Straining to complete yawn, yawning all day, feel i just need a deep breath.

[Cloefish]

I have had this problem for a long time, but in the last year it has gotten worse and I cant stand it.  I regularly go through periods where I feel the need to yawn or get a deep breath and I just cant. I try and try over and over to yawn (causing me to get head aches), and finally accomplish it just to need  to yawn again. I am a sleepy person all the time,  but  the  straining  to yawn thing  makes me  crazy! I also have increasingly bad short term memory problems (at only 25), could this be connected to the yawning, and lack of oxygen to the  brain? could I  have asthma?  thank you so much for any help you can give me.

[RitaPita1000]

I also tried captain cal breathing suggestions and within ten minutes began to feel a difference.  Thank you to captain cal for the understandable explanation, d easy suggestions.  It seems crazy to be such an easy fix, and I am glad there is something I can do that doesn't involve drugs.

[Hmm_Help]

I am so sorry, but your information sounds soooo convincing. I've even tried only one of the techniques a few minutes ago, and just halfway I started to feel like I was getting good results. I really hope this can fix everything for me in the long run. Are you at least in school for becoming a doctor?      :-T

[blackbreath]

hey there, i am on my 8th day of tis, the only way i get relief is to get to sleep somehow.... i havent slept in 5 days now, as well as the yawning, i have heaps of saliva, so i have to swallow and try to yawn, i am getting totaly freaked out, i am 40, I beg my hubby to just knock me out!!! I have a severe thyroid problem, possibly a thyroid crisis, i know how u feel, none of these breathing excersises help. I wake with blue lips and hands. do u have any thyroid problems??? kym

[cotters]

I have discovered that I only start to struggle and have the need to yawn and take deep breaths (which I cannot do)  when I am stressed and lacking in numerous days of sleep.  I am by nature a calm person so this is not an anxiety attack of any kind.    Eventually when I am able to sleep even if assisted for one day (by a sleeping tablet which I do not like to take)  the need to yawn and take a deep breath goes.  It is a very real symptom and can cause one to panic.  I now psychologically talk myself through it and also try and sleep as much as possible to catch up with my body's need for oxygen.  The body can only cope with so much.......

[Amy669]

Thanks for your explanation about CO2 and O2.  I am 54 and have only just starting getting daily "attacks" about a month ago.  I take no meds.  My diet is great.  Very much doubt I am allergic to milk.  I start off each day fine.  In the afternoon at work I start getting it.  The need to yawn (some yawns are successful and some are unsuccessful) and the inability to breathe out fully without discomfort.  I can't wait to take the next breath.  I have to take it quickly.  I read on the web about the diaphram breathing so I tried that.  I try to calm down and take large, even breaths into my belly rather than my chest.  It works but not for long.  Pretty soon I am back to where I started.  If I try to sleep in this state it's the worst.  Because it is completely impossible to relax when your breathing is not normal.  Interestingly - alcohol takes care of the problem for me for a short time.  But I am kind of strict with myself about my overall alcohol intake, so I can't use that to help me more than once a day. I don't have any other symptoms, just the breathing.  No dizziness, no sweaty palms, no increased heartbeat.  I do not even feel that anxious!  I know what anxiety is and I just don't feel it.  One afternoon when it was out of control I took my blood pressure with a home kit and the pressure was unusually low.  I had thought it would be high because I felt so terrible.  When I was much younger, I did have a few panic attacks.  That was about 30 years ago!  With this hyperventilation, I don't really feel like I am going into panic attack.  That's a slightly different (worse) feeling.  But this is pretty bad.  I can't wait to find a way out of this.

[hava]

The breathing techniques are described in my June 18 ,2010 post on this forum thread. Do the kapalbhati pranayam for first two days, and then do all the pranayam regualarly.