Usually hyperventilation is related to a condition called panic disorder. This unfortunately is a very bad name. People who suffer from it do not always experience panic-type feelings. In fact, we think that it is a disorder of the very deep part of your brain that controls your breathing. This leads to frightening, but not harmful,
Thanks Ellis! One of the reasons I did not run to the ER upon this feeling is because I had a hunch it was related to something like this. The problem is fixing it! I thought I was doing something to help when my Dr. told me I was "probably chronically hyperventilated". I tried to pay attention to my breathing and do more from the diaphagm. I am still going to check this out with a physician to make sure there isn't something more( ie. bronchospasm or something else??????)but I appreciate the link. I will check it out!
It could be 'hyperventilation'. Here's a link:
http://www.remcomp.com/asmanet/edit9702.html
Hyperventilation Syndrome & Asthma (Asmanet) Excerpt:
"Chronic hyperventilation syndrome is characterized by a large variety of somatic symptoms induced by physiologically inappropriate hyperventilation and usually reproduced in whole or in part by voluntary hyperventilation.
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The symptoms are however real and not imaginary as they are related to the biochemical and physiological changes associated with the fall in PaCO2.
The respiratory symptoms associated with this syndrome include shortness of breath, usually described as "air hunger" - a need to take a deep, satisfying breath, accompanied by a feeling of difficulty in inflating the lungs-, a small dry cough, the impression of a tickle in the throat. Most hyperventilators tend to sigh or yawn frequently and typically adopt a pattern of thoracic instead of diaphragmatic breathing."