Unique breathing symptoms

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Does anyone else feel like they're not inhaling properly and its not passing through their airways how it should? Almost like your only breathing through half your airway. Very hard to explain. Its NOT shortness of breath and not the inability to take a deep breath but its a constant sensation that wont go away and im struggling to manage it. I have no other symtoms, no cough or wheeze. I dont want to live anymore as im terrified all the time. Nothings worse than this. Had all relevant tests done and all came back normal. Doctor says is anxiety but ive tried every treatment and its not helped to ease it even at the slightest and i keep having the emergrncy services out because i fear im going to die. Anyone who has the same symptoms please reassure me. Im hopeless. Someone please help me

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    Amber Please get your doctor to help you, make him see how bad you feel, doctors really should sit up and take notice of anxiety because the symptoms are so real.

    I really didn't want to say this but this is why I am so concerned about you. My best friend was diagnosed with health anxiety a goodly few years ago, she swore blind she had a rare cancer, every single test on the planet was done, nothing. She eventually took her own life as she didn't want to be a burden on her family Extensive post mortem, she had no cancer, nothing, just a healthy young woman with 2 little kids, suffering from severe health anxiety, such a waste of a young life.

    Maybe a moderator will remove this, don't know.

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      im the exact same same health anxiety ive got a pain in my left shoulder diesnt hurt when im breathing nothing just when i move my arm etc or shout i have no fever no cough but im convinced uts the start of coronavirus petrafied im goin to fie and leave my two kids alone doctors really need to be helping ppl with health anxiety theough this time also as i know fir the next few months its alls im going to think ive got its making me ill worrying its been teo weeks xxxx sorry for blabbing on

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      Ive tried. No one can seem to help me. Theres nothing worse than this, I know in my gut theres something wrong and it just hasnt been detected. Im exhausted from it and what makes it worse is no one on these forums has symptoms I can relate too. Like im the only one who has this and its concerning like some mystery illness that is going to one day kill me. Im very sorry to hear about your friend. That saddens me very much

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      Your doctor needs to send you to experts who really know how to treat cases like yours but until you are willing to consider that your brains could have failed you and be wrong no one can help you, sorry to say

      Classic example of brain controlling body is anorexia, poor girl (usually a girl but can be a boy) sees this huge fat person in the mirror when in reality the figure in the mirror is on the point of death because they are so undernourished, the brain is controlling the eyes of the beholder, flat out telling lies.

      What I am trying desperately to get you to see that your brain is very probably controlling you and making you think that you are ill when you are not, anxiety can do this, killed my best friend there was nothing wrong with her.

      You need to see an expert that can see if your brains wiring has gone astray and is lying through its teeth to you, I know you truly believe that there is something wrong, not for a minute saying you are mad but it is highly possible that the brain is convincing you when all science says otherwise, machines and scientific tests don't lie.

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      Glad you can see that your problem is related to health anxiety, nasty vicious illness that it is.

      It is highly unlikely that you have Covid with those symptoms, sounds rather like frozen shoulder very painful but not at all life threatening.

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      I've been to experts, I've had therapy, i've had hypnotherapy, acupuncture, herbal remedies, anti depressants, seen psycologists, ive had all of it and nothing had helped. Ive exhausted all my options and have no hope left. I know there is something wrong that maybe the particular tests they have done just havent picked up. I dont want to feel this way any more and the respiratory symptoms that people have with anxiety are nothing like the ones I suffer with which confirms for me that its something physical rather than mental and no ones going to figure out what it is until im dead

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      Until you accept that your brain might be lying to you nothing any expert can say or do will work as you have already found out.

      I have an extremely rare combination of lung diseases, I was misdiagnosed for 5 years, BUT the machines did pick up that I had a problem just that nobody knew what, it seems I might be the only one in this country with this, so yes machines will find something if you have it.

      I can't just keep repeating myself that the brain is a very very strong thing and can convince some one that they have some thing deadly when they haven't, my dear departed friend for one, who was so convinced she was suffering from a rare unknown form of cancer, autopsy proved she was perfectly healthy, her mind was a liar, same with anorexics they mind tricks their eyes, into believing they are obese when wafer thin is the actuality

      Voodoo is another classic example of what the brain can do.

      Anxiety respiratory symptoms can vary from person to person.

      I am not going to just go round and round in the same circle it bring up too many horrible memories of my friend so all I can say is you need real professional help and you wont find it on the Internet. Good luck

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      but it doesnt make sense how it can be? Ive seen loads of cases where doctors get it wrong and the patient then dies.

      I dont feel as if it is a lung problem but another respiratory problem of some kind.

      No one listens to me.

      And i know it can manifest itself in different ways in different people but everyone who ive seen has relatively the same symptoms and I do not, so how can that be?

      I cant bare it

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      Doctors may get it wrong, they did with me, diagnosed with asthma but eventually got it right and I do have a life limiting set of rare conditions, the machines didn't lie.

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      So it could be wrong which is exactly what i've been saying, great

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      No the machines cannot be wrong your brain could be wrong is what I was saying but you don't want to hear that.

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    hi i get the same feeling like one side of my airways is closed i have mental health anxiety and paranoia my feeling of only half breathing is my asthma and my anxiety can make me think im breathing shallow or wrong so i get ice cold water yes with loads of ice cubes also a mentholated liquid drops or even just vicks put it in the bowl while adding the ice and cold water put a towel over your head and bowl and breath in then hold for five seconds and repeat for ten minutes but keep saying to yourself wow i feel so much clearer it works for me give it a go you never know

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      Is that when you inhale? and is it constant for you? I havent been diagnosed with asthma just anxiety and ive tried that before but with steam not ice

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      yes inhale through nose exhale through mouth slowly i did same with steam but never worked just made me panic you will cough a bit but try do this three times a day

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