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Problem breathing

My age is 27, I saw my doctor already about this same problem. I fell like my lungs can't take enough air, when I release air I fell like pausing moves but I don't know if it is the heart or the lungs that pauses, sometimes I have to take a deep breath but it doesn't go thru I have to try sometimes for 4 times in a row and still won't go all the way (like when you take a deep breath and you fell like a click point when you releas) and I yawn a lot too, more than anybody I know.
I think I don't know how to breath.
My doctor told me is like anxiety and panic attacks and he gave me Paxil I took it for 1 month (1 year ago) but still happens. I don't feel nervous.
Thank you

Follow Ups:

• Re: Problem breathing Walt Stoll 15:25:56 1/20/00 (1)
  • Re: Problem breathing... response to Walt's poor excuse for a follow up Anne 02:15:24 1/21/00 (0)
• Re: Problem breathing Rona 12:01:18 1/19/00 (1)
  • Re: Problem breathing (Good advice!) Walt Stoll 08:33:46 1/21/00 (0)
• Re: Check out the Anxiety Archive Robot Responer 10:18:52 1/19/00 (0)

In Reply to: Problem breathing posted by Ines Monsan on January 19, 2000 at 10:09:24:

You might check out the Anxiety Archive (linked below) to see if you recognize your symptoms, also about what to do about them.

RHJ++

• Walt's Anxiety Q/A Archive

In Reply to: Problem breathing posted by Ines Monsan on January 19, 2000 at 10:09:24:

Hi there,
I also had that and occasionally still do from time to time. It is anxiety, but not necessarily depression, which is what Paxil is for. Much better for you to get very serious about your SR, and to read a couple of books that literally got me past this. One is Hope and Help for your Nerves and the best one is the Anxiety and Phobia Workbook. Once you understand this, your focus on it will go away and your problem will resolve. Also, for me, 30 minutes a day on the treadmill really helped. Don't be impatient with yourself, it takes a while but you will surely be on the right track.
Regards,
Rona

Follow Ups:

• Re: Problem breathing (Good advice!) Walt Stoll 08:33:46 1/21/00 (0)

In Reply to: Problem breathing posted by Ines Monsan on January 19, 2000 at 10:09:24:

Hi, Inez.

Listen to Robot Responder (Thanks RHJ!).

You are consciously out of contact with your feelings if you "do not feel anxious". Your bodymind does not lie. EVERY clinician on the planet knows exactly why this is hapening to you. The difference with this website is that we frankly discuss what you can do about it.

Walt

Follow Ups:

• Re: Problem breathing... response to Walt's poor excuse for a follow up Anne 02:15:24 1/21/00 (0)

In Reply to: Re: Problem breathing posted by Walt Stoll on January 20, 2000 at 15:25:56:

I have a question... Walt are you in the medical field? So you think that you can diagnosis someone over the internet with so little information? I would be asking for much more information to figure out what was going on with my patient. Your response is cruel, and very insensitive. Before making such a judgemental diagnosis, you need to ask more questions... not just assume you know what you are talking about... because obviously you don't!

I have allergies that affect my upper airway to the point that my airway shuts down, and I have had to be intubated WIDE AWAKE, with NO medications what so ever in my body. It is NOT a pleasant experience, but because I knew what was happening to me, and why... I wasn't scared, or nervous really... because I knew I was where I needed to be, and would be taken care of. I was there and watched as my Oxygen saturation dropped from 99% to 60% in about a 10 minute period because the allergic reaction was working so hard against me, and my fight to breath without difficulty.

I have been there, where you go to the doctor, explain what your chief complaint is, and how you arrived at this, and gotten the whole little "you are having an anxiety / panic attack, or psychiatric crisis".... I can't make my oxygen saturation drop that dramatically, in sucha small period of time... and holding your breath like little kids like to do to get their way is self correcting.... you hold your breath until you pass out, and then your brain and lungs take over and you breathe again. I can't cause myself to have stridor and/or wheezing so badly (and loudly)that you can hear me across the ER.

I don't see how you think you are talking "frankly" about this, you are just making accusations that I don't think you can back up! You didn't address this issue at all. You just made a blind diagnosis from your closed up mind.

Please get a clue! You are NOT God, so stop trying to act as if you are!

Just my 2 cents! And YES, I do work in the medical field too! But I go out of my way NOT to judge the people I come in contact with. I have been there, and I didn't like the attitudes that I have gotten! I have multiple drug, food, dyes, and chemical allergies which apx 95% of put me into life threatening (anaphylactic) allergic reactions. I have been on both sides of the gurney! And I would NEVER treat my patients the way I have been treated on occasion by people (NREMT-Ps, RNs, MDs, and other EMS staff) because it doesn't do anything positive to the patient other than to add to their discomfort.... if I can't breathe because my airway is shutting down, I just want to be treated! I don't need attitude, because it only makes me mad, which doesn't really help the whole breathing difficulty thing!

Yes, this whole issue makes me angry or "hot under the collar". Because I have heard it over and over. Just because someone doesn't fit the "textbook case" doesn't mean that they are FOS... full of shit! Normal doesn't exist, we are all unique, we are not clones....

Get your head out of your @#$%^&*!!!

In Reply to: Re: Problem breathing posted by Rona on January 19, 2000 at 12:01:18:

Thanks, Rona!

This is exactly the kind of help I need on this BB.

Bless you!

Namaste`

Walt