Big set back/suffocation smothering feeling

I haven't had much to talk about anxiety wise which is a good thing I suppose! I got diagnosed with dysautonomia which is a malfunction in my autonomic nervous system so my blood pressure and heart rate don't do what they're supposed to and it causes a million other issues. But the cardiologist isn't concerned with it. Now I've had a suffocation feeling before and it's always gone away but lately it's getting so bad and my anxiety is flaring up again because I am not sure if it's anxiety or not. It's such a horrible feeling and all I can describe it as is like trying to breathe through a plastic bag. I guess I'm just curious if anyone else feels this everyday almost all day? It's really interfering with my life :/

Hi reg

This suffocation used to bother me as well, i promised u its just Enxiety if your cardio doc isn't worried then u shouldn't be, I slowly breath in and out 70 times counting and I take gaviscon ultac or enos.
Please don't let it bother u.

I take ativan everyday because my anxiety is so bad I'll have panic attacks daily without them. And this suffocating feeling has been daily almost all day for like a month. But once I got a diagnosis of this other thing I've been feeling worse. I keep telling myself that I had this feeling of suffocating before getting sick. I'm going to talk to my cardiologist about the breathing issues just to make sure it's not a complication from thee physical condition I have. I of course made the mistake of joining a group on Facebook with people who have the same thing that I have and this man used to post daily about feeling like he can't breathe and was suffocating and that the doctors told him it was anxiety because they did every possible lung test there could be and all things were normal. Well they posted that he had died and it sent me into a downward spiral because I have the suffocating feelings as well. No one knows how he died of course so people are spreading fear. I personally think it was a suicide because he had posted that he was giving up because he felt like he knew he was dying. Anyways I guess a bad idea to join those kinds of groups when you have anxiety/panic and ocd disorder...now I can't stop obsessing about my breathing. But I notice while I'm busy I don't notice it so my logical brain tells me ok if it were a serious underlying cause causing this it wouldn't just disappear when you are distracted. Sorry for the long drawn out post. I just know people here understand how physical anxiety can be. I feel like I set myself up to fail joining thathe "support group" because I should have known my brain couldn't handle it without my anxiety getting involved. Again sorry about the rant!