Straining to complete yawn, yawning all day, feel i just need a deep breath.

[Cloefish]

I have had this problem for a long time, but in the last year it has gotten worse and I cant stand it.  I regularly go through periods where I feel the need to yawn or get a deep breath and I just cant. I try and try over and over to yawn (causing me to get head aches), and finally accomplish it just to need  to yawn again. I am a sleepy person all the time,  but  the  straining  to yawn thing  makes me  crazy! I also have increasingly bad short term memory problems (at only 25), could this be connected to the yawning, and lack of oxygen to the  brain? could I  have asthma?  thank you so much for any help you can give me.

[Cartoonhed]

I've suffered from this from time to time for years. I train in Muay Thai and it's physically draning on the old cardio, every so often I have a blow out on weed which usually ends up with me smoking cigarettes or rolling with tobacco.  I've just had a three week blowout and stopped two days ago and once again the " I can't get a full lung of air and I need to yawn syndrome has started again ", I couldn't even sleep last night because of it. The only way I've found to stop this is through strenuous cardio exercise,  it kills me doing it and admittedly I will rush of from training to be sick as a dog. Four weeks in and sickness subsided I'm back to normal. I personally think that mine is self induced as this happens a few times a year everyone I smoke and drink but I smoke non stop till I'm no longer getting a good buzz. I know a few people this happens to and they train and smoke. Funny thing is it doesn't happen if I carry on smoking weed so I assume it's much lungs trying to repair themselves?  Hope this helps anyway, EXERCISE cures most minds to a happy state......

[phagocyte]

I've delt with this hell for most of my life.  Exactly as described.  It only happens when I think about it so I assume it is probably some mental OCD.  I spent about 5 years of my life walking around in public with a big suction cup on my chest that I had rigged with a ***** pump to suck my chest out as I thought it was the only way I could get any relief.  Very embarrassing.  Anyway, I have finally found some relief in the past 5 years through exercise and getting into shape.  It started with just taking a long walk everyday but now I run and lift weights. I still have the problem but it's 90 percent better.   One other technique I've found that helps is to start fake coughing really hard until I start gagging.  That usually helps alleviate the problem for a bit until I can stop thinking about it.

[Robmorin00]

I have the same thing i went to my dr and was given a brethe test and i failed badly! I was sent to a pulmonary dr i was diagnosed with C.O.P.D STAGE3! its an un nerving thing to have...

[Boronqui]

I have the same problem. Dx.asthma. chest ct scan done.xrays.blood test. In advair and ventolin as needed..2 visit to ER ..have app for pulmonary test and stress test..asthma getting little by little better but constantly yawnimg id lucky every 10 min night time is worse..

[Tomcook]

Check your nostrils that you may have devoted septum

[Endergirl76YT]

I have this problem RIGHT NOW! I dunno if I have to yawn or just take a deep breath but every time I try it just feels like I need to take more and more deep breaths! Someone help because I feel literally that if I don't keep taking the deep breaths I will eventually not have enough oxgen and die! IT feels so weird everything I normal breathe it's like my lungs are telling me to keep heavy breathing? Is this a small problem or will I die! I must know because I'm always freaking out!

[ItsTheDoctor]

Don;t worry youre not dying trust me Ive had that feeling multiple times and have had it throughout this whole month. Its mostly just Anxiety and Panic attacks. Once you realize that you cant yawn well just take it easy and relax and listen to some smooth jazz or some music. But just make sure that you dont panic otherwise it will make it worse, not to the point of death, but to the point of severe annoyance. Take care! :D