Please help !! Constant urge to take a deep breath or yawn for over 10 months!!

I have suffered the same issue for years. sometimes I dont feeling it for months. I notice it is more prominent when I am sleep deprived and when I'm stressed. I feel your frustration. How well do you sleep?

I have suffered the same issue for years. sometimes I dont feeling it for months. I notice it is more prominent when I am sleep deprived and when I'm stressed. I feel your frustration. How well do you sleep?

Hello guys. I'm the original person who started this thread just wanted to come back and update if anyone is reading this. It's been 3 years for me now dealing with this symptom. Still going on to this day however what i want to tell you guys is that for me, and maybe for you, this symptom is as debilitating as you allow it to be. I used to be obsessed with finding a reason, obsessed with being online reading about it. It was all I could think of in my days and I think thats what produced so much of my misery. While i do still have the symptoms and some days or during some events it is extremely unbearable, a year ago i challenged myself to continue living my life to the fullest. Stop allowing the fear of the symptom to take over my life. Taking on a positive mentality has helped a lot. The symptom now seems to be something I can manage on my own and even when it doesnt I am able to pull myself through the worse. So im sorry that im not coming here to update you guys on a cure or some medicine, I am still dealing with it. But please guys, don't allow this symptom to be the end of the life you love. Continue to live your lives and practice taking on a positive mindset. I may not be active on the forums anymore just as a measure of controlling my anxiety, but if anyone has any questions this account is linked to my email so if you message me directly i am always open to responding to anyone. were not alone

i have been feeling this since the last 4-5 weeks.. i was so scared.. i thght its maybe a heart issue...i could not explain it to anyone nor could i find an answer to it online.. i have been a smoker for 5-6 years.. 30 yrs old. and a little over weight. as soon as i felt that incomplete breath feeling i gave up smoking immediately. bt the feelings still there. its like one day i am okay and one day i feel like somethings on my chest and i cant get that air to reach every corner of my lungs. and that yawn and deep breath is luck stuck somehwere in 50%.. i have been using steam and applying vapor rub on my nostrils or chest and it gives temporary relief. i am trying the diaphragm breathing too and i m not sure if it helps. currently my city is under lockdown due to corona virus and i was scared to visit a hospital at this time. Coz health care is not that great in my country and people might take it as covid 19 and create panic. (i do not have any symptoms, i work from home, i dont go out often, i have been home for more than 40 days now) also i dont know if anyone has felt this but sometimes i feel as if my breasts are killing me and i cant breathe under the weight.. it sounds stupid i guess bt wearing a bra helps for sometime as if that smothering feeling subsides for some time.. any one felt that? also lying down on my back makes me feel miserable. lying on the side helps. i read all the answers and it brings a certain calmness to think that i am not alone with this unexplained symptom. also i will try the psychologicaly training my mind thing i read in the comments. any one else finds any answer or tips/hacks to get certain relief please please post it here. u never know what a small tip can help some one else. i just dont wNt this feeling this drowning and not able to fill myself with air feeling. it makes me feel scared all the time.

I have something similar and for 7 months saw Drs and all sorts and they diagnosed me with air hunger. The more deeply I breathe the more I want to breathe until I spend ALL the time sighing and yawning. No one offered any helpful suggestions as how to fix this and I eventually found exercises on the internet. Buteyko breathing by Patrick Mckeown- it changed everything for me. Watch his Ted Talk - about 18 minutes. he also has a bunch of videos on YouTube with his technique.

It taught me to break the habit. I also, when I was home alone put some light tape over my lips and every time habit made me want to take a deeeeep breath and overbreathe the tape would remind me to stop and do the slow breathing exercises. after months of horrible breathing and breathlessness it made a huge difference in just a couple of days. Hope this helps you xx

Guys... guys.. guys!!! i figured out a trick that has helped me a lot.. had to share it with you all.. whenever you got that air hunger feeling fill your mouth with water (like cheeks blown out and lips as pursed together) cant explain this properly but fill your mouth full with water and hold it in your mouth.. -and breathe through your nose for 5-7 mins. you can gulp down that water and do again with the next sip. i have been doing this since 4 days almost 7-9 times throughout the day. i realised that air hunger feeing has gone down a lot. i dont know if it will help anyone else but it helped me and no loss in trying it, isnt it? it really helped with that yawn and incomplete air feeling..

Good morning,

While I don't have the cure, I do have a word of advice that may be able to help.

I have suffered from this periodically for many years. For me, it has lasted short periods of time - days or weeks. When I have it, it can be present no matter where I am, and it usually is. When I'm in the middle of a bout, sometimes it seems to goes away temporarily if I'm truly distracted enough to not thinking about it.

But but one day, after having wrestled with it for a while, I realized something -. when I'm waiting for that breath and struggling to get it.... I will not have to wait forever. I will literally not go the rest of my life without ever getting a breath like that again. It WILL come. So then, its a waiting game. It will happen, I just need to wait for it. It's ok. This helped me calm down in the in-between times. Calming down allowed me to start thinking about other things a bit while I wait. It seems that calming down also helps me to be able to take that breath more easily when my body is ready. I think what we're feeling when we take that breath is perhaps some kind of muscle spasm, and unless you figure out how to trigger that muscle spasm just right, your body is only going to do it every so often. (Sure, there's probably some kind of bizarre circumstance under which someone somewhere cannot take this kind of breath ever. But that's not me so far, and I assume that's not you so far either.) Knowing it would come again helped me calm down while I wait. So then it becomes a better cycle - calmer = happier and breathing easier = happier = calmer and breathing easier. If I remember correctly, my symptom waned and then went away within a couple of weeks.

Again, I'm not saying this is a cure. I'm currently dealing with a bout that has lasted several days or about a week now. But this is one way to help me not get so upset about it - dare I say not care about it quite as much? And the less I care about it, the easier it is on me.

I know that this can be incredibly miserable, and I see from your posts that you are suffering so much. I will pray for you. The Lord God Jesus cares for you, loves you and wants to be your help.

I hope this was of some assistance to you.

Much love,

Susanah

if you're going through this and cant find an answer, try this! I experienced this for about two yrs straight. Started out of nowhere, felt like I couldn't take a satisfying deep breath, so I just kept taking deep breaths until it felt satisfying then it would just continue- it was the worst health problem I had ever experienced, so uncomfortable and annoying! I even went to the er once- they found nothing and said it was "probably anxiety." Yeah right, I'm the least stressed out person I know... Then I went to my primary doc & she ran labs and nothing. She sent me to a bunch of specialists: GI- everything normal including swallow test & endoscopy, cardiologist- all tests perfect, pulmonologist- ordered every test he knows and.... all normal. Not only was this issue annoying but now I was annoyed that no one could find out what was wrong with me. This thing was affecting my life everyday, I thought about my breaths all day everyday with the urge to take a deep breath every 5 seconds at times. 2 miserable yrs later, I took myself to the chiropractor & went for a few months- he cracked my spine & neck and used a muscle therapy machine on my back. Shortly after that treatment, I finally saw improvements, but the breathing issue would still come back sometimes. THEN, I started massaging my back muscles with tennis balls (something I learned at a fitness class). Once I started massaging my iliocostalis muscles, I found pain I never knew I had! Now my breathing is back to normal & every time it tries to come back, I release the muscle knots and it goes away! I guess the chiropractic treatment helped relax the muscles a little but i needed to target the muscles directly more.

Dear All.. another addition to the ditto problem.. I have been seeing GP and specialists.. not much of use. For me it started in the month of March (4months ago) .. more from episodic stress relating to financial markets melt down due to Covid 19.. that episode is over but seems it has given me this parting gift to live with. Urge to deep breath .. got tired of this.. artificially try to yawn time and again to get enough air from deep down the stomach. Did any of you observed that its not present while sleeping .. seems its there when the mind is active.

I read a thread about VitB12 .. being vegetarian .. I had the deficiency earlier .. let me get it checked and will keep you posted. Would appreciate if anyone finds any remedy or cure to this .. good luck.