difficulty breathing, keep needing to take a deep breath, is this anxiety or something worse????

LOL ere comes another one :-) i am really sorry but at the moment your the only person i feel that can give some good advice :-) anyway when i was at the hospital i asked the doc if it could be asthma but the doc just ruled it out straight away, because i dont have wheezing, but i have heard other people with asthma who dont have wheezing symptoms they just have breathing difficulty, how would i get tested for asthma? would it of showed up on my chest x-ray i had?

Actually you could have something bronchial!!! It's true about the wheezing though with asthma! A chest Xray is a sensitive test, they don't like usually asking for them without reason. So don't ask for anything, they will handle it OK? And yes it would have shown up on the xray, but more so with them checking with a stethoscope. And STOP reading things and listening to so and so knows a guys brother whos cousin had a friend who had something like you did and it turned out to be cancer!!!!!!! ;-) OK? Like I have said to many on here, IF you punch in this symptom and that symptom then all of a sudden your illness will be Chinese Chicken Pimpleonia!!!!!! XD ;-) So NO self diagnosis, no listening to distant people, only your superiors like myself OK?!!!! ;-) Let me know what they say TOMMORROW!!!!! I need to get back to my other "patients"!!!!!! LOL

LOL yes yes of course :-) many thanks :-D :-D :-D

Also i forgot to mention another thing i have just remembered lol sometime early this year (or maybe end of o8) i was apparently doing strange stuff in my sleep, this was according to my brother, when i was asleep i would shout out stuff quite loud because my bro heard me from the other room, also one time i was banging on my bedroom door shouting, but i had no idea i was doing any of this as i was asleep, at the time i didn't take it seriously but now i have remembered it, it sounds like it might be related to my other symptoms.

That kind of goes with your symptoms. What you experienced before is called "Night Terrors" It is from your sub conscious, SOMETHING has affected you badly - either something from a LONG time ago that you experienced or something recently that you might not have thought was a big deal! Like I said before Marc, there is obviously something gone on that is manifesting itself through these "nightmares" and with you panic attacks. It's just you have to realize what it is and what has happened. Ask your parents if they can remember anything, it might have been something insignificant. I don't think its your girlfriend having the abortion to bring on night terrors! It is usually from something really frightening or violent or an unrealistic fear. My youngest son has terrible night terrors about dying!!!! So try and see if it is even about something like that. Ask you parents if you used to have "nightmares" when you were younger.

I am TERRIFIED/MORTIFIED of the dark, and I get them like you wouldn't believe. I have given everyone in this house a miny heartattack!!! o.O I actually - swear to god - dislocated my shoulder while trying to get away from someone in my dream!!!! Try explaining that to a doctor?!!!! ;-) XD o.O So this is what I think might be happening with you. It could be something you don't think of in regular settings, but something is setting it off from time to time!

Now get to bed and that will be $200, I accept cash, check and cc!!!! XD ;-) By Jove I think I've got it and we will have you cured in no time!!! My god I should have gone to medical school!!!! ;-) XD Mention this to the real doctor tommorrow and let me know then. I AM going to bed and will not answer anymore of your questions till 10, hundred hours tommorrow!!!! Night Marc!!! JK I hope I am helping you with this!!

Yes you are :-) i would just like to tell you i missed my doctors appointment today :-( (i am terrible at getting up early lol) anyway i have made another one for 5:10pm Thursday :-) the last two days my problem has been not so bad, started playing world of warcraft lol which has taken my mind off the problem, i still have a fear of going outside still though :-( thanks for your help bambi :-) :-) :-) will let you know what the doc says Thursday. many thanks!!!

Now there's a Freudian Slip up!!!! Not going to a doctors appointment!!!! Anyway did you ask your parents if you had nightmares or fears when you were younger?!!!

Yeah but me dad cant remember, i don't think i did though, its something that is quite recent, i mean when i was banging on the door screaming i can't remember dreaming about anything lol weird ey?

I'm sorry to hear that you missed your appointment! I have a sister who suffers from anxiety problems like this (well and I do too to a smaller extent) and a lot of what you are describing sounds like very typical anxiety symptoms! Definitely go see your doctor because if you don't, it can develop into agoraphobia and then you won't want to leave the house at all. Keep me posted on how you're doing, okay?

Hi Marc: Do you want me to send you a wake up message tommorrow!!!! ;-) Remember to mention the nightmares OK? and remember what I said about trying to not go on pills OK? Let me know after!

Yeah i will defo see me doc tomorrow, i don't wanna be afraid to go out all the time :-( and yeah send us a wake up call XD 5 in the afternoon, i shoukd get uo for that XD today i got quite drunk XD and me mind went off my problem, but now i am sober and by my self it's quite bad again :-( the breathing thing is back :-( i hate it i just wish it would go away!!!

Hi MArc: I know I keep joking with you - just to keep things light - but I DO understand your Anxiety/Panic - I have suffered for years from it - due to some BIG things. So I don't want to minimilize what you are going through OK? Just know that! I just don't want you to be put on some drug, that might make you worse that's all. And STOP drinking! It makes you feel better for the time, but then you wake up and it feels worse. IF the doctor does put you on something, you wont be able to drink anyways. I've been through it all hon, just trying to lead you down a differant path than what I took. And trying to lead you away from making the same mistakes I did, and get you to a better outcome that I EVENTUALLY got to. So If I can get your from A - C without having to go through B - which stands for you know what!!! ;-) - Then I will OK? So just be truthful with the doctor and be open to his/her opinions, and REALLY try to realize where you got this from OK? Good luck hon, I'll give you kick tommorrow!!!! XD ;-)

even though the tests came back ok i am still worried they missed something and there might be something wrong with my heart or lungs, it's really worrying me Sad all i worry about all day is my health, one minute i think it's my heart the next i think it's my lungs, i have even thought there might be a tumor in my throat i know it sounds crazy but i am convinced there is something wrong with me, also it gets worse when i am moving about it seems now :-( like just going up stairs fatigues me :-( :-( that is why i keep thinking something is wrong with me psychically but then i think well that must of showed up on the tests at the hospital and then i think what i said earlier what if they missed something, i am so worried now :-(

Ok I want you to sit still for a minute and AFTER reading this I want you to do some exercises for me OK? I want you to do the breathing exercises of breathing throuhg your mouth and putting one finger on one nostril and breathing out through the other. Then do that 5 times and then switch nostrils. Focus on something either on the wall or on the ceiling, keep looking at it and breathe deeply and slowly. IF c**p comes into your mind get rid of it and re focus. You need to start learning to relax - which DOESN'T include WARCRAFT!!!

When you see the doctor just bring up about you being fatigued with the stairs OK?

Now this is the most important thing I'm going to tell you ok? You probably wont believe me, but its all true.

When you have an anxiety/panic issue, your calm/regular brain cannot comprehend that ALL of these terrible symptoms can be related to your brain being overwhelmed! It's like you think "How can a little panic cause me to have such heart and breathing problems" But it CAN and DOES. On one of my MAJOR panic attacks, the ambulance was called by my husband, I thought "this is it!" I told my children I loved them and they hooked me up to the monitor my heart was EVERYWHERE! We got to the hospital and they hooked me up, and just stood there and watched me!!! I was like "HELLO!!!!!!! I'm having a heart attack here!!!" So after I calmed down and the cardiologist came and told me there was nothing wrong with my heart!!!!!!!! I was in total denial! He then explained to me what I will explain to you! "Your brain is like a big electrical organ, that constantly send out electrical impulses, when it is off or stressed out, EVERYTHING is out of whack" So that is why you breath fast, your heart is pounding, you twitch or blink fast etc. He told me not to come back unless it had not stopped for 4 days!!!!! Then I had to go for some other heart tests, and I met the girl that did my ECG her heart did that hundreds of times a day, she walked around like there was nothing wroing - because there wasn't! it's hard to wrap your mind around. You've seen movies where people breath into paperbags? Well this is what you can do too, when your body takes back in your exhaled breath it calms the muscles and mind. So you can do that if you're having a hard time breathing.

When they check you out and give you the results, you HAVE to undersand them and BELIEVE them OK? They see people with panic and anxiety all the time ALSO they see people with Heart problems and breathing problems all the time, so they WILL know what is happening with you hon! Just trust them! IF they want to put you on pills, Then see what is the shortest amount of time you can take them for OK? Please promise me that! I am so scared for you having the adverse affects - because of your age - but I also want you to have a fullfilling life. So check into it, AND then check into having some counselling and support groups in your area. I went to counselling and I thought I didn't need it, and I DID!!! and it was one of the best decisions I made. So this is what I want for you too OK? Take deep breaths, get off the computer, don't listen to Megadeath or anything with a loud Bass and get some rest OK! Actually drink a glass of warm milk - it works!!!!!

XD i don't like milk XD yeah i will take your advice as you've been there your self, i just want the old me back where i was happy and always active and sociable, i used to love getting out my house but now i just want to be in all the time :-(