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.

[Thejake]

It's 5am at the time of writing this and I have to say it is the most annoying thing I have had to deal with in my lifetime. To preface I don't have a solution but I would really like to share my story with you. I am now 24 years old and have had to deal with this since I was little. I used to be able to take as many deep breathes as I wanted. I remember the exact night I lost that ability because I woke up panicked. I had to be 8 or 9. It's weird to remember loosing that ability but now when I achieve a full breath it is oh so satisfying. However on nights like tonight where the sun is coming up and I cannot sleep because I feel I can't breathe. I worry that this is a condition that has not been recognized.

[kremesko]

Hi Rat193, I just read your post about your breathing & yawning. I have the freaking same thing and i am so desperate. I know you posted this 5 years ago, let me know if it got better for you.I could not yawn for the past 12 hours and I am going crazy, very panicky...I spent the whole night fighting panic and trying to yawn and nothing....my husband is supportive but  does not get it. I need to hear form somebody who is in the same situation. Heeeelp

[Dev89]

I have the exact same problem! My girlfriend doesn't fully understand what I mean but she knows it's happening. I went to the doctor several times for it including the er and they've done ekgs, oxygen monitoring, blood work, heart and chest X-ray, and all came back normal. Last time I was at the hospital they chalked it as anxiety and panic attacks, I've gone to my pcp as well and he too claims its anxiety and gave me medicine. It doesn't seem to be helping at all but they've found nothing wrong with me so it has to be all in my head! It's driving me nuts! Sorry for the long book lol.

[K1NG_]

Hi! Im having same problem.. Im 15 and been ha ing bad anxiety/panic attacks. I seem to always worry ablut dying and i feel like i cant breath or anything. I want all the pains and feelings to go away. I just wanna feel normal again

[smarch84]

hi i too suffer from the same thing my doctor says its a form of anxiety bc at first i would go into a complete panic attack. It still occurs frequently but my doc said as long as I'm breathing im fine but to help calm myself from panicking breathe slowly in my nose out my mouth and concentrate on the breathing and it will pass and eventually u will be able to take the breath u need to get relief. I have also noticed standing up helps if I'm laying down or sitting it makes things more difficult. i know its been a while but hope this helps!! I decided to google this bcuz i am going through it now and I want more answers I'm glad to see its more common than i thought, since talking with my doc and taking her breathing advice I have been to calm myself before going into a panic attack but its so uncomfortable but obviously theres no miracle cure!!

[zambrotta19]

Hi. I'm the original poster. It's been a long time since I started this post. What I have to say is that unfortunately as much as all of you who are dealing with it and for myself who is still dealing with it to some degree is that's it's truely all in the head. I wasn't able to get what I thought at the time a deep breath for almost 10 years. I started with the recommendation from someone to get help from a Rolfer who specializes in fascia which is the superficial part of the muscle. After doing the whole 12 sessions I was able to finally take a deep satisfying breath. This led me to search and investigate more because now I was able to get a deep breath and all my thoughts of "theres something wrong or having a mysterious diseases" was proved wrong. What I have come to discover and find out is that there is something called SOMATIC OCD related to breathing. What most of us are suffering from or what I'm suffering from is obsessive compulsive disorder related to breathing. All of you who think you might have what I have please search Somatic OCD breathing and it will be the answer to you problems. There is a diagnosis for what we have. It's a mental illness. We have Come to think and believe that every time we take a deep breath or yawn that it's needs to be or feel a curtain way. We think it needs to be deep or feel satisfying or else there's something wrong and then we get stuck in a cycle of hell. But the truth of the matter is that ever time we take a deep breath it doesn't have to be satisfying because it's just normal body function. If our bodies need it... It will take it. If we don't need it and we try to manipulate it... It won't work and it's there where we get stuck into this cycle of hell. So please read about somatic OCD breathing and remember that everytime we have surge to tea a deep breath it doesn't have to be satisfying. Now this is not for everyone but if what your experiencing why I have experienced or am experiencing then what I've mentioned is what I've come to to conclude.

[Amamaa]

Zamrbotta, i've been searching for you as you have posted this problem 9 years ago. So i would like to check with you if you have found any solution. I would like to know more on your medical journey.

May i know how can we overcome Somatic OCD?

[Sarasunshine5]

Thiamin. Vitamin B-1

[laughy53]

I've had the same thing here's a simple but effective solution. ..when you feel you need a satisfying deep breath but can't seem to get it if there is s way you can make yourself sneeze that will automatically give you that deep satisfying breath, it works everyone for me and once you do it if will ease your mind and you'll find it happening less and less and I'm speaking if it's caused from anxiety. Try this out really does work cuz when you sneeze your body takes the deep breath automatically.

[laughy53]

This has happened to me too,just feels like i need a deep satisfying breath but can't do i figured out how to do it and once you do the feeling goes away cuz you know it's just anxiety, this is how i did it. If there is s way you can make yourself sneeze you will automatically get that satisfying deep breath cuz when you sneeze your body automatically does it. It absolutely works!

[ModernWarfare2]

honestly kid  playing games helps a lot it takes your mind of things that you might be worrying about try playing Modern Warfare 2 or 3 good luck keep me updated