Please HELP ME ASAP....What should I do?

[Nitsuj242]

Hello all...this is very strange. I'm feeling a heaviness on my chest or in my lungs. It feels like I can't get a full breath and am swallowing gunk. My throat feels a little tight. I feel as if i'm going to stop breathing in my sleep. Everytime i'm dozing off I jolt awake and get this weird sensation in my legs and body. I also get this weird head rush or light headedness when I jump awake like that.I feel a little tiny bit weak all over. It doesn't seem like my inhaler is doing anything to help.What do you think this could be? Could this be the seasonal allergies that are so bad right now? Asthma? Lung failure or something serious? Am I actually going to stop breathing in my sleep? I feel like my lungs are drowning in some kind of fluid and am having a bad time catching a breath or feeling comfortable.Please any help would be great.

[hava]

To help with the asthma and sleep apnea, follow these techniques. The ujjayi pranayam will exercise the throat muscles.

Build up your timing gradually.If you feel tired or dizzy, stop and resume after one minute.

Anulom Vilom pranayam –
Close your right nostril with thumb and deep breath-in through left nostril  
then – close left nostril with two fingers and breath-out through right nostril  
then -keeping the left nostril closed  deep breath-in through right nostril
then - close your right nostril with thumb and breath-out through left nostril.
This is one cycle of anulom vilom.
Repeat this cycle for 20 to 30  minutes twice a day.
Children under 15 years – do 5 to 10 minutes twice a day.
You can do this before breakfast/lunch/dinner or before bedtime or in bed.Remember to take deep long breaths into the lungs.You can do this while sitting on floor or chair or lying in bed.

Bhramri Pranayam -Close eyes. Close little flap of ears with thumb,place  index finger on forehead, and rest three fingers on base of nose touching eyes. Breathe in through nose. And now breathe out through nose while humming like a bee.
Repeat this  5 to 21 times.

Ujjayi pranayam
Procedure: While breathing in, tighten throat(contract glotis) and there will be sound from back of throat, then drop chin(rest chin on chest), hold breath as long as possible.Then  chin up, close right nostril and slowly breath out through left nostril.
Duration: 5 – 21 times

How to do Ujjayi
When you clear your throat, you tighten your throat and breath out, twice, with a pause in between. . Now if you reverse this, that is, tighten the throat and breath in continuously for abour 8 to 12 seconds, then hold your breath for 4 seconds with the chin down, then  chin up, close right nostril and slowly breath out through left nostril, you have just done Ujjayi pranayam.You will feel like coughing initially.
April 23 ,2012

[Nitsuj242]

Hello Dr Anitha, than you very much for your message. It is very nice to know all the different possibilities as to what this could be. I do suffer from anxiety and am being told allergies are really bad right now and it seems after all this worrying and posting on here i've done it turns out to be allergies and asthma like symptoms from anxiety or both. Either way thank you very much for your help/insight/advice. It is greatly appreciated an valued.

[Paderla Anitha, DNB]

Hello and hope you are doing well.

Your inhalers may not be adequate, consult your doctors for alternate ones. Your symptoms of breathlessness in sleep could be due to obstructive sleep apnea, wherein during sleep there is an obstruction to air flow due to laxity of the throat muscles during sleep and this could cause restlessness. Hence for therapy CPAP (continuous positive airway pressure) is used to keep it patent. This disorder can cause inadequate sleep leading to fatigue and daytime sleepiness. So, I would advise you to consult your primary care physician for further evaluation. He may then ask for a sleep study called polysomnography for further evaluation.

Hope this helped and do keep us posted.