Without the fluid build up I can get this same reaction from climbing stairs, hills, etc. Due to fluid build up in my lungs my SOB is not always caused from walking. I have the typical pursed pale lips that show a dull shade of blue. It feels like my inner chest is burning inside. The breaths I take seem so shallow and if I try to relax and take deep breaths, it seems as if the lungs are clamped shut. The air simply refuses to enter the lungs. It feels to me like I have an ace bandage wrapped around my middle, from my neck to the upper abdomen. My SOB started right after my first pacer.onset of CHF without my knowledge of it at that time. But it is still REAL!Ĭan you imagine what those kind of symptoms do to a cardio trying to figure out what is wrong w/ you when he is short time & looking for a heart problem that is masked by a psychological problem? At least mine knows that the heart issue really exists so I don't get blown off as a hysterical man. Now, OBVIOUSLY a major component of my SOB is psychological. I was able to get up the hill w/ very little labored breathing and never even got close to panting & my HR never got to the point that I noticed it being faster than expected. She had to stop at least three times & lean against a streetlight post. Now Wife has real problems walking & somehow, we had to get her up the hill, if for no other reason than that's where our car was parked. We had to CLIMB the hill - about a 400 ft elevation change in half a mile. Shortly before the game started, the snow started & got so bad that the shuttle bus operation between the main level where the dining hall is located & the stadium is was halted. Once I get involved, my mind focuses on doing it & my breathing returns to normal for the level of effort required.į'rtinstance - Last Oct 30, wife & I were going to a football game at West Point in New York - guests of a Daughter who is a grad. If I am facing an unpleasant job to do, I get SOB just before starting it & for a "Short while" after starting it. Then I needed the PM & guess what! One of the symptoms of that was SOB. MY SOB is a triple-edged sword! I've suffered PTSD for nearly 40 yrs & my principal physical symptom has always been SOB - in one of its many forms above. * Hyperventilating due to stress/anxiety. Like right now while sitting here thinking about it. * "Labored" breathing while inactive, but under stress/anxiety. * An inability to "Get enough air" while walking on the flat & level and wanting to stop & rest. Like the desire to stop walking while climbing a hill - even a gentle-sloped hill. * A perceived inability to "Get enough air" while exerting myself. I always stop before I get to the point of gasping for air. * Rapid respiration ("Panting") when exercising or exerting myself working - beyond what I thought should be "NORMAL" for me. You caught a bunch of nightowls - unless they are early birds in the UK! done another stent was place in the back part of the heart.Ĭongestive heart failure also goes with SOB (I don't have that yet, Thank GOD).Īnyway, if you trouble breathing doing NORMAL/REGULAR things please DO NOT TAKE IT LIGHTLY (we'd like to have you around to talk back and forth to from time to time). Again when there were 2 stents placed because I just could not breath, again this past August when I got to where oxygen was required and after cath. First encounted when my first PM was implanted over 20 years ago. feeling of just plain passing out with simple tasks (as pushing a wheelbarroe, lawnmower,baby carriage)Ĥ.anything that requires a rapid response. very rapid breathing (as walking a brisk walk, up stairs/down stairs)ģ. gasping for breath (as after a 25/50 yard dash)Ģ. I feel like I could write a book on it.ġ. I think if you ever have SOB it will NEVER need to be described to you. But if everyone else is like me it is basically the same. I think everyone will/does describe SOB differently. Bit like a car with a sticky accelerator.Īs a matter of interest the Doc was intrigued that the only real adverse symptom I had was this lack of puff and it is the case that otherwise I felt great, but the 24 hour halter test showed that my HR got down to 26 at times and that perhaps was getting too close to zero for comfort! The interesting thing was that the breathlessness or lack of puff only lasted until I got going and then I was OK. That was OK by itself (as I have always had a slow HR), but the only other symptom was that I got puffed doing stuff that I could do easily before. Early this year I noticed that my heart rate had declined from around the low 50s to the low forties and even high thirties. I was diagnosed 9 years ago with sick sinus syndrome and was told that it would be a matter of time before an implant would be necessary. Breathlessness was the symptom that alerted me to the fact that my time had come for a PM.
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