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Do y’all ever feel like you can’t breathe deep enough? I don’t feel it all the time but I do sometimes but the nurses at my college always said my lungs sounded fine. I don’t have asthma or anything
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Anonymous 1w

yes.. i think it’s because i hold so much tension in my body tbh. i’m always holding stress in my chest and stomach lol

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Anonymous 1w

Air hunger. All the time. I do have an inhaler for it that helps me stay active but we have no clue why I feel this way either. My blood oxygen level is fine, lungs are fine, respiration is fine, I just feel like there’s no oxygen in my body and breathing isn’t working

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Anonymous 1w

It’s an ocd thing for me! I get hyper focused on not feeling like I got a “good breath” and then that makes me anxious and in turn I get even more breathless it’s a vicious cycle and I can’t stand it😭

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Anonymous 1w

I do but I do have asthma

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Anonymous 1w

Do you have POTS? I know that can happen with that condition. I also get the air hunger feeling all the time, but I thinks that’s bc covid may have damaged my lungs a bit ✌️

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Anonymous 1w

emotions?

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Anonymous 1w

I do get this feeling sometimes, I also don’t have asthma

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Anonymous 1w

My lungs started doing that when I started vaping

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 1w

Huh?

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 1w

is it because of emotions

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 1w

I don’t think so, just feels physical. Like I can’t get a deep enough breath

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Anonymous replying to -> #6 1w

No, I don’t

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Anonymous replying to -> #6 1w

Just adding it’s a symptom of autonomic dysfunction in general, not just POTS. Any type of dysautonomia can experience it

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 1w

Yes, This! I have a lot of autonomic dysfunction issues, but not POTS.

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