Ok do it,let a second opinion help you.

For a couple of weeks now I have been overly concerned with my breathing and sometimes feeling like I couldn't get enough air in my lungs.

I finally went into the er yesterday. The hooked me up to all sorts of monitors, took a chest x-ray, an ekg, took blood, etc, etc.

The doc said he thought it anxiety related and diet related. I have been stressed-out about my health for several months now and my body is starting to react to the anxiety. This breathing thing is likely just another way my body is saying, "chill out! I can't handle this much stress."

if you are feeling a tightness in your chest and like you can fill your lungs, drive to the local er or urgent care. The doc I talked to said I wasn't over-reacting and it's good to be sure.

Hi, I have been having the same sypmtoms. Usually they come on and only last a few weeks and then go away. But this time I have had them constantly for weeks now. I did go to the doctor because I was getting a little worried. I also think they must be anxiety even though I can't think of anything I am overly anxious about. But she said I have the classic signs of anemia. I was happy, because this would explain why I felt tired all the time too (though it was just because I was exhausted at end day from trying to get air). But my hemiglobin and red cell count came back completly normal. So now what. I was told to see if it goes away and if not, try a chest Xray. I have not gone in for an xray because I just don't think that my heart is the problem. I guess I am going to try and live with it and hope it goes away soon. I do notice that the yawning is usually triggered more after I take a walk or do something. When I lay down at night to go to bed, it takes about 20 minutes but then the urge to yawn goes away until morning. It is driving me nuts too. I hold my mouth open, try to get that big, satisfying suck of air but it just doesn't come. It does eventually come after i try and try, my eyes start to water and I feel a little tight in the chest, then the big air suck comes and I feel good until it starts all over again. I am keeping a journal trying to see if something in my life it triggering this. If it gets worse I guess I will have to check my heart out (but i feel healthy and don't really think it is my heart). Try to count to 10 or recite the alphabet when yawning. For some reason, this seems to get my mind off trying to get the air and I usually do get the air. Good luck.

i have had the same symtoms as you all and have been prescribed beta blockers which have helped

Count me in too. Have had this for years and its driving me nuts. Had so many tests and everything came back as normal. Cant sleep now always short of breath and yes the yawning is the only way to get enough air for me.

I feel exactly the same, started a few days ago and it's driving me mad. I keep telling myself it's only anxiety and to chill out but I think it's all in my subconscious.
The only relief I get is when I'm asleep. If I still have this in a few days I'm gonna go see a doctor.

I, too, have had this for over a week. I had it about 6 months ago,and it just seemed to disappear. I first felt it 10 days ago. I was lying in bed and all of a sudden I felt a wave of anxiety come over me. I couldn't fall asleep that night, and the next day is when I noticed the breathlessness. I had an echocardiogram done 9 months ago and my heart is fine. So, I am thinking it's anxiety. I find myself clenching my shoulders and I need to force myself to relax my muscles.

I'm exactly going through the same symptoms as mentioned in the very first email. I used to get irritated and even more worried when the doctors said that this is just because of anxiety, after all the tests showed normal results.

Only yesterday during a prayer meeting, I came to believe after hearing from few of the other friends that they have gone through similar experience and this could be just related to anxiety.

Please read through

http://www.derbyshirecountypct.nhs.uk/cont ent/Health psychology service/Microsof t Word - Breathlessness and Anxi ety.pdf

I hope it will be a blessing for you as much as it has been for me.

May God Bless!

You couldn't post any closer to exactly what I am feeling. I have had all the test as well and everything comes back fine. Please let me know if you feel better and what helped so I can know what works and how much longer does this last.

They claim that this is a form of OCD and for us wit hit we cant stop "obsessing about it" and we are constantly aware and testing our ability to take a deep breath. The Body knows when to do this and we must make an effort to stop thinkin aboutit, keep busy, relax and know it will go away if we keep busy....

I was told to take Lexapro to help with my mind constantly focusing in on it, I was convinced I had something physical but the other day I had a problem at work and I started obsessing about that, and wouldnt you know it, after about an hour, I realized I was breathing fine then became aware again and its "back"

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One important thing to remember is that there are no "classic" anxiety symptoms. Everybody's different and everybody reacts to anxiousness and stress in different ways too. While there are certainly some common symptoms that many people have with anxiety attacks, there's no right or wrong way to have one and there's no one path that it takes.

Anxiety attacks play on the body's fears and the body's intentions. It revs the body up, trying to get things moving so that it can help combat whatever you think you're "afraid of." It's a fight or flight response gone extreme, basically, and the best way out is to stop running and stop fighting. It's hard to do because it's against your very nature, but it's important to remind yourself that your symptoms are healthy and normal when the body is trying to bail itself out of what it perceives as trouble.

You're not crazy, you're not having a heart attack, and you're not dead yet. Remember that anxiety is helpful and that it, in right circumstances, can save your life by moving blood and energy around where it is needed.

Your throat more than likely closes up to give your body more control over oxygen intake, thus delivering the right stuff to the right places as needed. Try to remain calm and don't gulp air (that's why yawning is). Instead, try to breathe slowly through your nose as much as you can and hold that breath for about four or five seconds. Release it slowly. Rinse. Wash. Repeat.

Most importantly of all: try to remain calm. You aren't going to die or run out of oxygen or faint. It's part of the body's normal reaction to the stresses it thinks it's enduring. Keep cool and everything will come up aces.

Alex F... dont give up... I have had the same thing for 4 years now... and finally I am starting to get somewhere... I am not a doctor... but it does sound to me like dust / your allegies are playing their part in your condition... mucus seems to be my problem, but why I am getting it I still do not know. (and I cannot clear it thus I think is reason for my breathlessness). There are good tips on google though, and the gargling salt one seems to help as does showering every day, instead of bath.... One question... has anyone ever noticed a funny noise when they breath in and out... from the diaphram... I thought it was a gurgling tummy, but apparently it is a rubbing of the chest cavity or something like that (similar to when you have a chest infection) I get it on the bottom left of my ribs. It is the first thing my doctor has actually heard that he now knows it is just not all in my mind... it is sooo irritating that people call breathing problems alone, anxiety / stress... I would love to see them experience it.... how many people in life would not get anxious if stuggling to breath! Granted, anxiety caused by the physical problem is not nice, but being stuck on depression medication as a solution to me is not the answer... eg the lungs are a sponge and not a muscle... so yes the anziety medication may help but only because it is relaxing your airways in the same way steroids do etc... if you dont want a lifetime of depression medication then keep pushing for doctors to find out the causes.. eg think of questions to ask him / her... what exactly is causing my breathlessness? eg if anxiety alone, how is that creating the breathless... what exactly does being anxious do in terms of causing your breathlessness... i think anyone with breathlessness as their main symptom, maywell be suffering with anxiety as well.. but it is not the diagnosis... I say dont give up and pray... it is working for me... just taking soooo much time to find out... I have had no time off work with it, and know I will get answers in end, and know it is nothing serious... just a real pain in the *** and embarrassing when you cannot talk properly because you are breathless, and breath in a funny way. Good luck, I wish everyone here could experience that thoughtless clear smooth breathing we once had one day maybe exercise is the key...

sorry to hear youre all suffering too. i satrted with every day shortness of breath about 2 weeks ago and it gets worse when i rush around or if im busy mentally which seems to be most of the time lol. im on thtyroxine and have been told to reduce it for two days each week, am also on homeopathy and i feel easy iron helps too. have also been on anti-depressants for years and am annoyed with what im going through now. im going to try meditation as it has helped me in the past. try every thing you can and dont give in , good luck