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[bits10]

hey ya!im 30 yr old woman,ive been sick over the last 2 years(nothing serious thank god) but has left me with awful panic attacks and anxiety!!i got bronchitis last year which i found it hard to shake,since then i feel like my breathing is never right,it feels like my breath is catching in my throat.after many doctors visits he says it could be asthma and tried me on a few different inhalers over the last while and none made a difference,if anything made me physically sick!!im off them now but still gets times when im like this for days,i makes myself dizzy trying to breathe!can anyone help as to weather it is asthma r just anxiety??????

[Paderla Anitha, DNB]

Hello and hope you are doing well.

Asthma can be detected by spirometry. There is an entity called exercise induced Asthma, here as the person starts exercise, the changes in the environmental air breathed in trigger an attack of asthma, causing cough and breathlessness. Have yourself evaluated for the same. This can be detected by a spirometry test.

Hope this helped and do keep us posted.

[Jerry_NJ]

Do you suffer from nasal congestion, a common allergy center of action.  I do and it makes me feel I have trouble breathing, but I in fact just have trouble breathing through my nose.

Whatever, has anything in you environment changed a couple of years go?  Think about it, work place, home, travel, diet... there may be some allergy stimulant source you can identify by matching symptoms with something external.

Were you ever a smoker?  Than can cause damage to the lungs that make breathing difficult.  In general I think that happens only after many years as a smoker - or I now hear, being exposed to other smokers.