Please help!,not sure if asthma - Asthma Message Board

ceg741 · 04-21-2009, 12:13 PM

Hi everyone,
Am new to this particular board and would really appreciate a little advice.
I'm not sure if i have asthma.I do have anxiety issues and have been told thats what this is but i'm not so sure.

I remember having this feeling when i was a child and it would come and go, then about five years ago it came back and has stayed since.

Basically i feel as if i cannot take proper breaths in,it isnt there all the time but most of the time,my chest also feels stiff and constricted and i get really tired.Its as if my breaths in are not satisfying and the constriction stays until i manage to take a breath with that satified feeling.
Also a few months ago i got this really bad pain under my left shoulder which penetrated right through to my chest,have had it three times since,when i tried to inhale fully the pain was immence.I dont think i can describe the feeling in my chest fully,its weird.Sometimes it effects me when i eat and i will almost choke as i feel i cant breath when i eat.
Went to Doctor who got me to breathe into a spirometry i think.For my weight and height i managed about 400 at best which was low,he also said the pain was muscle spasm but i'm not so sure.
My father suffers with asthma and copd.

Am just wondering if anyone with asthma relates to this.

Any advice much appreciated.

Many thanks and best wishes

light the world · 04-21-2009, 04:14 PM

I suffer from asthma and axiety. Whenever I get anxious I'll get short of breath.It will get harder to breath as well. A symptom or a sign of asthma is weasing. Does this ever happen to you. If it does it could mean you have asthma. Only a doctor can tell you though. I take flovent and bricanyl for asthma, it seems to be working. There doesn't seem to me as much inflammation anymore.

KristaK · 05-01-2009, 05:12 PM

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Originally Posted by under

I suffer from asthma and axiety. Whenever I get anxious I'll get short of breath.It will get harder to breath as well. A symptom or a sign of asthma is weasing. Does this ever happen to you. If it does it could mean you have asthma. Only a doctor can tell you though. I take flovent and bricanyl for asthma, it seems to be working. There doesn't seem to me as much inflammation anymore.

Sounds like your having Panic Attacks, not Asthma Attacks.

CONCERS · 12-26-2009, 07:54 PM

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Originally Posted by ceg741

Hi everyone,
Am new to this particular board and would really appreciate a little advice.
I'm not sure if i have asthma.I do have anxiety issues and have been told thats what this is but i'm not so sure.

I remember having this feeling when i was a child and it would come and go, then about five years ago it came back and has stayed since.

Basically i feel as if i cannot take proper breaths in,it isnt there all the time but most of the time,my chest also feels stiff and constricted and i get really tired.Its as if my breaths in are not satisfying and the constriction stays until i manage to take a breath with that satified feeling.
Also a few months ago i got this really bad pain under my left shoulder which penetrated right through to my chest,have had it three times since,when i tried to inhale fully the pain was immence.I dont think i can describe the feeling in my chest fully,its weird.Sometimes it effects me when i eat and i will almost choke as i feel i cant breath when i eat.
Went to Doctor who got me to breathe into a spirometry i think.For my weight and height i managed about 400 at best which was low,he also said the pain was muscle spasm but i'm not so sure.
My father suffers with asthma and copd.

Am just wondering if anyone with asthma relates to this.

Any advice much appreciated.

Many thanks and best wishes

leopard777 · 01-13-2010, 02:11 AM

HI ,What i know it's a friend of mine, he was too often alone at home, not so involved in the society.
And this breathing problems started.

Then his familly moved to a place with more neighbour.
He had several friends there, and that was over.
He never had this problem after.