feel short of breath ugh

i have been feeling short of breath lately.  i was at my allergy doc yesteday and asked him to check me for asthma.  he said i was fine. 

sooooo, i'm assuming it's all the stress in my life right now.  ugh

i'm taking deep breaths and focusing on my breathing which seems to be making it worse.  i notice when i am busy, it goes away.  what do you do for this??  i need an escape.  so much going on right now in my life.  work, ex, money. 

I've had this off and on my whole life, I finally found I was sensitive to different foods, which when stressed out, I would eat particular foods like we all do! lol The thing was which made it harder for me was, when I wasn't extremely stressed I would eat the same things but, not in as much quantity or frequency I guess, so I didn't always have a noticeable breathing problem, so learning that I was sensitive helped out a ton, I thought I had tons of issues or things wrong with me when it was just sensitive to soy, gluten and glutamate. Hope this also helps you, or help someone else who crosses this thread.

Termoska,

I met a guy who is a chemist with a healthy eating background, he asked me what I had been eating and asked me to try to remove a lot of the stuff from my diet, which was like a night and day difference for me. Basically, I removed all fluoride, glutamates and soy from my diet to begin with, which if you are buying food already prepared at the grocery store, its loaded with bad stuff, you have to find certain brands that don't have a mile long ingredient label or cook most everything from scratch, good thing I like to cook!

Once you try this and remove as much as possible from your diet you can start to add things back until you find out your triggers, the worst foods at the grocery store are canned soups, boxed foods like hamburger helper, stuffing or dressing for turkey dinner etc., salad dressings, chicken or beef stock even those yummy bouillon cubes, barbeque sauces and the like.

They hide things in the ingredients list like they can have 99% glutamate in something but only say "spice" in the label, since its not against the law, so be careful, the main words I watch for are "natural flavors, spice, hydrolyzed and autolyzed" most of these words are used to disguise msg. The organic section of your grocery store will become your best friend!

That helped tremendously with panic triggers, I even got to the point of having heart palpitations, but eliminating all this stuff from my food stopped the heart palps and faintness/light headedness cold in their tracks! If you feel more bloated with certain foods than you should, you should probably steer clear of them, something is reacting with the flora in your stomach or intestines, everyone is different, not all of us can eat the same things, try making more from scratch, and in larger quantities, like breads or pizza crusts, that don't have all the bad stuff in them, and freezing them up until later, salad dressing is something I love, but the home made stuff is a million times better than the pre bottled, I would never have known that ranch could be so yummy without getting sick and having panic attacks lol.

Hope this helps, if you have any more questions feel free to ask! Good Luck

Half of what the FDA or Government says about food ingredients can be taken with a grain of salt, I believe they are out for money more than they are our safety, there has been recent talk about ingredients they have barely tested at all being in foods currently.

I'm putting my faith in our own testing lol.

Tinlou,

Funny you mention artificial sweeteners, I stay away from those as well, aspartame they claim is fine for you but some good research on it and you will find that most people can't digest it, it causes me headaches if I eat or drink something with it in there.

List of things I stay away from are:
Artificial Sweeteners; Aspartame, High Fructose Corn Syrup, Corn Syrup.
Soy.
Monosodium Glutamate; Spice, Natural Flavors, Hydrolyzed anything and Autolyzed anything.
Fluoride.
Red, Blue and Yellow food dye.

OMG - I need educating!
I've been battling depression and anxiety for three decades and been trying to get off the various meds since the beginning. Now to find that some of this might be diet related is unsettling to say the least. I eat a lot of dairy, love sandwiches, drink coffee, milk and water. I don't drink pop or juice and other than KD I don't eat a lot of processed food - at least I don't think I do...I'm questioning everything now. I don't eat during the day because it makes me very sleepy and anxious. Recently I started drinking Ensure or Boost in the morning because everyone says breakfast is the most important meal but I've never been able to face it. Where can I find out more about food sensitivities and their symptoms?

Thanks Jessie,
I'm going to do some research and ask my doctor some questions.