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

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Okay. Short history. I have had health anxiety for about 5 years now. I am a 19 year old male who is otherwise pretty healthy. 10 months agp, around February-March I began having this sensation in my throat/chest area that was only relieved when i was able to get a good deep breath or yawn. The issue is that this breath or yawn isn't always satisfying so I am  constantly taking a deep breath or yawning. I had this issue when I was younger though it went away instantly, this time however it has stuck around and I am in fear that its here to permanently stay. The last 10 months have been absolutely horrible. Some days are better than others, there are times where i don't feel the issue (at the gym, when out with friends). But for the past 3 weeks it has been absolutely unbearable. i feel embarrassed when outside as i think people are often judging my deep breathing. My job requires me to talk on the phone for 6 hours so you can imagine how unbearable this feeling is. I just need advice/help.Anyone out there who has gone through this or is going through it what helps? Will it ever stop? This issue is bringing my spirits very down as i feel that i will be having to deal with this for the restof my life. Please help me get my quality of life back!!

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    i have had the same problem for more than a year, it can be very traumatizing especially when it feels like you are choking. at first i thought it was sorethroat, medications for that was prescribed but nothing happened still. later I was diagnosed with stomach ulcer, my doctor prescribed omeprazole, i started with the treatment but along the line my body system started reacting to it so i stopped. then i remembered i was once thought during one of seminar programs in a convention that a combination of cabbage and irish potato juice cures all kinds of stomach ulcers, i decided to give it a shot, today i ve started feeling better, i ll advice you try it out if you can. stomach ulcer in most cases causes acid reflux which i believe caused mine.

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    we're on the same boat. I've been asking the same question for 4 months now. I want to know how to overcome this.

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    Hi, so I am having the same problem. Have to keep taking a deep breath or make myself yawn. Its non stop all day long.. been to doctor after doctor and they all say well your labs and tests are normal. gave me a inhaler and told me to take allergy med. That didn't help. I was told that i have gerd(acid reflux)from reading online I see that could be a cause but i take my medicine everyday and eat right but i still have this same problem everyday all day. i wish i had a answer.

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    hey louise i have the same problem is so annoying. It makes my anxiety worse. I will have episodes will last weeks the go away then come back. I have anxiety and ocd. I take medicine and i been on a diet to lose weigjt bexause im overweight. I have had every test done blood work ekg a echo gram xrays catscan when i say every test its all of them. i bought a pulse thing to keep check of my oxgen its always good. Praise God. Every doctor tells me its my weight or anxiety. I have healthy anxiety too. i feel if im gettkng enough air why do i got to keep taking deep breaths. it scares me to be honest thinking something is wrong. Then i freak out more. i pray and keep telling myself when you get this weight off you will feel better soon. But i use to be normal and now its crazy. Go add me to snapchat please missykissy249 i never met somebody who has had the same problem as myself.

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    hi. I am not glad you have these problems at all. I'm glad to hear it's not just me. my problem is I feel the need to breathe deep than sometimes I get tired but idk what it is it's like when I feel need to breath deep I get myself in a fit of panic and and that makes everything start messing up to where al I want to do is sit down and so nothing. I have had panic and anxiety doe years well they say I have went to dr. after dr. and e.r. since 2018 I cant get anyone to help me they all think your a drug user. I wish I could get someone to belive me and help me with my panic attacks now I feel the need to breath deep than I get scared I am dying of congestive heart failure. I do this all the time I am in a very dark place I cant work either. having a friend may help to I just dont know. I hope your better. god bless you. you can read h put to me I will contact you back. Faith

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      hi! im having the same problem and i'm terrified! i keep needing to take these deep breaths, and sometimes they feel satisfying but most of the time they dont. And even if they are, i will feel the urge to draw another deep breath in a minute or so. i'm so scared i have lung cancer and the anxiety is affecting my life so bad. i too need a friend who can understand my situation, so please pm me if you can! my entire family just cant understand my problem and keeps saying its just anxiety. but what if its not??

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      Hi. 😃 I have the same problem. It's been about 4 weeks when this problem started at first. I have constant urge to take deep breaths (i try to do that couple of times 5-6 and i can't get that satisfying breath, but after couple of attempts i finally get that satisfying breath, but after few seconds everything starts again). I struggle with that sensation and urge all day long. When i fall asleep that goes away, but right after i wake up everything is the same and all of that comes again. Doctors keep telling me that cause of that problem is anxiety. But i don't know what to do anymore. I'm so sick of that terrible feeling.

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      i'm so so sick of it too. it's completely taken over my life. i dislike speaking now, coz i keep having to take deep breaths mid-sentence, and i feel ridiculous. i'll be seeing a respiratory doctor at the end of the month. god i'm so miserable

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    I feel a constant urge to yawn and take deep breath’s to satisfy breathing.

    Only after lots of effort it’ll be successful or partially successful, it’ll will not last long and a new urge to yawn or deep breathing will be necessary.

    These symptoms isn’t always persistent but it can go on for several weeks

    Even when its not persistent I do tend to still need to take deep breath’s often. although it would come more naturally and not with such effort as like I have to do when my symptoms are really present

    Some things that triggers it:

    Cigarettes, instantly and very strong (I don’t smoke but used to 3 years ago but issues started way before I started )

    Having a cold or fever

    Being in a room with poor ventilation

    Eating. grilled or burnt food like toast in particular

    Chemicals like detergent or floor cleaning soap

    Speaking longer sentences

    Having restraints like a tight undershirt or seat belt on chest

    What helps:

    Cold water

    Cold air

    Direct air to face like a fan blowing on face

    Eating salt (it helps quite instantly but it won’t last too long and I haven’t experimented enough with trying it out)

    I’ve been through many tests at 2 pulmonologist and also cardiologist and all came back normal

    Edit: I am not overweight but rather slightly under, i have also tried a few inhalers like Breo and so on I have also tried some anxiety meds but none helped (though I don't think i have more anxiety than average but i still tried those meds)

    I would love to hear from others here if eating salt helps, try taking for example a cut up tomato dip its slices in salt and see if it helps)

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    hey i have had this for two and a half years cant get a breath have to constantly yawn to get it out or cough to get it out a feel dizzy sore heads too and chest pains and pains over body and feeling really hot Im really scared its something serious a dont think this can be what the doctors say all the time ansiexty hope your ok how you feeling now and how do you cope with it cause i cant xxx

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    hey i have had this for two and a half years cant get a breath have to constantly yawn to get it out or cough to get it out a feel dizzy sore heads too and chest pains and pains over body and feeling really hot Im really scared its something serious a dont think this can be what the doctors say all the time ansiexty hope your ok how you feeling now and how do you cope with it cause i cant xxx

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    I too started this trend of feeling like i cant breath and have the constant urge to take deep breaths. it all started with me waking up one morning with blood in my mouth, i panicked and started googling crap (i know i have a bad tendensy of doing that) well came to find out it could be lung cancer and i panicked more, i started to spit everywhere and would make my self cough and no blood, took a nap at work and when i woke up i had once again blood in my mouth, i spit till no more blood came out, i found the source once i sucked on the top of my mouth, it was a small cut made by a blister i had taken a bite of a hot pizza the day before and thats what made me bleed. but the lung cancer still stuck to my head, my wife pointed out when i took a deep breath so after that it made me look into it and just feel like i do tend to take deep breaths often. like now i took one idk if its because i wrote about it, but having the anxity about this issue surely doesnt help. i keep telling my self its just in my mind but then i think what if there is something wrong.

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