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Posted 6/25/2020 8:41 PM (GMT 0)
I remember a post about this recently, but I can't find it now....

I've noticed that recently when I take a deep breath, it feels just like any other breath - my chest does not feel like it is stretching or filling at all. I have not been doing breath work or anything else recently that somehow would have optimized my lung capacity. I am not short of breath or unusually lightheaded, and my pulse oxygen is always at 99.

Additionally, I can hold my breath indefinitely without getting the urge to breathe. I never get the panicky, urgent impulse to release the breath and take a new one.

These things make me wonder why the typical signals are not being sent in my body. I'm curious if anyone has these issues or has any insight about them.

Assuming this and the heartbeat issue I also posted about separately are both caused by stress and anxiety, I took a somatic experiencing class online this morning that focused on breath, thinking that might help to normalize my nervous system, but sadly it made no difference. Perhaps with regular practice....
Posted 6/25/2020 9:08 PM (GMT 0)
When I had terrible symptoms in 2015 on the heels of a bout of bronchitis, I couldn’t get my chest to expand outward. My chest wall felt like iron bars that wouldn’t move. I would sit up straight and get my lungs to expand upward a little, but I couldn’t expand them outward. It wasn’t my lungs that were the problem. It was stiffness and rigidity in my chest wall. Took double dose steroid inhalers for a month, which got me to about 85%. Eventually, the rest of it cleared up after I got out of the first moldy house.
Posted 6/25/2020 9:58 PM (GMT 0)
Not sure if it would help, but dong regulary breath work is great in general. I noticed a lot of improvments during a period where I spent 20-40 min meditating 5-6 days a week.

As DNRS have helped you, it might be good to continue in that kind of treatment. Medidation fits very well with that. Add some cold showers, muscle relaxation exercises and some time on a mat of nails. Not sure what its called in english but its lika mat with a lot of hard pointy things in plastic smile
Great for stress and anxiety. Cold showers have been my favorite lately, specially when its so warm now.

Post Edited (Deep_sleep) : 6/25/2020 4:03:42 PM (GMT-6)

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