Excessive Yawning and Constant Need to Breathe Deep

tonight has been extremely difficult for me.my breathing has flared up very bad from stress any advice or suppliment recommendations besides amitriptyline someone reach out

its like a emergency room flare up

So, I would like to give you my feedback since I have experienced Shortness of Breath for years. I'll try to make this short.

For over 10 years I have had difficulty breathing, feeling like I could never catch a good breath, gasping sometimes for air. 6 years ago, I went to a Nose doctor and they told me my septum was extremely deviated. I had surgery and fixed the problem. For a while it felt better, but than it came back. Since it wasn't something that would stop me from doing day to day activities I didn't care too much and lived with it. Then 2 years ago, I was feeling horrible, but living in New England in the Spring I was immediately told by my doctor I had Asthma (even tho I tested negative) and was using an inhaler for 6 months to no avail. I then had to do tons of work, pulmonary work, allergy tests, asthma testing again, blood work etc.

Turns out I was extremelly anemic due to Celiac Disease. It was a huge surprise to me and my doctor that accidently found out I was positive for Celiac. After a year following a Gluten Free Diet I was able to get rid of my anemia and raise my Iron and Ferritin levels to a normal level. Thank God the breathing issue has passed. Once in a while I need to take a deeper breath, but at this point, I believe it's more like bad posture, stress, or even trying to re-educate myself how to breath (believe it or not). I hope this helps!

Nope, not the issue here. all blood work normal. PFTs normal, cardiac normal. They say anxiety but i never feel anxious or hyperventilate. I just dont know and either does anyone else. Nobody really gives a hoot because its not them..

for a week now i feel a chest tightening sensation and the need to yawn constantly. im 14 and heart problems dont run in the family but everytime i think about it being something serious i get a panic attack and my hands go numb and cold. my parents cant afford the doctors because we have no insurance but im worried it may be something bad. the feeling is constant and hasnt gone away for about a week

Hi, I am a 20 year old female and was having the exact same symptoms as these. I had never had anything like this before. One day i just noticed out of the blue that i felt like someone was sitting on my chest and i could not get a deep breathe, I was also constantly yawning as well. The best way to describe it was that i felt like i was slowly suffocating. My mom is a nurse so we had an oxygen/pulse reader at home and i knew i was getting enough oxygen so that wasn't the problem. This went on for about a month, some days it was easier for me to breathe than others. When I'd tell my doctors they'd say maybe it is anxiety because all tests were coming back normal. I knew that this was not anxiety and that there was something wrong with my body. I started to feel like i was going crazy because no one knew what was wrong with me. I felt like we were constantly running into brick walls and would never find an answer. My mom decided to take me to an Allergy Doctor not really thinking anything of it. But after doing multiple breathing tests it turns out i had a 54% lung capacity out of 100%, a normal range for someone my age is 80%-100%. They also believe i may have something called POTS syndrome which may have no correlation, but maybe someone can relate. I am still on the road to figuring out everything health wise and getting back to how i felt before all of this. The biggest thing i learned through this is that you know your body best, if you feel like you are not getting answers keep looking. Don't let a doctor slap a crazy label on you and call it good.

I am experiencing this same issue with the constant urge to take a deep breath. It has been years since anyone has last commented on this thread but I was hoping maybe you could respond and let us know if you have found relief.

what is wrong with me this has been far to much suffering ive met alot of people on here not one who relate to the severity of my problem.. i feel as if my lungs are failing and its to the point of no return everyday im fighting to stay alive... i cannot week the help other on here can seek i am barely able to move because exertion makes me much worse... its unbearable, the 30 second gasping and gulping for a deep satisfying breath also yawning its every minute for a year and a half every waking moment.. im not sure how dying feels but id imagine identical to how i feel every moment my eyes are open literally ZERO BREAKS in intensity or duration.. just 24/7 barely able to finish a meal or take a shower how can this be benign or nothing my body is literally withering the weight loss the deconditioning the inability to move the suffocation its absolutely UNBEARABLE please someone anyone reach out to me who relates to me who has breathing difficulty to thie extreme my grandmother has copd and heart failing and never gasp or yawns once...