I first noticed this strange breathing/wheezing noise when rotating my upper torso, shortly after having thyroid surgery. I had my thyroid, two parathyroid glands and several lymph nodes removed due to thyroid cancer (papilary). After the surgery I also had a strange involintary dry cough. This seemed to get better and almost go away after about 4 to 6 weeks and then when I had the radioactive iodine treatment the cough returned as did the breathing issue when twisting my upper body. Some nights when I lay in bed I can here a soft wheezing/squeeking sound when I exhale. I had a CT scan after the radioactive iodine and they noticed a bit of smudging in the lungs so I am going to go for a repeat of the chest CT scan in two weeks. I had a chest x-ray and nothing showed up. I hope the cancer has not spread to my lungs.
Though I believe mine is allergy related~
Im an 18 year old female, And I've been experiencing about the same thing. I have hives and the same strange breathing issue. When it first started happening it would only occur when I would raise my arm over my opposite shoulder and twist slightly (as if itching my back) but recently I only have to turn at about a 30 degree turn from twisting at the hips and I feel a suction of air, and than when I turn back it feels like I'm breathing outwards. As though when I twist it causes my lungs to simultaneously intake air and push it back out.
Seriously, why are you on here? We're genuinely concerned. I'm 32 and like I said I work out every and never in my life (I'm 32) never once has this happened to me. All of a sudden I get up, take the kids to school, come home, start to work out and I hear this freaky noise. If you think we are retarded or hypochondriacs then so be it... Honestly I think you needed a few more hugs growing up.
Wow to all of you... I just noticed my issue today and literally stopped excercising and ran to google. I can't find much on it. I've never in my 32 years of life expire fed this. I was working out like every Monday morning and heard this weird sound coming out of me. It's like I'm breathing when I'm not.
Hi guys,
I too have had exactly the same problem, and firstly let me just reassure everyone on this discussion board that this issue is NOT SERIOUS.
I am an otherwise healthy 20 year-old male who has recently been diagnosed with gastritis (acid reflux or GERD). I visited the doctor when I noticed this strange noise and he had a very good explanation for me...
Gastritis/acid reflux causes inflammation of the stomach and oesophagus. This inflammation of the oesophaus is what is causing these strange 'breath-like' sounds. When you move/rotate your torso, the oesophagus rubs against the trachea (wind pipe). The friction between the two pipes is what causes the strange sounds coming out of your mouth.
When will it stop? The sound will stop when the inflammation goes down. This can happen over time without treatment in mild cases. In more severe reflux cases (such as mine), a month on acid-suppressants should do the trick. Either way, there's nothing to worry about.
Hopefully this reassures everyone, it certainly reassured me.
Take care guys,
Dan.