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

Hi 

I to suffer with anxiety ,I,ve been having a few over the past few weeks due to circumstances,but yep the past 2 days I,ve had constant shortness of breath its scaring me as I,m afraid its something awful ,I really want it to go now 

Hey G. mommy: I didn't think anyone else had this problem.  I have asthma and thought that was all it was.  Just got off of meds amoxicillin and prednisone and the shortness of breath is back again!  Its been 10 years for me ...I understand.  As you said, its sort of off and on depending on what you are focused on. If you focus on it, its 10 times worse!!  If you feel weak and tired cause you can't sleep too good...it's worse!!  Being overweight or having sleep apnea or a out of whack RBC count can all be factors.  If someone figures this out soon, I'll let you know.  Kent

I am actually going through similar and I may have found my answer. I'm 27 years old and have had anxiety and depression for years. For the last few months I have been experiencing this trouble breathing and figured it out today. I was prescribed a med for my anxiety and also to help me sleep. What my aprn didn't tell me was that it can cause trouble breathing. It is a med that is supposed to relax you and affects the central nervous system in order to do so. So though rare, it can cause some respiratory depression. I started this med a few month ago and never had this breathing issue so severe where I feel like my throat is closing. It doesn't happen all the time but when it does happen, its scary and usually when Im relaxed like watching TV or laying down. Now I have suffered panic attacks before but this is different. This is more troublesome and I know my body. My aprn won't like it but I will be seeing her soon and telling her to decrease this med and eventually, Im going to have to be taken off it. The time frame I took the medicine matches up with the time frame of my shortness of breath spells. Im not sure what's causing everyone else's shortness of breath, but maybe see if it indeed is the medications and definitely talk talk talk to your medical professionals. I had to look for a while to find one that decently seemed to really care about my health enough to listen to me. I hope we all get relief soon.

Hi I have had the same problem for the past 5 days now. I went to the ER they did an xray of my arm and a CT with contrast scan on both my arm and lungs along with urine sample,blood work and a EKG and everything was said to come back normal the only thing they found was that I had an old fracture in my left wrist lol But the shortness of breath is still bothering me.They even checked to make sure I didn't have any blood clots.I did however take some one on here's advice and submerged my face in freezing cold water, and it has actually helped along with putting calming wave sounds on my phone from YouTube I hope this helps yo Anxiety suck. Goodluck!!

Hello, hope you are feeling a little better!

Ahhh people, i cant anymore. I am having a feeling of not being able to breathe for 5 days now non stop. I am tired, i am sleepy all the time, i yawn 60 times a day trying to catch my breath. And to make it worse, i have no relaxing meds, since i am in a different country until Monday. 

I get scared it is smtg with my lungs, but i have made a lung check up few months ago, and it was all perfect - xrays, spriometry, heart all okay. I also went to er multiple times. I dont know how to relax myself anymore. I dont know how to help myself breathe better.😢Every time i breathe i feel like its not enough, and when i do breathe in deep enough, i have shooting pains in my ribs and lungs.. which is changing positions.. and which makes me really scared.

I had depression but I made it worse than I can physically handle being only 15. Here's my story, I stole weed from a family member smoked it and got extremely high after around four hits I was obviously scared because I've been smoking daily since my later months of being 14 and never tripped like this so obviously I over thought every possible scenario an while being high still I came to the conclusion my weed had to have been laced so u started googling multiple things and symptoms to see if I really did smoke laced weed, I ended up coming onto a website about Castor bean which is an extremely poisonous seed that is laced in multiple drugs and it look dead on like the seed the was in my weed I was unsure if I packed a seed in when I was smoking so I was severely scared (panick attack at its finest) obviously I couldn't tell anybody because I'm not allowed to smoke and I stole it from a member I live with (karma😂 but anyways I was having all the symptoms that you were supposed to if you smoked or ate the bean which it said if inhaled or digested you would have no more than a week to live after a week you were fine so I smoked at 1am on Sunday and started experiencing the trip or panick attack around 2:30 which is when the seed was supposed to take effect an hour to 3 days after exposure to the bean so as you can tell me being only 15 I was scared for my life and waiting to see if I would live or die for an entire week!! The main reasons I was convinced it was laced is because the weed seed and castor been seed looked identical and after I wasn't high anymore I was still tripping because of the server panick attack so I went the whole week without sleeping being able to eat tripping all day and feeling like absolute sh*t everyday the got closer to the end of the week I was more and more scared thinking death could take me at any moment for however much longer I had until I was fine so I brought severe stress depression and anxiety to myself (this was no more than a month ago so the symptoms aren't faded too much) now I barely have any motivation everything I do I overthink death is on my mind like I have a tattoo of the word across my eyeballs and all together everything I do I see death in. Before I seen a beautiful future and life for my self and now I see nothing but depression and anxiety my life's gone completely down hill from that thanks for reading my story this is the first time I've opened up to anyone or anything about it. (Oh and I meant to add while I was having the panick attack for the whole week I had extreme shortness of breath heart racing like Nass cars ALL day stomach, abdominal were in pain and on top of that I had diarrhea (which was a symptom of the poisonous seed) so if you think you have had it bad look back onto my story not knowing if my life was over or not being so young minded

Im 18 and had really severe constant breathing difficulties for the past month, it gets so bad whilst I'm eating that i can't finish a meal anymore and tend to not eat much anymore. my heart has been checked and given the all clear many times, my doctor prescribed 10mg celexa but ive been too scared to try it, can someone whose tried it tell me if it works for panic attacks and breathing difficulties

Hi I’ve been experiencing sob since May put of the blue. It’s really scary I feel like I can’t get a hold of my breathing. I almost feel helpless. I’ve gone to the emergency room several times. I’ve had x-rays bloodwork CT scans all negative.  Negative as far as looking for a specific diagnosis related to shortness of breath. I try listening to calming anxiety type music. I do suffer from asthma but only one induced by flu, so just having the sob is scaring the crap outta me. I’m taking my nebulizer with albuterol it helps, or  I don’t know if it’s in my mind that it’s helping.  I’m taking Xanax as a last resort I do not like taking it daily. I do not want to rely on medication. I want to find the root cause of my diagnosis. I hate when the emergency room physicians say you have anxiety or you’re stressed. It’s the most common thing for them to say to get you out the door. Rather than doing some testing they can potentially Be able to show her a bigger problem that can be treated. That’s what scares me. Praying and hoping, that there isn’t an underlying had an issue going on. Praying that everyone is OK on this discussion board. I am new here so thanks for listening. 

Holy smokes..no...you are not the only one going thru it. Its really dibilitating. The more attention you pay to it, the worse the shortness of breath gets. You somehow have to "redirect" your thinking after of course you have had a physical with the doctor and all is well there. Excess weight doesn't help either! If I sit in a chair because I have a fat stomach, its much worse. If I take my inhaler too much because I'm thinking its asthma, that can make me more anxious.

Redirecting your thoughts or in other words, getting your mind and body into an activity you love to do will help a lot. The hard part is that you would rather try and figure out whats happening and that again makes the tsunami even bigger. I'm speaking from 20 years of going thru it. You have to learn strategies! Blessings, Kent