Shortness of breath terrified all the time!!

ive been dealing with anxiety my entire life i know exactky how you feel i constantly over think and expect the worst i get shortness of breath to the point where i feel like im gonna pass out i keep an inhaler handy which helps i just got over covid that triggered my anxiety im still dealing with covid symptoms which are the same as anxiety . its very scary come out of nowhere i get woken up i had to give up my job because of them my son who is 27 suffers from them and now my daughter whos 12 . domt let them control your life like did

I had a stress meltdown a few months ago the pandemic and everything related was rough. I spent days 2 weeks going crazy, googling things because i was afraid a family member was going to die from cancer. It was for an absurd reason. They are fine.

shortly after I had shortness of breath hit me one morning . It was horrendous. I went to er twice. They found nothing wrong and nurses accused me of blowing it out of proportion and having mental problems. The doc was much nicer. Had xray, pft, blood tests for liver. All normal. Got better shortly after the pft result. This lasted about 2 wks.

Then I was fine for a month. Came back one evening, when I was worrying about stuff again. This time it has been 6 wks. Short of breath all day. Air hunger, yawing, I'm used to it now so I don't often panic about it. Only time I feel good is when I sleep. Had another pft, ekgs, treadmill test. All normal. Had 4 wks of chronic muscle twitching, tingling, itchy skin. Saw neurologist amd had emg. Normal.

I can exercise. I can run for miles. No big increase in sob, but still there. Not a limiting factor. Perhaps feel slightly better post. This makes me sound insane to doctors.It is almost embarrassing to say exercise might help a little.

I have gerd. meds have not taken sob away at all. I am lost. My pulm tells me I need to buy into the fact that i am fine. I just cannot accept it. I keep turning to google to cross the next bad thing off the list. ILD, heart failure, COPD, pulmonary hypertension, ALS. you name it, I've tried to eliminate it.

I am convinced I have something. My chest feels stiff when i breath. I have had some better days. Good weather helps a little. xanax helped a little when i had it. Lying down makes me feel better. I sleep like a baby with some help from Trazodone. i started some anxiety meds but ive noticed no benefit.

I dont know what is wrong with me, but i have soured relationship with my pcp over it and im worried my pulm is going to give up on me as well.. They want me to accept it as anxiety. I have never had sob in my life. i dont feel right or like it is anxiety. im pretty lost right now. i see a psychologist. i dont feel it helps at all.

i hate that nobody ever returns to tell us what worked for them. i hope they turned out well.

I feel like you are writing whats happening to me! i have been feeling short if breath for the past 8 months...

I feel like I have had all the tests done in the world.. all fine. Except they found out I have a whole in my heart which the cardiologist denies has anything to do with my shortness of breath.

I'm also at a low stress/anxiety point in my life. Dont know whats really causing this but its exhausting!

i have the same issue, if you want to talk. sometimes that helps

hey man im a 10 year old going through the same exact thing right now, im on 2months straight of feeling like i cant breathe from the time i wake up till i go to sleep

Mike,

I went to every doctor possible. Ive had so many tests as well. My general doctor and functional medicine doctor both said anxiety and stress caused my parasympathetic nervous system (flight and flight) to be dominate over my sympathetic nervous system (rest and digest). My blood tests due to my nervous system being out of control made my iron levels and vitamin d low so I am not on suppliments for that. It all first started with globus (a lump feeling in the throat) and then I had a few panic attacks that made me start to hyperventilate. Now 24/7 Im out of breath. I started anti-depressants just a few weeks ago. I hate medication but I was always crying from freling so upset about my body feeling so upcomfortable and always feeling like Ive just climbed up a tall hill, even when Im sitting. I also get a burning sensation on my arms and legs, a heavy feeling in my chest, a raspy feeling in my chest when I exhale. Im so scared bc its been over a year like this all the time.

How long did your symptoms last? Was it all the time or would it come and go? Other than difficulty with breathing, did you have any other symptoms? Did you feel like you were always out of breath like you just walked up a hill or did you feel air hunger like you couldnt get a deep breath in? Did you take medication? Go on a special diet or take supplements? Or did you literally do nothing?

I've had this on n off for.months and it freaks me out trying to get that satisfying breath in every few mins and when I csnt it panics me and makes me keep doing it until I get that decent breath. just started on citalopram yest hoping this helps as I suffer panic attacks and health anxiety . I've had chest xrays a chest scan ecg loads of blood taken all normal

i have the same problem all the time breathing problem for about 5 years everyday. its not go away just sometimes. but don't give up i done my x-ray today and also i think i have a asthma but my gp told me that's is not possible. i hate my life no one understand me . i have no one who can talk with me about it

hi guys

its still really awful tbh. iv had numerous tests namely

ecgs

exercise test

chest ct scan

all these tests are clear but the breathlessness is getting worse.

can any1 recommend any next steps for me please xxx

hi luke

no my review was over the phone an i had ny little girl so there was so much i forgot to ask.

iv suffered health anxiety in the past so i am not neive enough to thing it 100% isnt that however usually my anxiety follows a pattern and i have other symptoms and this has gone on now for a yr and in myself im absolutely fine.

hopefully it is anxiety and will just pass i suppose it would make sense to be suffering breathing anxiety given the pandemic etc.

what tests did u have xxx

I just came here to share my story and give you hope. I visited this forum 2 years ago with severe shortness of breath all the time. 5 years ago i got panic attacks, panic attacks stopped after 2 years but shortness of breath was there all the time. I visited every doctor, every forum and could not find answer. I suffered alot, it was like hell. How can you have shortness of breath 24/7 for 3 years? Yeah i heard anxiety can cause it, but i never believed it. I never believed that anxiety can cause such horrible physical and real symptom. But guys, i finally found relief, and now i dont have shortness of breath anymore. Now i believe that anxiety can cause every physical symtpoms and it can cause real and geninune shortness of breath.

I found relief after leaving my country, my comfort zone, i lived with my cousin in another country. Everything was new, new people, new city, new life. This new life made my mind busy all the time so i slowly forgot about my shortness of breath. I was getting less and less symptoms. And after one very busy day i realised that i didnt have any symptoms at all that day. So i slowly started to believe that my problem is mental not physical. Believing is the key. Well within 3 months i completely got rid off this annoying symptoms forever. I shared it to give you hope, if someone comes to this forum accidentally like i did 2 years ago, let them read my story and be happy.

YES ANXIETY CAN CAUSE SHORTNESS OF BREATH 24/7.

Good luck guys