Originally Posted by
unterhausen
In my case, I think I get this as a symptom of asthma. I used to think I had exercised induced asthma, but I have problems even when I'm not exercising.
Mine started as exercise induced asthma and then expanded to become stress induced asthma.
I recall a speech I did in one of my classes ... about 30 seconds into the speech, I couldn't breathe. I tried slowing down my pace so I could suck some air in, and tried exhaling between sentences, and ended up just gasping noisily about every 4 words. That 5 minute speech felt like it lasted forever.
The other students in the class had to write a sentence about my speech and hand it to me, and just about all of them commented that I needed to work on my breathing!!
For the rest of that degree, any time I had to do a speech, I used my inhaler first.