sarah7
14-01-10, 21:06
Hi,
Over Christmas I had a dry hacking cough for 2-3 weeks that has mostly gone now. But the last few days I've had a tight chest (sometimes more of an ache) that feels kind of pressurey, and difficulty breathing and I find I keep yawning. And I've started to cough up a little phlegm now but as the cough I had recently was very dry that concerns me. I get a little pain sometimes, not always, in my back and/or chest when I do breathe deeply. Sometimes I also feel like I'm maybe forgetting to breathe or something because I realise I'm not breathing and I feel like I could sort of stop breathing for longer than I ought to be able to.
It's starting to really concern me, but as in the past when I do suffer with more severe anxiety it is usually my breathing it affects. I keep thinking it could be something like fluid in my lungs, or heart trouble, or a tumour or something.
I had a bit of an anxiety attack a couple of nights ago, but I don't know if thats related as I'd just had a very stressful day and the above issues were happening a few days before that anyway.
It's realyl worrying me so if anyone has suffered anything similar I'd really appreciate a response.
Thank you,
Sarah.
Over Christmas I had a dry hacking cough for 2-3 weeks that has mostly gone now. But the last few days I've had a tight chest (sometimes more of an ache) that feels kind of pressurey, and difficulty breathing and I find I keep yawning. And I've started to cough up a little phlegm now but as the cough I had recently was very dry that concerns me. I get a little pain sometimes, not always, in my back and/or chest when I do breathe deeply. Sometimes I also feel like I'm maybe forgetting to breathe or something because I realise I'm not breathing and I feel like I could sort of stop breathing for longer than I ought to be able to.
It's starting to really concern me, but as in the past when I do suffer with more severe anxiety it is usually my breathing it affects. I keep thinking it could be something like fluid in my lungs, or heart trouble, or a tumour or something.
I had a bit of an anxiety attack a couple of nights ago, but I don't know if thats related as I'd just had a very stressful day and the above issues were happening a few days before that anyway.
It's realyl worrying me so if anyone has suffered anything similar I'd really appreciate a response.
Thank you,
Sarah.