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I don't breath right!!

i catch myself unconsciously holding my breath all the time.. and when i am breathing regularly , it's very shallow.. and i have to MAKe myself take deep breaths , which are very hard to do...i sometimes can't get air down into my lungs and feel like i'm suffocating, then i panic, and get dizzy! My Dr. told me that i had asthma, and i do have what i know to be  asthma attacks, and treat with an inhaler,which gets me air into my lungs at the moment, but then i go right back to the shalllow breathing.. but i'm not sure the 'holding the breath'  all the time thing i do is part of that? i wonder all the time if maybe the lethargy i have a LOT, and my fibromyalgia i was diagnosed with many years ago, are caused by me just not getting enough oxygen into my bloodstream and into my muscles and into my brain (causing poor memory and poor concentration , etc.??)...i've had a couple surgeries, where i was kept in longer after, because they said that my O2 Sats were too low, and it took a while for me to get to where they wanted me to be before releasing me....does any of this make any sense?...WHAT is wrong with me!!!??? I'M SOOO SICK of not feeling well, and being totally sapped of all energy all the time. Please help!





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Hey, I have the exact same thing going on except I don't have asthma attacks, and I took some lung tests and was told my oxygen/c02 exchange was normal. I do catch myself holding my breath all the time, or breathing in very very small amounts of air. I usually try for 15 minutes or so to breathe deep but nothing seems to work until I yawn and inhale sharply.. does any of this sound familiar?
Did you ever figure out what was going on? SO FRUSTRATING!
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Hi.

I used to breathe too fast like that.  The doctor explained the rapid breathing caused anxiety, so it was important to learn to slow it down.  I decided to learn relaxation techniques using biofeedback.  Another way would have been doing yoga I imagine.  

I do not have asthma, but I do have some digestive issues that had me very uncomfortable.  I think that's why I breathed like that - discomfort.  I don't do it much at all anymore.  
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