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Throat closes during exercise - anxiety?

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dip58448
dip58448

Hi,

Whenever I try to exercise and breathe through my mouth, the air gets stuck in my throat. It's like my throat tightens or closes when trying to get a deep breath in during exercise. It makes exercise not fun at all, and kind of scary. Afterwards, I get some chest tightness and lasting shortness of breath for hours. I tried an asthma inhaler, but it doesn't help much. My oxygen saturation is 97-98% when exercising, and after. It just feels awful, like I'm choking, with chest tightness. Anyone else get this as part of breathing symptoms of anxiety?

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  • aurora86047
    aurora86047 dip58448

    Posted

    Sounds like EIB. Do you have asthma or any kind of allergies?

    • dip58448
      dip58448 aurora86047

      Posted

      Thanks for the response Aurora. I used to have mild asthma and mild allergies as a child. The inhalers don't really make much difference for me though when I use them right now after exercise. And sometimes I'm short of breath all day! Not just with exercise. It is beyond frustrating.

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