observation

[rikibeth]

The breathing issues aren't really exertion-related.

Reclining at 45 degrees is better than standing or sitting upright.

Dry heat is better than moist heat -- I gasp in the shower, I'm pretty good in the car with the heater cranked. (Cold sucks.)

Booze helps.

Therefore, the ideal solution would be to park myself on a deck lounger at a nice beach, with attentive cabana boys bringing me umbrella drinks.

Think I can get a prescription for that?

Comments

[recessional]

I keep reading these posts and being weirdly fascinated because it all seems so . . . random. I mean, it really sounds like you've ruled out most purely physical causes, but it seems like such a random set of conditions that set it off.

[rikibeth]

Horses-not-zebras says anxiety. The conditions that help it are all things I find relaxing... I am a basking lizard.

[cupcake_goth]

I wish you could get a prescription for that. I am also raising my eyebrows almost off my forehead at the "Exercise! That will help with possible anxiety-triggered breathing issues!" thing.

[rikibeth]

geekgirlintraining has offered to make me graphics of Paul McGann, Samuel West, and Kiefer Sutherland c. 1993 saying affectionate and encouraging things, for her to post after I finish exercising. As she cannot produce them to give me an actual smooch every time I do it.