think that we have lack of air and need to support it with deep enhale. I found that it takes around 3 days to notice any diffirence. For example I discovered that my shortness of breath getting worse gradually after sexual activity, day #3 is usually the worst one and after that if I didn't had sex or any physical stress it's getting better, but very very slow. 

    It feels better if you breath less and as someone descibed earlier in this topic you'll feel like fish out of water. What I'm trying right now is to breath slower and mayking like 30% of enhale, it really hard at times because your brain really wants more air. I think that is the problem that we either enhale to much or to often. I'm on my day 2 of this, breath less and fight with myself and I think it improving. Again I think this is long process, think of you're cleaning your blood of drugs, your brains used to have more air than it needs and when we lower air intake it want's more even though it hearts us. I was using App called "Way of Life" this app for bad habbits tracking. I track what I do and have 0 to 10 on quality of breathing that I need to mark everyday and as I said earlier I found pattern where where things getting worst gradually until day 3 after sex or masturbation. I think it definetely has to do something with Nerv system and some things/stress makes you breath more often or to deep. 

    I'm really tired of this and at times when I vist doctor I wish they will find something even serious, because that way I at least will have chance to fight it and maybe win. But instead we're really fighting with invisable anemy that is ruining our life dramatically. I would be happiest man in the world if I'll find the way how to get rid of this nasty desease. I'm even ready to pay good money for help. It's sucks guys sad

    sorry for bad english, this thing that we have doesn't disciminate )

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