Couldnt get my breath for a minute

[PatriciaH]

Cooking tea tonight and all of a sudden i couldnt breath, i panicked a bit and my husband grabbed me from behind and sort of did the heimlick manouvere (spelling? ) i got my breath back but it didnt half scare me ...could of understood if id been sampling the food and itd gone down the wrong way but i hadnt , why / how did this happen ? no silly answers please ,im serious
ta, trish

[bigmamma]

Oh Patricia poppet , are you alright now ? That must have been scary for you both . I don't know how that happened so I'm no use there , but just want to ask if you're ok now ((( hug ))) xxx

[rac1984]

don't really know why it happened but don't think chest thrust (heimlick manouvere) would've helped anyway. Could be wrong, but the way I remember in my first aid training is that something has to be stuck in order to do a chest thrust (the action is used to force the stuck object back up the airway) but seenas you hadn't eaten/swallowed anything, I don't think this was the way to go. Completely understand why your hubby may have done it tho, must have been very scarey for both of you. Hope your ok now x

[rac1984]

in other words, you probably sorted it out yourself so try not to panic. Wasn't trying to sound mean. If worried though, go see your GP x

[Drisgirl]

O sorry -bit ,me being me would phone NHS24 or else I would worry.
Patricia -were you or are are you under stress at all -dont answer on here but just think because to my mind its like a wee panic attack and they can hit you when you least expect it.I was once getting it on with H and I had one and I tell you it took me all my time to compose myself as I knew if I didnt continue then I would be fearful forever.I did and although i still have flashbacks its fine now but it took a lot of resolve to keep going.
Thats serious BTW -I wouldnt say that if it wasnt to help you.

[sir.knobby]

Blood pressure? maybe get it checked it also sounds like a bit like sleep apnea when you stop breathing in your sleep did you nod of for a while? and I get sleep apnea sometimes and the worst thing you can do is panic that will only make it worse

[PatriciaH]

Im fine now thanks mamma x
I dont think i am, or feeling under any stress , as i said i was just cooking the sunday dinner when... wham ! i went to take a normal breath and ...nothing .... god i panicked i can tell you , ive had a bad pain in my right arm for a couple of weeks now , in the muscles and in my hand , no chest pains at all thank god , i do suffer with fibromyalgia though, so im putting it down to that , god i feel old at the minute !

[puss_boots]

Hello Trish, I hope you are ok now, it's scary when you can't breathe, sometimes when you are doing something like cooking, reading, on puter etc you can forget to breathe properly and just swallowing something like your own spit can lead to a reaction like you had, Don't worry about it if it was just a one off, it's just that you swallowed and just like you gulped a drink too
fast it went down the wrong hole. I hope thats is clear I don't know how else to explain it.

[babybow]

cooking fumes for your hun in future refuse to cook !!
hope you are feeling ok :)

[MsEVP]

Hi Patricia:

The same thing happened to me a couple of years ago. In fact, it happened twice, in the exact same spot in Tesco`s !
The first time was, say, just for a couple of seconds and then about 3 months later it was for much longer, perhaps 1/2 a minute. It was the most frightening that can happen to you. You don`t usually think about breathing and then, suddenly, nothing moves and you do!

I was just walking around shopping, not eating anything. So the Heimlich manoeuvre doesn`t help. I wasn`t under any stress at the time. In retrospect, I wondered if it could have been a reaction to some noxious fumes that I couldn`t smell, obviously. Doctor`s opinion was that it could have been a panic attack! Ha!

I DO empathize with you and hope that it was a one-off occasion.