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How do you experience breathing problems?

Hi, I was hoping you could share what breathing problems feel like for you.
For me, it's mostly feeling a pressure on my chest and lightheadedness/feeling like I'm about to faint.
But I don't experience anything like wheezing or appearing out of breath or something like that. This makes it difficult for me to search medical help for it, since it's all just 'feelings' instead of actual visible signs of breathing weakness/difficulties. Sometimes I randomly start sighing deeply, other times it feels more like my urge to breathe just becomes almost absent?
Is this familiar to any of you?
Thanx in advance 😀

  1. I had MG Crisis and was hospitalized for ten days. I honestly don't remember what happened. I only remember being in the hospital.
    The second time I had trouble breathing was when my ophthalmologist asked how I was. He was the one who originally diagnosed me. I said I felt like I couldn't get enough air. He told me to go to the ER.
    The thing is I never feel like I'm getting enough air. I'd have to constantly deep breathe to get enough air.
    It's hard to walk distances or even around a mall. Stairs leave me breathless.
    My neurologist had me to the breath/lung test and it shows I'm stable. My lungs are fine. So my difficulty remains my own challenge. My breathing is shallow.
    Am I concerned for no reason?

  2. Breathing is a problem for me even with a short walk. I simple have to rest till my Breathing is better and I am not so light headed

  3. At my worst my diaphragm is just too exhausted to work.

  4. I experience big sighs in my breathing. I was diagnosed with OcularMG. I get Diplopia ( dbl vision). quite often

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