lalala, shortness of breath and Yawning are both symptoms of anxiety and PD and are both sysmptoms of most of the meds used to control or lessen the symptoms of P.D. and Anxiety. I have been sober for amost six years, and have been on one or more drugs for Anxiety and P.D. since then, and am still discovering more symptoms/side effects to both the drugs and P.D./Anxiety. I have also had multiple Stress tests from cardiologists and a nerologist as well as EKG and EEG. Health is our concern, and we as individulas need to do what ever it is we have to to get the answers and the level of comfort from the answers to make sure we are O.K.. Exercise is awesome for stress and anxiety, keep that up, make sure yopur doctor knows that you do exercise, and take comfort in the fact that when you do, you feel uncomfortable from the shortness od breath, but if you got the OK know it is a symptom of an over active brain. MY brain is absolutely not my friend much of the time. It has made me self medicate and think things which are just not logical and unsafe. Medication has helpedme, and while they work I take that opportunity to train myself that I am healthy and strong and that my brain is going to be used for what I need it for and is not going to try and convince me of things that are just not logical or right despite how believable it seems at the time it is happening.
I once had to disrupt an entire plain load of travelers on the Tarmac at O'hare because my breath shortness cam on so suddenly I got light headed and was convinced I was having heart failure. I would most asuredly not do anything like that in a normal state of mind, but looking back although I feel bad about the travelers delay, I also just have to think "You know what, it was real at the time, as real as appendicitis or migraines or arthritis." "It was medical and I needed help as any one elsew would with any other apparent and documented health problem, so S@#$w em."