Breathing Problems; Lung collapse?I'm sure that my lungs haven't collapsed, but this symptom has come an gone for over a year now. Do you know how when you yawn, you get that tiny gasp during or after it? I don't know why that is, but I get one of those after every 5-6 breaths I take. I don't know if I have control over it or not, but I think it's mostly involuntary. I do know that if I don't do it, I start feeling light-headed (from lack of oxygen, I guess.) I didn't really know how to define this, so I went with "shortness of breath" and "heaviness in the chest". I just feel like I can't fill my lungs properly and I have this uncontrollable gasp. What does it mean?
-stratotelecaster
Sounds like you have a touch of asthma maybe?
-wezy53154
I'm going to have to agree with the previous yahoo. It does sound like asthma. Does it wake you up in the latter portion of the night? Do you get 'winded' when you are walking or doing light exercise? Have you seen a doctor about this yet? If you haven't, please ask him/her to have a full pulmonary function test performed with a methacholine challenge. A pulmonary function test is a series of breathing maneuvers into a machine that measures how well your lungs fill and empty. Along with that it also measures how well oxygen diffuses from the lungs into the blood stream. The methacholine challenge is a test to see how sensitive your airways are. The quicker they react,, the more likely it is you have asthma. If you react on the first dose or two you probably have fairly sensitive airways and therefore have asthma. What you will need to do then is to identify your personal triggers, what causes you to react. Then systematically cull them out and remove them if possible. That along with taking any prescribed medication as directed by a physician will go a long way to helping you to feel better. Most importantly call your doctor!!!!!! Your breathing is absolutely nothing to mess with. If you can't breath, you won't be able to anything else. I hope everything works out for you. Good luck.
-amielou
actually the drive to breath is not to get oxygen it is to blow off co2, blowing off co2 is the first drive. then if some thing goes wrong and say your body gets use to high co2 levels in the blood then the 2nd drive to breath is to get oxygen. if you have a history of lung problems then yes it could be a recovery breath to get oxygen. but anyway you should talk with your doctor about this. it could be serious.
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