I am at the 6 month mark for babs treatment. feeling so much better but still have slight air hunger. I can only describe it as involuntary deep breaths,like a dog sighing.as it is laying down. Can you all please chime in and tell me what you would describe it as?
Posted by Paul Mall (Member # 27581) on :
Air hunger for me is one of the Hardest things to put into words.
but it does invlove taking deep breaths a lot for no aparent reason.
I also at times feel like my breathing goes out of rythum kinda like when you have a heart flutter... but more like a respiratory flutter
like I said air hunger for me is really hard to put into words
but like you said to take a deep breath way too many times for no apparent reason that was my first and main sign of air hunger
Paul
Posted by seekhelp (Member # 15067) on :
I don't know what I have, but I have something I've never seen another person ever experience. I yawn hundreds of time a day and never catch my full breath when yawning. It's terrible. I've never in my life in public seen someone yawn like me. It ruins my life.
Today I had this bad along with an inability to take a full breath. it felt like I was being suffocated. A Zyrtec helped immensely within an hour. Interesting.
It is MUCH worse in the daytime than at night. Another strange twist.
Posted by Dogsandcats (Member # 28544) on :
It felt like I could not take a deep enough draw for air to give the the relief of a full breath of air. Sometimes it would almost slide into panic cause I couldn't get a full refreshing breath. Stopping and trying to breathe slowly helped. Sometimes it would hit when I was going upstairs, I sounded much more out of shape than I am.
Hope this helps
Posted by Dogsandcats (Member # 28544) on :
It felt like I could not take a deep enough draw for air to give the the relief of a full breath of air. Sometimes it would almost slide into panic cause I couldn't get a full refreshing breath. Stopping and trying to breathe slowly helped. Sometimes it would hit when I was going upstairs, I sounded much more out of shape than I am.
Hope this helps
Posted by sickntired19 (Member # 21949) on :
Mine actually presents in several different ways, I have no idea what makes the difference but something does. So first of all, all my life I have done the big deep heavy sighing. Like just grabbing that big breath of air, non-intentionally.
But then it got worse to where I was gasping for breath, every couple of minutes. It is a sharp, deep gasp that really hurts my lungs actually. This usually only lasts about week or 2 at a time.
Then I've started having this thing where it feels like my body isn't breathing on its own. I have to THINK about breathing, and it feels like such a huge chore!
I have breath through my mouth all the time, rarely can I get enough oxygen by breathing through my nose. Its like my nose is plugged, only it isn't!
But I always have the big deep sighing, all the time, just varying degrees of severity.
This is such a great question!! I love hearing what others experience, especially when it validates my symptoms. Helps not to feel so crazy! Posted by sickntired19 (Member # 21949) on :
Oh my word!! I get the yawning too!! It is so unsatisfying!! I call it a non-productive yawn. And they usually aren't complete like normal yawns.
I also have the coughing. Another thing I call non-productive. Its just more of a need to breath, not so much cough.
quote:Originally posted by seekhelp: I don't know what I have, but I have something I've never seen another person ever experience. I yawn hundreds of time a day and never catch my full breath when yawning. It's terrible. I've never in my life in public seen someone yawn like me. It ruins my life.
Today I had this bad along with an inability to take a full breath. it felt like I was being suffocated. A Zyrtec helped immensely within an hour. Interesting.
It is MUCH worse in the daytime than at night. Another strange twist.
Posted by Robin123 (Member # 9197) on :
What I want to know - can this be caused by Lyme? I have air hunger and I don't think I have babesia, since I have no other symptoms that would suggest it.
Posted by BackinStOlaf (Member # 23725) on :
Robin. Air hunger is my only babesia symptom as well., I just started treating it. My LLMD said you can have just one symptom of something.
Posted by back2game (Member # 23927) on :
Yes, great info on this. Mine is more not being able to get a deep breath. Happens more when reclining. I have to rise sometimes and breath deep in order to feel better.
I do have sinusitis periodically, runny nose lots and I breath thru my mouth because nose feels blocked too!
Yawning is also too embarassing. Seems worse if I go out anywhere. It's nuts.
Posted by BackinStOlaf (Member # 23725) on :
Mine is similar to what everyone else posted. I had a lung function test and it showed up as bronchospasm. LLMD says Babesia or inflammation in the cells from the Lyme/Babs
Posted by sutherngrl (Member # 16270) on :
Could you just have air hunger from being out of shape? I ask because I don't have any other symptoms of Babs, but I do get the feeling of air hunger. Its like I can't get a satisfying breath.
Posted by Taytsa (Member # 30097) on :
Im wondering the same thing, is air hunger a babs thing? Or can anything else casue it? Other co or simply anxiety or anything else?
Posted by Taytsa (Member # 30097) on :
Im wondering the same thing, is air hunger a babs thing? Or can anything else casue it? Other co or simply anxiety or anything else?
Posted by sutherngrl (Member # 16270) on :
I have read that persistant yawning is a sign of anxiety. So I wonder if anxiety could be a cause of air hunger.
And being out of shape physically, like the lungs not being used for a very long time. Not taking deep breaths for months or years, couldn't that cause a breathing issue?
Posted by TerryK (Member # 8552) on :
You can also have air hunger (feeling like you can't get enough oxygen) if you have a trigger point in your chest. Sometimes working out trigger points in my chest will give me some relief.
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