What do you guys think it could be?

[sacolucci]

Hi everybody,

I am new to this board but have suffered with sometimes debilitating anxiety for 12 years. I got my first panic attack when I was 16 years old which then manifested into Generalized Anxiety Disorder. Anyways, over the last couple of years I have managed to control and maybe even get rid of my anxiety by reading books by Eckhart Tolle, doing Yoga and engaging in meditations. I have also been pregnant in the last year and currently have a 3 month old at home.

My question is, lately, I have been feeling this chest heaviness and sensation of labored breathing. Its like I can take a full breath through my mouth or if I yawn but not through my nose. I used to have asthma when I was about 12 years old but that included bouts of heavy coughing at night. I went to the doctors and they didn't "hear" anything wrong with my chest and did an emergency x-ray of my lungs to see if I had a collapsed lung because of the tightness that comes and goes and everything came out normal. Also, I started dieting and doing intense bootcamp to get back into shape and I noticed the first sensation of this chest heaviness came on after a workout last week and since then it has been coming and going throughout the days. Needless to say though, it freaked my right out when it happened the first time and maybe my anxiety kept perpetuating it or is now. What do you guys think? It is stress related or ashtma. My doctor gave me a puffer but I don't really see a difference and if I do it could be psychological like a placebo effect. Any thoughts?

[Cuchculan]

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