No I have never taken those medications. I tend to stay away from them. I am a migraine sufferer as well and only take advil/aspirin when conditions arise.
Please, if you would, please let me know if you took any of the named medication. I almost died of a breathing attack myself and the only thing I did was taking prescibed pain medication...
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It is very hard to determine the exact cause of what you are describing and whether you will have this again. It is very possible that you had an exposure to some chemical in the carpeting process, such as fibers, glue, etc. This could have caused some of your symptoms, as well as a high exposure to dust or molds. Any of these things could give you some problems that are exposure-related and therefore temporary.
One easy issue to deal with is the smoking. Undoubtedly, exposures to the respiratory track are magnified by the damage caused by smoking. Cigarette smoke heightens the inflammatory process and will make irritant effects much worse. Of course, all the other issues with smoke from lung and heart disease, as well as the heightened risk for cancer, certainly apply to all smokers.
Good advice would be to not be the person to remove the carpet again and stop smoking.
Did you at any point take for pain: VICODIN, OXY-CONTIN, HYDROCODONE, PERCOCET, MORPHINE,
the symptoms sound like classic hyperventillation syndrome. You feel like your short n oxygen so breathe harder and bigger but you get more oxygen whcih can cause the diziness, tingling, tunnel vision, chest paind (from over infaltion). The answer for that is to breathe SLOW and LOW - using the diaphragm properly rather than the chest. After breathing out rest for a second or 2 before brething in. This allow the O2 and CO2 levels to normalise. If you don't break the cycle of breathing harder and harder you can get into a panic attack where you feel you can't get a breath. you over inflate you chest to get more air but that somhow registers as not getting a breath. I've been through all of the above, and also found a food allergy affected my stomach (bloating) which caused resisatance to the diaphragm breathe. The allergy also caused mucous in my upper respiritory area which made it difficult to breathe through my nose. This felt like I was stuggling to breathe but mouth breathing was still easy. Mouth breathing encourages chest breathing though. I avoid soy/wheat/gluten and this problem has gone and I have no problem diaphragm breathing now.
I wonder if you had some allergic reaction to something in the dust which triggered something like my case? learning to avoid the allergies and diaphragm breathe were the 2 biggest steps forward for me. best of luck