Shortness of breath even when im not having an anxiety attack!

Omg I have the same thing 24/7 for 5 days. E.r admitted me overnight cause they thought I had a heart problem. Turns out negative and aall other tests negative. They gave me klnopin does not work and breathing exercises do not work.

How r u. Do u have any advice

I have been on and off with anxiety for 3 or 4 years now, but I never really have panic attacks I just seem to suffer with breathing difficulties a lot. at least once a day and it lasts a few hours sometimes. It affects work as its worse when I'm driving, I am constantly snappy with my kids my partner and my family members I've had councilling which never helped I was taking meds for around a year which never helped its just a repetitive cycle of nothing working. Supposingly it will dissappear one day and if they are correct I hope that day is not to far in the future because it takes control of my life and its something I've learnt to live with now but it's still terribly scary

hey yall

i am going through the same thing. i have had bad anxiety my whole life. i have had acid reflux because of it and also suffered from

nervous tics. i have struggled with one tic in particular my whole life; sometimes i feel like i cannot stop swallowing. does this happen to any of you? i just started having sob after i had covid. i have also felt like someone was choking me/hard to swallow and had chest pains. i also am having trouble sleeping; any little sound makes me jump and sometimes it feels like my heart is sinking in my chest. i am young and healthy but I had a scare when i had covid and went to the ER. anyways since then i have been so afraid that my breathing isnt normal. i have gone to the doctor twice in the past week and my oxygen levels were perfect and heart was fine. all of my covid symptoms are gone and i can take deep breaths. i was diagnosed with panic disorder and given lorazapam for my panic attacks. i have also been on lexipro for a little over a year but i stopped taking it when i was sick. i am seeing a professional next week, so hopefully that will help!! i am trying to remember how powerful anxiety is and that it does cause real physical symptoms. it is also important to note that while these symptoms are scary they are not actually life threatening. it is really hard though with the pandemic going on. best wishes to you all! we got this!!

I. feel the same way!! I googled anxiety and feeling short of breath and this popped up.... I feel like your story is almost identical to mine. I'm a mom of 5 (16,11,5,3&2) and so stressed out. ive been off meds for depression and anxiety for over a year but my anxiety has returned and is the worst its ever been! I'm exhaustes 24/7 due to anxiety and recently started getting sob at times. its usually when I'm paying too much attention to my breathing. I freak myself out and Google these symptoms and then that makes it so much worse. ive convinced myself I have Congestive heart failure for some sad reason and I'm so scared! I feel like im losing my mind! I go to my reg doctor tomorrow but I'm not sure what to tell her.

anyway thank you for posting now I dont feel so alone in this

It's really encouraging to hear that someone else is going through the exact same thing as me. This shortness of breath is soo scary and no one seems to understand! My therapist says that usually shortness of breath only last for 30mins with anxiety but I know what i feel. With me its off and on, sometimes when im thinking about it and other times when Im not. It last for days! Ive been to the ER 2x for it. The first time I really thought i had covid, they kept me over night ran all types of test, ekg, xray and sent to a Pulmonologist too, Nothing! Second time, ok for sure I have Covid and my lungs have to be failing, thinking i may have to go on a ventilator.. nope! no covid and was given a small does of anti anxiety med and the shortness breath didnt stop until I drove all the way home 1hr, walked in my front door,then it was over. As i am writing this, I have the shortness of breath but again, its been about 1 week now, off and on. I keep googling "difference between shortness of breath due to covid vs Anxiety" My therapist wants me to take deep breaths when it happens but it only works for a few seconds after then back to the shortness of breath! Thank you for sharing your story!

I am thanking God that i found this form, ugh. i was just in ER yesterday because of Acid reflux and feeling like i couldnt take a deep breath, i suffer from GAD it runs my life, they did EKG and that came back fine and said it wasnt my heart, it was just GERD which i know i probably gave myself with the worrying, i have 4 kids and i am deathly afraid of germs and covid , i just recently had my fourth child and i feel so guilty with how many times i have left him to go to ER to get tested cause anxiety absolutely hate it! i never experienced the trouble breathing before but my 02 is fine . I want so badly to beat this , i never use to be this way 😦 . so im glad to know others are experiencing this. I have been to ER once a month now for the last 7 years for this 2 ambulance rides as well. makes me feel like a failure as a parent.

I have poorly controlled anxiety and have trouble breathing 24/7. Every doctor tells me I'm fine and to take antidepressants, but I haven't found one that doesn't make things worse. It's literal torment every day. Only Klonopin makes it bearable, but can't use that everyday bc its extremely addictive and will cause rebound anxiety.

Oddly, laying on my stomach helps sometimes.

This is VERY similar to what i have been experiencing for over a year now. At first i thought that it would be just for a few days and then it would "eventually go away" but it didn't and i'm still stuck with this.

It just makes life ten times harder whenever i'm going through it

Since i barely ever talk to anyone in real life and the people i'm close to always tend to ignore me.

I've been trying to talk to other people about this but not a lot of people can relate to this shortness of breath thing.

I've been dealing with this on my own for so long now that I've gotten used to it. I know it's bad to get used to the feeling of not being able to breathe properly because obviously in an ideal world i'd like to be able to breathe normally and function like a normal human being again.

I remember the first time i've ever experienced it, i felt this sharp pain in my stomach. Just randomly out of nowhere and then that was when it all began. I remember i was eating pizza and then after that i felt really bloated which is quite strange and then that was when the bloating started. Maybe it could be a nutrition thing or how you eat. I sometimes get so paranoid about it especially back then when i was first experiencing it.

Some nights i barely get any sleep. Ever since the pandemic i've felt like my whole life have turned upside down with anxiety and the inability to breathe.

Talking about it really helps a lot. So i'm extremely thankful that forums such as these exist.

Things went downhill for me when i had my first ever panic attack which happened last year and that was one of THE most terrifying nights of my life. Ever since that day things have been different for me in terms of how i was always feeling on edge but then i remember getting a caffeine withdrawal and i believe that it triggered my anxiety level even more because i remember at the time i couldn't even sleep for 4 day straight. It was BAD. I've tried my best to try to remain calm but sometimes i don't know how to and a lot of the time i just feel like i'm going out of control and what makes things even worse is how i barely even have anyone to talk to about this because i remember last year i was craving for human interaction in the hope that maybe i would feel a lot better, it did kind of help me but then i went back to feeling really lonely and depressed. I've literally never had that feeling before, the fact that i couldn't breathe was such a new experience for me and when it happened to me i immediately freaked out, i remember i would try to vent to my family but of course they didn't really get me and they would say things such as "stop overreacting" or "stop complaining" and my dad would always tell me to just "go outside and get some fresh air" while i know that it would have been helpful for me, i was also going through a really tough time mentally, it felt like this anxiety was paralyzing me in the bed, i felt stuck and when you tell people those things, they don't really get it, they just look at you like you're crazy which sucks. But i've been trying to really rely on myself on these times of crisis. A part of me really wants to get better because that's what i really need but then another part of me just wants to give up since i have been feeling like this for a long time now, for over a year. Perhaps meds might help me, who knows?

Sorry if this is too long, just really needed to vent right now 😂

Yes i get that feeling i have it now plus my stomach bothers me too

Your adrenaline is through the roof . Let the meds work .

The breathlessness is the self preservation kicking in. That's how we run from danger's . It serves our selves to keep us alive ,only problem is it doesn't know when to shut off. I promise you if you'll just concentrate day to day on slow breathing techniques it does help.