Shortness of breath terrified all the time!!
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What does everybody's shortness of breath feel like? I even feel really really out of breath even when I talk which worries the c**p out of me!
I wake up with it and go to sleep with it every night, I feel I have got to catch my breath every few minutes just to make sure I can get air into my lungs I have this like pulling sensation in the middle of my chest that makes me want to catch it every few minutes which dosnt go away at all which drives me barmy! Also feels like I have something lodged right in the middle of my chest that I'm breathing around awful feeling.
This all started after I had 2 full blown panic attacks 10 months ago and I woke up with all these crazy Symtoms the day after I had them is this normal?
Im on medication mitrazpine and propanolol which I'm thinking of changing the mitrazpine because I was on this while I had these attacks they put me on propanolol the day after I had these attacks 3 a day 40mg and I'm having CBT therapy.
My therapist says I should stop trying to catch my breath all the time as I'm feeding my anxiety but even when I try and stop doing it it will catch itself so I can't win which makes me think there is something wrong with my breathing!
I have tried breathing exercises which don't help. I have had a X-ray which was all good and 3 ECGs which were good and chest lisend to and oxygen levels tested to everytime I'm are the doctors which is always good, I just just can't take this no more!
I feel I'm on the brink here I can't live like this another day😢 Is this ever going to go away? or am I going to feel like this forever I feel trapped in my own body.
I posted this about ten minutes ago but I think it has been deleted for some reason nevermind.
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charliette34697 luke08690
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hello all , so frustrating !! feel the exsact same some days are harder than others all tho my gagging for air is easing off i still constantly feel shakey and a bit spaced out and like this wired butterfly feeling in my hart its driving me insane i keep thinking theres something wrong with my hart like its beating to fast then to slow always panicks me im on anti depressents . recently changed and my mind is always setting me off thinking my harts gonna stop or something so scary ! as soon as im asleep it dosnt bother me tho but i have trubble makimg myself sleep ive had anxiouty for maybe 3 months nevee had it before ! and sometimes i have this wired feeling in the bottom off my throught like something is in there !! i have bean in hopsital last week over it has my hart rate was to hight but when down after a while and eveeything was normal my sugar bloods .. HELP
Mich_1987 charliette34697
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You need a good psy and some meds and you will be fine in no time!
Stay strong and at first try to share your feeling with a good friend that can understand and listen.
Trust me there is nothing wrong with you! If all your test are fine, it's in your head.
Don't be afraid of meds because they will help you to get your old life back!
Breathhelp Mich_1987
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What meds dod you take that stopped the shortness of breath to get your life back?
Greengumdrop luke08690
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i get shortness of breath too sometimes when im anxious
anita23823 luke08690
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Hi guys, I posted here about two months ago and to be honest, although I'm not as bad as I was when it first started, my symptoms have not gone away entirely and it's still very hard for me. Has anyone found any relief? I was diagnosed with GERD but idk if that's really the cause. All my doctors are now saying it's anxiety, but my therapy sessions haven't been helping much...
hellofriend22 anita23823
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hey, have you found relief yet by chance? ive been the same too
anita23823 hellofriend22
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Hi! Yes I did, I got on antidepressants, it must've been anxiety (I found it very hard to believe) And I also take iron supplements for slightly low ferritin
emma888 luke08690
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I too feel like this all the time, I've had it around 15 months, been back and forth to the doctors, hospital accident and emergency when it was particularly bad, I'm waiting for physio to teach me how to breathe properly, not sure that's the answer, I have also started taking cbd to see if that helps, its still early days with that
hellofriend22 emma888
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has it helped? hope youre doing better, this breathing issue is really stressfull and draining
Roniii29 emma888
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I've also had it for awhile. ove a year and a half. I have had every test possible. still going to doctors and getting 2nd opinions because I just don't believe it can be nothing. if it were nothing I wouldn't be going to the doctor. how are you?
hellofriend22 luke08690
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has anyone found any answers and does it get bad enough that you feel you have to visit the ER?
hellofriend22 luke08690
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has anyone found any answers and does it get bad enough that you feel you have to visit the ER?
megan234 luke08690
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so...
i'm a young person with anxiety (31)... i have had anxiety for about 8 years now. NOT fun.
i DO get shortness of breath which is crazy because i work out normally and am physically fit. i HAVE had my heart checked but it was after a surgery, my body was really out of whack... i started getting some shortness of breath and i actually think mine is real because i have been allergic to SOMETHING. not sure what. they are currently ordering some allergy tests for me and i've been taking zyrtec.. i did OK on the spirometry test for the most part they said but it wasn't perfect... never had asthma before and not sure that i have it right now. just some irritation.
The reality is it could just be some irritation or GERD.. it could also just be in your head... all i can say is that YOU CAN MAKE SYMPTOMS IN YOUR HEAD!!!! PLEASE TAKE IT FROM ME.... i am very direct, straight forward, and honest... I would NOT lie.. not a medical professional but if the dr is telling you that you are OK... just TRUST that... sometimes what helps me is to think of all the times i thought i was dying or had an issue and how it all turned out fine. i hold onto that and it helps me a lot to know that "this won't last forever"
breathing is EVERYTHING to a person with anxiety so it isn't unusual that we would FEAR losing that ability. just breathe...
argyllsox luke08690
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Hi I am on Mirtazipine 30 mg and slow release Propranonol 80mg for Anxiety, for 4 weeks now, the Propranonol helps with the fast heartbeat etc, plus Bp was high so this lowers it also.
Not sure if the Mirtazipine is going to benefit me, but need to be on it longer to see.
The breathing problem is Anxiety, I was experiencing this too, the Prop helps with this, slows the heartbeat down etc.
Not a pleasant condition Anxiety, it has so many different ways it can affect you.
hellofriend22 argyllsox
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the medication helped you then? with the breathing?