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Posted 6/24/2016 1:23 AM (GMT 0)
I am not sure if this is what I'm experiencing, but something new is happening with my breathing/lungs ☹️
Posted 6/24/2016 2:30 AM (GMT 0)
What's your current treatment?
Posted 6/24/2016 4:21 AM (GMT 0)
I've been having issues that I think may be air hunger. I will just feel like I'm not getting enough air, even when taking deep breaths. feels kind of like I'm having a panic attack.
Posted 6/24/2016 4:31 AM (GMT 0)
You will probably get many different answers!

For me, I started with the inability to take a breath without launching into an insane coughing fit. Then it turned into the inability to exhale enough. I'd find myself panting in order to exhale. Once I started treating Bart, it went dormant for the most part. If I get run down, it'll start up again.

-p
Posted 6/24/2016 10:41 AM (GMT 0)
DS describes his as someone sitting on his chest while he tries to breathe through a straw. Luckily an albuterol inhaler helps a bit.

He has had a few hyperventilation episodes with hypocalcemia and those are scary for him and us. He has lorzepam/ativan for those if they happen again.
Posted 6/24/2016 12:29 PM (GMT 0)
I had trouble taking in air felt like I couldn't get enough, It was very hard in the beginning when I didn't know what was wrong, especially exercising people I exercised with would tell me you need to go to the Doctor ya right been to so many Doctors blood work is fine everything is fine just can't breathe. Much better know with treatment I think that is a Babesia symptom.
Posted 6/24/2016 12:59 PM (GMT 0)
Othey, the same thing happens to me. I take in deep breaths, let them out. I even count to slow the breathing to really get some air, but it never helps that feeling like I'm not getting any oxygen. It started with all my other symptoms.

It's also gone on to nighttime. When I try to sleep, I cough like crazy and I wake up from sleep gasping for air like I had stopped breathing. Scares the crap outta my husband and the cat!!!!
Posted 6/24/2016 4:53 PM (GMT 0)
Mine just feels like pressure on my chest and I can't get a full breath. I've also noticed times when I have trouble swallowing and with both sends me into panic which obviously makes me worse.
Posted 6/24/2016 5:33 PM (GMT 0)
Mine is when I am walking, used to love walking but now often find it a struggle, especially walking up even a slight incline, feel I can't take a deep breath and certainly can't talk and walk any more when the air hunger strikes.
Posted 6/25/2016 1:11 AM (GMT 0)
Thank you!

I ended ABX a month ago...started seeing my LLMD recently and only on Hout (sorry don't know how to spell the whole name!). Getting ready for ABART and ABABS. And add in other alternative therapies.

My breathing issues started about a month and a half ago. I feel often I can't fill my lungs, and I'm short on air. Sometimes I start to cough. I feel pressure in my throat area.

I can't find a consistent trigger, it happens randomly...sometimes constantly through the day, and other times I get a break for a few days before it starts again.
Posted 6/25/2016 1:31 AM (GMT 0)
My air hunger is in my brain. It's weird, it just feels like my brain isn't getting enough oxygen. It comes and goes. I haven't had it for a couple months, but I greatly reduced my stress when I quit my job. I'm going back to work in a week or two, so we;ll see if it comes back.
Posted 6/25/2016 2:06 AM (GMT 0)
When I get air hunger it's in the morning after waking. For me it's not severe. It never feels like I can't breathe but my body makes me *sigh* a bunch over and over to try and get more air.

For some reason your body thinks it's not getting enough air when it is. So what ever determines that in our body (excuse my ignorance) is not telling our body/brain that it is in fact getting enough air.

Sometimes I don't even realize it it until I've been "sighing" a lot. Then it hits me, darn lyme and co is at it again.
Posted 6/25/2016 10:59 PM (GMT 0)
".............I feel often I can't fill my lungs, and I'm short on air."

- that was me too, off and on in the past.

Of all the past times I had this, it lasted about a month and slowly went away.
Posted 6/28/2016 10:25 PM (GMT 0)
Mine feels like my heart skips or feel a palpitation and then I try to take a breath and it makes me cough and can't breath in. It's fleeting and I'm fine on my next breath. Haven't felt it in a while since I have been on Cat's claw. colloidal Silver and lemon balm. Not sure why.
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