breathing senstivty due to weather

[Warwick C]

Does any one else have a sensitivity to carbon dioxide/ oxygen levels.

In humid or rainy weather I notice a shortness of breath,with a more pronounced exhale. I et the feeling my body is trying to adjust for different oxygen levels in the air.

 

[Judge]

Colder, more condensed air always seems to aggravate my sinuses. However I do suffer from year-round allergies as well. Yet the high altitude I live in doesn't seem to produce any noticeable effects in itself though.

The most pronounced breathing difficulties I ever had not relative to allergies? That's easy. Spending time in metropolitan Los Angeles.

 

[Kelly]

Only thing I get is when the wind is blowing if it blows directly in my face I can't breathe at all and even after it stops I struggle to breathe properly again, sometimes I go into full on panic attack when it happens. I've gone outside towards the car, wind blows in my face and I've had to go back in and sit down for 10 minutes to clam down and literally catch my breath. My nose always runs if it's cold outside regardless of whether I have a cold or anything but I'm assuming that has something to do with the sudden drop in temperature between indoors and outdoors.

 

[Warwick C]

I hope this thread may be able to help others. By knowing they are not alone, and that WE may be able to work out a cause.

Thanks Judge and Kelly hopefully we can get the ball rolling, it is most likely different between us but there may be some common factors.

 

[Warwick C]

I have wonder if it is a PH level problem base on or heightened sensitivity. With the oxygen and carbon dioxide levels being change by the humidity, changing the blood PH Levels.
Then that can effect the rest of the body. I have read up reasonably extensively on hyperventilation, but have had no answers as to the weather issue.

 

[Judge]

A timely thread, Warwick. I was grousing only a few days ago about having to again take minor amounts of Loratidine (Claritin) given how much colder it has gotten. That cold air gets to me at night when I turn down the thermostat to around 63 degrees Fahrenheit.

 

[Warwick C]

I noticed it was quite bad for me yesterday. I was doing a gym program that I was able to do reasonably easily on Wednesday, then Friday it was a struggle with unsteadiness on my feet.
The day was of light rain, high humidity. Because of the unsteadiness, I cut short the program for the day. So I am wondering if there is any connection with an aspies heightened sensitivity. As well as to help others and myself.

 

[Judge]

So I am wondering if there is any connection with an aspies heightened sensitivity. As well as to help others and myself.

I am quite curious about this as well. Especially whether various allergic reactions per se would or could be amongst such sensitivities or if they constitute something completely separate and unrelated to AS. I have had to deal with some pretty serious allergies all my life going from the irritating to lethal reactions. My gut feeling is that they are unrelated in my own case...but I really have no idea.

 

[Judge]

Need to get outside today...and we are having a temperature inversion. Means very poor air quality. Should be interesting to see if it bothers me.

 

[Warwick C]

Judge - I am just wondering how you got on with your breathing, when you had to go outside.

I had my gym session yesterday and had limited breathing issues, but not enough to stop me from
finishing the session. Wednseday was a bit harder, in that I had to work around others and was not
able to spread the excercises for my legs enough. Mostly legs and some upper body and stretches
to help my breathing.

 

[Judge]

It was weird. I seemed to be able to breath ok, but the visible air pollution looked horrendous.

Metropolitan Reno is more or less a valley surrounded by mountains, so if and when we have inversions like this, it gets really ugly. But I still had the ability to take a deep breath where I wouldn't be able to if I was in Los Angeles.

Of course with the subzero temperatures we've been having, I'm also perpetually stuffy and need to take Loratidine to sleep and breathe at night. It becomes intolerable if I let the thermostat get below 63 degrees while trying to sleep.

 

[Warwick C]

It sound your breathing was the best you could hope for Judge. Some thing I learnt at the beginning of the year was that I had a poor exhale, so I was not getting a full inhale when I was breathing. That was due to weak abdominal mussles, Which I have been working on this year. So the in and out breath is just as important.

 

[Judge]

It sound your breathing was the best you could hope for Judge. Some thing I learnt at the beginning of the year was that I had a poor exhale, so I was not getting a full inhale when I was breathing. That was due to weak abdominal mussles, Which I have been working on this year. So the in and out breath is just as important.

That's a frightening thing to me when in Los Angeles on a bad smog day. Not being capable of a full inhale.

Kind of like my having pulmonary atrial convulsions scaring me. If I paid too much attention to a lack of being able to breath fully, it would cause me to panic when I was very young. Wow...never thought about the integrity of my abdominal muscles in that equation. Good point...