After visiting my GP several times with on going "vague" and untraceable symptoms, she advised me to see a physical therapist who specialises in psychosomatic physical therapy. It would help me with my inexplicable heart palpitations, stuffiness and general stress related symtoms. I kept hearing "it's probably stress" everywhere I went, but decided to ditch my skepticism and give it a try.

During physical therapy I'd learn about breathing and relaxation exercises. And though I definitely take stuff like that seriously now, it seems my symptoms have never been worse then they are right now. It's driving me to the point of insanity that the hypochondriac in me (which has been absent for YEARS) is even somewhat convinced there's something worse going on inside my body (for example; tumor). I'm trying REALLY hard not to listen to that and keep working on my breathing exercises but nothing seems to really help.

Last night, while trying to sleep was a low point for me. I was SO stuffy that I felt I was going to choke and I slightly let that panic get to me. The breathing has been getting worse for weeks now and last night I just broke down crying, literally yelling at myself why I was doing this to myself (I know that's not really how anxiety works but I just needed someone to blame). I ended up sleeping 2 hours and my is starting to feel like it's slowly shutting down:

My bowel movement has become insanely SLOW to a point where it's frustrating the hell out of me. My belly is bloated ALL the time. I can't eat even a little thing without feeling bloated. My ribs hurt, my lungs hurt, my throat hurts, I feel like I have this piece of food stuck in my throat. My nose is somewhat on and off stuffy as well with means I breath through my mouth all the time. I've had to add dizziness to the list in the last few days. The panic that comes from the feeling of not getting enough air is only adding stress. And on top of that everyone acts like I'm doing it to myself and should just stop thinking about it and that'll be all. I'm starting to feel like I'm this close to breaking down crying. I can't get this breathing under control properly. On top of that it's making me incredibly anxious even more than I ever was!

Please does anyone have any tips? Any certain way to lie down while trying to sleep to help me breathing. Any quick thing I can do to reset my breathing for a few minutes (so I can fall asleep). I'm already exercising, trying my breathing workouts and I've tried the relaxation methods. I'm not looking for a quick fix but please any piece of advice will help.

I've made an appointment with my GP tomorrow to have my stomach and lungs checked. At the very least I hope it'll take my fears away of there being something worse wrong with me. I'm also thinking of asking her to provide me with some form of medication to relax. I know those are dangerous but I feel I need some form of jump start to get things going so I can take it from there. I don't know how well "tranquillisers" work for people with these breathing problems. There's no way I can relax with the way I'm feeling now and at this point I'm begging someone to just punch me in a coma lol. So I can rest for a bit.

If I may add I've always been a stressy person but I've NEVER had these breathing problems. Or at least they've never been a problem. Now I can't get rid of them. Please help anything will do.