Question by : desperate- need help- serious breathing problem and more?
Hi, I need some serious advice. I’d really appreciate it!! Anyway, I have some serious problems, and the majority of my concern is a breathing / pulmanary problem. This started last year (but at the time it wasn’t so severe). Here is a detailed description of how it all started:
March 2011: I noticed I was getting out of breath singing. Sometimes when laughing I’d almost faint.
Later March 2011: I started having to yawn to get a deep , satisfying breath. I still feel this way. I feel like yes my body is getting oxygen, but it’s only because I have to force these labored breaths.
April 2011: Everyday in the humidity I felt like it was torture to breathe. I was intolerant to the heat. I’d have to sit in my car on my lunch break w/the AC on full blast and it still didn’t relieve it. Meanwhile, I’m still not able to sing right in April. And I’m a singer so it sucks.
July 2011: I did my last musical performance because singing was torture. I just couldn’t have enough breath to hold the notes out. My “talking” voice had not been affected by this time yet, though.
August 2011: This was the peak of the illness, when everything started spiriling down after. It was getting really hard to talk, as I’d run out of breath. i started having extreme heart palpatations, racing heart, heart always raced after eating, after standing up it jumped to 120 bpm sometimes higher, and then at 4 AM i’d get a hot flash with racing heart, almost every night. I thought I had POTS for a while, I don’t know.
In August the humidity was still bothering me and I still couldn’t take that satisfying breath. I started hyperventilating about once a week with light exertion. I was out of breath with any exertion. I was almost bedridden 24/7. I was fainting from laughing. I’d also faint frmo talking too much (maybe vagus nerve problem?). My chest got to be so tight that I could barely stand up or walk. So thus I was losing muscle making it even harder to walk.
September 2011- PRESENT:
**still sensitive to heat and can’t breathe in cold
- diagnosed with asthma but idk if this explains all my symptoms or maybe the asthma came from something else
-hot flash/ sweat if temperature is over 71*,
-racing heart with VERY light exertion
- can barely do ANYTHING
-can’t walk more than 10 feet…
-out of breath with very light exertion, even talking one word i’m out of breath
- discomfort in torso and airways
-diaphragm is so tight
- whole chest is so tight
- throat occassionally tight
- throat closes up on me when walking or in exertion
- LUMP in throat, / glubus hystericus mostly just in cold
-always out of breath, but the more i do , the worse it gets
-heavy, labored breathing
-sometimes fast, shallow “panting” breathing
-can’t catch breath after using bathroom
-off and on sore airways
- wheezing / breath sound every time I move torso … weird breath sound coming from my chest… it makes me feel weird afterwards, very dizzy and lightheaded when i move torso
-CAN’T TALK!!!!
HEART RACES AFTER EATING CERTAIN FOODS
– PEOPLE HAVE SUGGESTED ANXIETY BUT HOW DOES THAT EXPLAIN THAT WEIRD NOSE AND THE HUMIDITY THING, AND HOW IT STARTED IN MARCH … WHAT COULD THIS BE????? I’M GUESSING SOMETHING TO DO W/MY LUNGS OR DIAPHRAGM… HIATAL HERNIA???? DOCTORS ARE NOT TAKING ME SERIOUSLY AND ONE EVEN SAID I HAVE SOMATIZATION… BUT LOOK AT THE FACTS AS TO HOW THIS ALL HAPPENED.  Read more...