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Constant Urge to Take Deep Breaths
Hi,
For the last week I've had a constant urge to take deep breaths, and fill my lungs so that they feel stretched. The breath gives minor satisfaction, but then the urge returns.
Sometimes, I feel like I need to yawn, but the yawns are not satisfying like they should be. I don't have any problems breathing, nor do I have any other symptoms, like coughing, raspiness or wheezing. Just this persistent urge to breathe deeply.
A lot of posts I've seen on related symptoms seem to think this is anxiety, but I really don't think that I have a lot of anxiety right now.
Any ideas?
This discussion is related to urgency to take deep breaths.
For the last week I've had a constant urge to take deep breaths, and fill my lungs so that they feel stretched. The breath gives minor satisfaction, but then the urge returns.
Sometimes, I feel like I need to yawn, but the yawns are not satisfying like they should be. I don't have any problems breathing, nor do I have any other symptoms, like coughing, raspiness or wheezing. Just this persistent urge to breathe deeply.
A lot of posts I've seen on related symptoms seem to think this is anxiety, but I really don't think that I have a lot of anxiety right now.
Any ideas?
This discussion is related to urgency to take deep breaths.
Hi, This is what I found on internet
Alex Hanna, lives in Greensboro, NC
Answered September 11, 2018
I’m not sure if ur question was answered. But I have experienced the CONSTANT urge for this deep breath and stretch that comes back almost immediately after satisfying it and also the feeling of even needing to constantly be in a certain position to even take a deep breath. This can be caused by Overworking or over stretching your interior muscles between the ribs and lungs and also the Diaphragm - Filtro Pressa it is not easily caused but happens. The only reason I know about this is bc it was fairly scary when it happened to me. This can also be caused by the following…. maintaining hunched stretched position involving reaching and lift the trap muscles. The way to fix this is as follows. Find the stretch position or just take a deep breath and stretch… hole your arms out and up and move in all directions as well as turning your head in different directions until you find the most resistance and hold for 20 sec at a time as it takes 15 sec for muscles to get past the point that they will return to their improper postition. This is often caused by use of stimulants bc of staying in positions that are more tense than necessary and or spine and posture/work related issues. Use of a foam roller and holding stretches that make you feel “satisfied” will help. Try and be very aware of your posture and stretch every day. Be sure to massage deeply underneath your shoulder blades. This can be done with an angled foam roller or by leaning against a wall with a massage ball between your back and the wall and take time and find the areas that are troublesome and trust me u will know when u find them. It will be slightly to fairly painful but satisfying. I hope this helps
Alex Hanna, lives in Greensboro, NC
Answered September 11, 2018
I’m not sure if ur question was answered. But I have experienced the CONSTANT urge for this deep breath and stretch that comes back almost immediately after satisfying it and also the feeling of even needing to constantly be in a certain position to even take a deep breath. This can be caused by Overworking or over stretching your interior muscles between the ribs and lungs and also the Diaphragm - Filtro Pressa it is not easily caused but happens. The only reason I know about this is bc it was fairly scary when it happened to me. This can also be caused by the following…. maintaining hunched stretched position involving reaching and lift the trap muscles. The way to fix this is as follows. Find the stretch position or just take a deep breath and stretch… hole your arms out and up and move in all directions as well as turning your head in different directions until you find the most resistance and hold for 20 sec at a time as it takes 15 sec for muscles to get past the point that they will return to their improper postition. This is often caused by use of stimulants bc of staying in positions that are more tense than necessary and or spine and posture/work related issues. Use of a foam roller and holding stretches that make you feel “satisfied” will help. Try and be very aware of your posture and stretch every day. Be sure to massage deeply underneath your shoulder blades. This can be done with an angled foam roller or by leaning against a wall with a massage ball between your back and the wall and take time and find the areas that are troublesome and trust me u will know when u find them. It will be slightly to fairly painful but satisfying. I hope this helps
Do you feel short of breath ? Or laboured breathing ? & you think one day you are better only for the same symptoms to come back ?
I am 38 years old female and I have been having this issue for 3 months now. I have tried so many things. Some worked shortly and some not at all.
First I want to explain that I see this issue half physical and half psychological. Maybe some physical trigger gets you in place that you are not able to take breath and brain starts obsessing on it and makes symptom worse.
I will try to explain my taught process and stuff I tried and hope it will help someone.
1) Check yourself physically. Even if its anxiety, once a doctor makes all tests and says you have healthy lungs/heart/digestive system it will help in times when you will not be able to breathe and you will be spiralling down taught something is seriously wrong with you. You can pull doctor tests and look at them, until you feel secure you are healthy. Of course if tests are not good then it's not a "mental" blockage.
My pulmologyst said that I have a lot of gas build up and that they might be pushing diaphragm-a and shortening my breath, so I will look into that.
If you can sleep and when your brain is not awake you don't have this issue, its probably not connected to your physical health but mental.
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2) If you still are not convinced - as I wasn't I got myself oximeter. You can get them on amazon - https://www.amazon.com/Santamedical-Generation-SM-165-Fingertip-Saturation/dp/B00R59OTOC/ref=sr_1_1_sspa?keywords=pulse+oximeter&qid=1557067280&s=gateway&sr=8-1-spons&psc=1
and anytime you feel that there is not enough oxygen in your body you can measure oxygenation and heartbeat. You will probably see ( if its not medical issue ) that your oxygen levels are normal ( around 97 ). And your hear-beat as well, as it does not need to beat super fast to send oxygen to body. If these numbers are not well, go back to step 1. If they are measure them as many time as you need to feed your brain evidence that you are receiving enough oxygen and all is well.
------
That being said I understood that its not oxigen my body is looking for. And I understood that deep breath is not same as breath that "stretches" body that I am looking for. So I taught if my body needs stretching I gave it exercise:
3) Yoga + Cycling. Yoga because it stretches very inch of body and pushes you in breathing patterns so helps you open your throat and puts you in poses that are pushing breathing in line with body. And cardio I took just because i read in many article that cardio helps easing anxiety. Sometimes immediately after exercise I could breath normally sometimes not.
4) Reverse psychology. I started to push-myself NOT to take yawning/forced deep breaths for 5 minutes of time. So I would set up a timer on my app to ring every 5 minutes. Once timer started I would say to myself - 5 minutes without deep breath is normal. Once clock rings you will start to worry about taking it. So in the beginning I would deep "shallow/normal" and would just watch the watch and think I will not be able to make it. And yet after 5 minutes +/-15 seconds the deep breath came naturally. If it didn't, I would just set up ringer for next 5 minutes, and would say ok, 5 more minutes its also ok. In the meantime it would happen. Once this satisfactory breath occurred I reset timer again to 5 minutes. After an hour or so, I would just start to snooze it, and continued my activity without being involved in measuring and breathing came to mostly normal. Later I prolonged timer to 10 minutes and in few days I didn't measure anymore.
This method ( connected with all above ) made biggest difference. I think its due to fact that you postpone your worry in 5 minutes, and you have timer that will remind you to worry but just bit later. Just few minutes of relief and each success-full breath pushes you in direction of relaxation that helps you not to obsess and just breathe.
----
5) Few extra tips:
To my daily routine I added 5-10 min of meditation, relaxation and exercises of belly breathing/phrana breathing while watching tv or in my car. Fix your posture while sitting and standing that can help air flow better. Girls stop pulling your belly in to make it looks smaller, that can also be cause of lack of space in abdomen. Also buy broader braw or loose it - as it also gives constrains to expansion fo ribs while breathing. I also got some crystal stones for throat and heart chakra (??), I mean It cant hurt :)
----
6) I also went to psychotherapist - he told me I do not have anxiety disorder rather bunch of emotions overflowing me, and once those are settled that breathing would be ok. That didn't help me much in my day to day breathing at all :).
I hope this will help someone. Do not expect it to be gone in a day. I think this condition we unconsciously develop trough years and once its triggered it becomes real issue and stops you from enjoying life. I am still on ups and down struggle depending on each day, but I built myself arsenal of possibilities I can try in moments I feel this issue and I feel the symptom much less.
So I propose to combine any method that helps at least a bit and incorporate in daily pattern.
Here are few videos that really helped me get better insight:
https://youtu.be/4Lb5L-VEm34
https://youtu.be/DZZ2lQ9mdKI
https://youtu.be/4zhDsbZZ4ZU
https://youtu.be/395ZloN4Rr8
First I want to explain that I see this issue half physical and half psychological. Maybe some physical trigger gets you in place that you are not able to take breath and brain starts obsessing on it and makes symptom worse.
I will try to explain my taught process and stuff I tried and hope it will help someone.
1) Check yourself physically. Even if its anxiety, once a doctor makes all tests and says you have healthy lungs/heart/digestive system it will help in times when you will not be able to breathe and you will be spiralling down taught something is seriously wrong with you. You can pull doctor tests and look at them, until you feel secure you are healthy. Of course if tests are not good then it's not a "mental" blockage.
My pulmologyst said that I have a lot of gas build up and that they might be pushing diaphragm-a and shortening my breath, so I will look into that.
If you can sleep and when your brain is not awake you don't have this issue, its probably not connected to your physical health but mental.
------
2) If you still are not convinced - as I wasn't I got myself oximeter. You can get them on amazon - https://www.amazon.com/Santamedical-Generation-SM-165-Fingertip-Saturation/dp/B00R59OTOC/ref=sr_1_1_sspa?keywords=pulse+oximeter&qid=1557067280&s=gateway&sr=8-1-spons&psc=1
and anytime you feel that there is not enough oxygen in your body you can measure oxygenation and heartbeat. You will probably see ( if its not medical issue ) that your oxygen levels are normal ( around 97 ). And your hear-beat as well, as it does not need to beat super fast to send oxygen to body. If these numbers are not well, go back to step 1. If they are measure them as many time as you need to feed your brain evidence that you are receiving enough oxygen and all is well.
------
That being said I understood that its not oxigen my body is looking for. And I understood that deep breath is not same as breath that "stretches" body that I am looking for. So I taught if my body needs stretching I gave it exercise:
3) Yoga + Cycling. Yoga because it stretches very inch of body and pushes you in breathing patterns so helps you open your throat and puts you in poses that are pushing breathing in line with body. And cardio I took just because i read in many article that cardio helps easing anxiety. Sometimes immediately after exercise I could breath normally sometimes not.
4) Reverse psychology. I started to push-myself NOT to take yawning/forced deep breaths for 5 minutes of time. So I would set up a timer on my app to ring every 5 minutes. Once timer started I would say to myself - 5 minutes without deep breath is normal. Once clock rings you will start to worry about taking it. So in the beginning I would deep "shallow/normal" and would just watch the watch and think I will not be able to make it. And yet after 5 minutes +/-15 seconds the deep breath came naturally. If it didn't, I would just set up ringer for next 5 minutes, and would say ok, 5 more minutes its also ok. In the meantime it would happen. Once this satisfactory breath occurred I reset timer again to 5 minutes. After an hour or so, I would just start to snooze it, and continued my activity without being involved in measuring and breathing came to mostly normal. Later I prolonged timer to 10 minutes and in few days I didn't measure anymore.
This method ( connected with all above ) made biggest difference. I think its due to fact that you postpone your worry in 5 minutes, and you have timer that will remind you to worry but just bit later. Just few minutes of relief and each success-full breath pushes you in direction of relaxation that helps you not to obsess and just breathe.
----
5) Few extra tips:
To my daily routine I added 5-10 min of meditation, relaxation and exercises of belly breathing/phrana breathing while watching tv or in my car. Fix your posture while sitting and standing that can help air flow better. Girls stop pulling your belly in to make it looks smaller, that can also be cause of lack of space in abdomen. Also buy broader braw or loose it - as it also gives constrains to expansion fo ribs while breathing. I also got some crystal stones for throat and heart chakra (??), I mean It cant hurt :)
----
6) I also went to psychotherapist - he told me I do not have anxiety disorder rather bunch of emotions overflowing me, and once those are settled that breathing would be ok. That didn't help me much in my day to day breathing at all :).
I hope this will help someone. Do not expect it to be gone in a day. I think this condition we unconsciously develop trough years and once its triggered it becomes real issue and stops you from enjoying life. I am still on ups and down struggle depending on each day, but I built myself arsenal of possibilities I can try in moments I feel this issue and I feel the symptom much less.
So I propose to combine any method that helps at least a bit and incorporate in daily pattern.
Here are few videos that really helped me get better insight:
https://youtu.be/4Lb5L-VEm34
https://youtu.be/DZZ2lQ9mdKI
https://youtu.be/4zhDsbZZ4ZU
https://youtu.be/395ZloN4Rr8
Unfortunately I was dealing with the same issue. Turns out I'm in the stages of COPD. And that sucks. At times I will gasp for air. I yawn all the time I'm just a mess.
Check mitochondrial issues... seems like you are needing extra O2 for your etc
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For your etc?
Electron transport chain... the O2 picks up the electrons and protons to form h20 and atp( energy)... I'd see a neurogeneticist, biochemical geneticist or mitochondrial specialist
Hi,
I’ve had this problem for the last few days now, Most of my breaths are unsatisfying and every once in a while I’ll have ONE good breath. The moment I noticed I was laying on my couch watching YouTube (nothing stressful about that). The first few moments after waking up I can take a few breaths but after that until I go to bed I am struggling. I’ve been to the hospital, had blood work, ct scan and x-ray for blood clots all come back normal so the doctors tell me this is anxiety and I’ve just worked myself up. At this point yes, I am stressed because I FEEL as though I am not getting enough air even though oxygen levels are normal.
I am 21 and I am very scared at this point. If anyone has found something that helps please let me know, thank you.
I’ve had this problem for the last few days now, Most of my breaths are unsatisfying and every once in a while I’ll have ONE good breath. The moment I noticed I was laying on my couch watching YouTube (nothing stressful about that). The first few moments after waking up I can take a few breaths but after that until I go to bed I am struggling. I’ve been to the hospital, had blood work, ct scan and x-ray for blood clots all come back normal so the doctors tell me this is anxiety and I’ve just worked myself up. At this point yes, I am stressed because I FEEL as though I am not getting enough air even though oxygen levels are normal.
I am 21 and I am very scared at this point. If anyone has found something that helps please let me know, thank you.
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