This is an excellent suggestion. Check before activity and when you start to feel a bit breathless. |
Talking may cause you to breathe less, especially if you speak quickly and don't pause. |
I replied the other day re: allergies and had another thought for you. Sometimes it really is just how you talk & breath while in motion. Things can get out of sync. It could be sometjing as simple as your posture while in motion that causes the sense of breathlessness. If it is nothing medical (heart, lungs), I'd consider seeing a speech langue pathologist. They can work with helping you learn to keep your airway open during exercise. |
Can the pp please come back and elaborate on this? I sound just like u (I’m the thin and “in shape” pp who had always been winded walking up one flight of stairs and have ruled out everything obvious, asthma, anemia, vit D, lungs, treadmill test etc). Help! This is a lifetime issue and annoying. Plus my extremities go numb in like ten minutes in 50 degreee weather, I don’t think my heart is pumping blood well enough to get to them in mild cold weather. |
So I’m the pp who was enlightened by this threat to get my heart checked out. I shouldn’t have read the results of the echo on a Friday night as now I’m wondering what the heck “mild to moderate aortic insufficiency” means! I have the full trans echo as well as the stress echo earlier today. The trans echo resulted in the quote from above, plus some mild regurgitation. I’m not sure what the results of the stress echo mean, but it says my hearts capacity with exercise is “average” (I’m a high achiever who lives a healthy and active life this makes me sad!!) |
Do you have allergy induced asthma?
Try this. Walk alone but keep talking to yourself. Put a phone bud on so you look like you are on the phone. Are you out of breath at the end? Also, do you not take water with you? Are you dehydrated? |
It's also allergy season - so this could be impacting your lungs. Are you doing this in high temperatures? Are you dehydrated? Exhausted? If the route is mainly flat, are you equally winded on the flats and uphills? Do you wear a fitbit or apple watch to see what your heart rate is during these walks? I would be concerned once you rule out or determine a few more pieces of the puzzle. |
This. My mother had similar symptoms that turned out to be cardiomyopathy. Go to your doctor. You need a stress test, ultrasound, etc. |
Have you seen a cardiologist? |
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NP and just tossing this out there; are you in dcumlandia area or perhaps a high altitude location?
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At 44?! No not normal! I’m 44 and can hit tennis balls with DH without getting about of breath. A neighborhood walk should not be impacting your heart like that. |
Raynauds- that’s the numb extremities in 50 degree weather. |
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