I have a lot of pain symptoms but also have a ton of weird non-pain symptoms, too. I get other problems like:
- shortness of breath or like I can't get enough air or a full breath
- smothering/choking feelings
- skipped heartbeat sensations which make me cough
- light wheezing
- sinus drainage
- cough
- sensations where my chest or lungs will feel like it's closing up or full of cotton or otherwise just plain weird for a few seconds then it goes back to normal
- feelings like my throat is closing
- tickly sensations in my chest or throat
- feeling of something poking me in my throat
- tight feeling in chest
- sensation of pressure on or in chest
- feeling like a balloon is expanding in stomach or chest or pushing up into chest from stomach
- dry eyes
- clicking in ears
I have read a lot of posts about pain and I have that too and lots of it and quite randomly, but sometimes it's these other symptoms that scare the crud out of me, especially the breathing ones.
I have run to the docs so many times and spent thousands being told just to calm down, it's anxiety. It's hard to accept that when you're sitting there with a wheeze or feel like you are smothering or your lungs are full of cotton or something for a few seconds at a time. But then again it is weird that the symptoms usually change every some-odd days and also only seem to lasts for seconds at a time. I'll get the weird feeling like I can't breathe (but I can of course) for a few seconds, then it's gone. It will come back many times a day for some odd days then go away and then I'll have something else to worry about.
Right now I'm getting the weird breathing thing but very little chest pain. I am having back and shoulder aching and stiffness and LOTS of post nasal drip with a real tight cough. I keep checking my pulse, too.
Can all this be TMS? Anyone else get weird breathing symptoms that come and go like that?
I keep starting to think "OMG it's my heart!" and want to run to the doc but I'm really not sure what they can do since I know my lungs are clear and I'm obviously breathing. It's probably something from the sinuses (I had a bad cold last week) or because my husband mentioned that his lungs felt "full of concrete" some days back when he caught my cold. Can I be that suggestible? I had not had any problem with breathing before that at least not this way and not for a long while.
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Non-Pain symptoms
Posted - 02/24/2010 : 07:09:54
