I feel like I can't take a deep breath

Has any of you guys felt some kind of relief when swallowing food? I feel my breathing passage is somewhat widen up after swallowing food. I have done a barium swallow test to see if there's anything wrong with my esophagus, but nothing is wrong with it too. After doing some researches on where did the food and breathing passage meet, I think this has something to do with the organ that closes the breathing passage while we eat, which is called EPIGLOTTIS, and the symptom may be EPIGLOTTITIS. Has not go to the doctor yet. I think I'll go on Monday. BTW I'm in military academy, and whenever I do exercise, it didn't actually bother me though 😅. Maybe it go away when we need a lot of air to breath..idk..

Sorry for bad English, I'm a Malay.

I've had the exact same symptoms as you've mentioned in above discussion, It was at night when I was about to go to bed when all of a sudden I couldn't take a proper breath and immediately began to get anxious, Went to Physician next day and addressed to him my symptoms but he didnt find any sort of problem, I was suggested a visit to the Pulnonologist and all his prescribed tests (including a Lung X-Ray) came out as normal. It was my second visit to the physician when he ordered a Vitamin B12 and D3 test. The results came out and I was found to be severely deficient in both the Vitamins. Its been just 2 weeks since I've begun treatment so I can't really tell just yet if vitamin deficiency is the cause of my Dyspnea but I would certainly suggest you to take the test of these 2 Vitamins as their deficiencies are relatively common and symptoms often take time to appear.

Thnx

Hello all,

I am an oral and maxillofacial surgeon who also suffers from this problem. I believe I have found a cure (at least for me). I realized that the problem for me is musculoskeletal. I initially was concerned that it was asthma, or anxiety, or something else. I even went to the emergency room because I was having so much difficulty breathing. For the past several months have been doing some new exercises, in particular a rowing machine. Also I have been sitting a lot for work. I’ve been having this breathing problem which lasted for approximately two weeks. I found that rolling on a tennis ball along my spine on my back was extremely painful but also relieved an amount of tension. Immediately I was able to begin breathing better. I think my problem relates to muscle spasm along my rib cage in my back. I would highly recommend this tennis ball maneuver as it requires very little and has very little drawback for trying. I’ve been doing it for the past several nights. I immediately gain improvement but it still relapses some during the day. I am hopeful that I will return to normal. Please let me know if anyone else tries it and if it works for them. Thank you.

I posted previously on this, and wanted to report back that I've found a solution.  Similar to the posting from jeremy93277, I had numerous visits to allergy/respiratory/pulmonary physicians, cardiac tests, etc. No solutions, and nothing helped.  On week 6, I visited a shiatsu practitioner (a form of acupressure). I told him what I was experiencing prior to our session, and the western medicine ordeal i had been through.  At the conclusion of the session, he indicated that it seemed my lung issue was the result of a muscular issue.  He asked if I had ever seen a chiropractor (not for a few years) and referred me to a practitioner who was "open to eastern medicine."  I made an appointment for the end of the week.  The day after the shiatsu session, I could breathe a bit better.  If i could only catch a deep breath or complete a yawn 10% of the time, I could now do that about 20% of the time.  Two days later, I visited a massage therapist, and explained what was going on.  She worked on me very deeply for a 90 minute session. The next day, my breathing was even better.  Two days after that, I saw the chiropractor. I explained the past 6 weeks, and the past sessions with shiatsu and massage. He said my upper back was literally "frozen" - it was so tight he couldn't get anything to move.  So, rather than force anything, he just "coaxed" the muscles, trying to get them to release a bit.  The next day my breathing was better still. I went back to the chiropractor 3 days later, and he continued the "coaxing," and said it seemed things were beginning to loosen. I told him i was breathing better, and he felt, like the shiatsu practitioner, that my issue was muscular.  He explained how the muscles are connected to the ribs, and how those expand and contract with the diaphram as we breathe.  To more chiropractic sessions and one more shiatsu session later, my breathing is back to  normal.  I'm going to see them both a couple more times, just for good measure, but I'm so relieved to have found a solution to my issue.  I hope this helps others suffering with this condition.

I feel your pain although you’ve gone through more hoops than me, I’ve been trying to catch my breath since 2008~ went through a triple bypass in 20 I was 47 that wasn’t a success causing me to endure exercise induced angina being put on medication that lowered my blood pressure to near fainting and thus causing me to go into anxiety mode, in September 2007 I had a stent placed in vessel that didn’t fix from open heart surgery and 2 days later I suffered a massive brain bleed and had the doctors expecting me to die from the size of the bleed. But I’m a marvel to science am still here and still yawing and still trying to catch my breath. I was I could help you more so sorry.

THANK GOD. SOMEONE HELP ME! I’m 14 and have had this problem for like the past year. I hope someone can explain to me: around 4-5 years ago I had an episode- it started out with just shortness of breath then suddenly I was dizzy and hyperventilating. This has happened 5 or 6 times to me over the past years and it always happens out of the blue like for no reason at all. Then suddenly, like a year or a half year ago, I started feeling like a can’t pull in a complete breath. Like there was something filling my lungs so that I can pull in air- like you want to add milk to your coffee but there’s already too much coffee in your cup so you can’t pour it in. And every time I take a breath I feel like the bac of my throat is getting scratched away or irritated so I have a short cough. I’ve been to many doctors including pediatrist and pumonologist and taken X-rays and blood tests and is always shows nothing wrong and now it just looks like I’m lying about this. I also feel dizzy when this happens. I don’t like self- diagnosing but I searched it up and I believe it’s called dyspnea- look it up. . Anyone who is going through or has gone through he same pls reply. Everyone tells me I’m too young to have such problems. I don’t think age matters

Hi .  I read your remarks and I, too, am a Christian.  I have been dealing with this breathing problem for about 6 months now and I wondered if you have any new information that has been helping you deal with it.  My problem is causing most of my discomfort during the night when I lie down but it is also random during the day.  Please let me know if you have had any relief.  Thank you for your insights.

Hey, thanks a lot. After reading your response, I’ve got a clarity of whom to meet. I’m suffering from this breathing issue since a decade. Did not know whom to meet. Other doctors could not find what it was. Everyone says I’m healthy, but no one understands my issue which I’m going through. No one believed in me, everyone saw me as if there no problem of that kind, which I’m facing since a decade. Thank u so much.

Hey! I have been experiencing the same problem for about a year. Lately I have noticed my back hurting me as well. Have any of you experienced this?  I don't know if it has to do with my constant deep breathing.