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Att83 I had a similar problem a few years ago, it may or may not be what you have, obviously I am not a doctor.
Anyway, this was around senior year of college. I started getting this feeling that I needed to yawn, and I would start to yawn, but I couldn't complete it. And I would also start sighing a lot, and it felt like I couldn't get complete breaths even though I wasn't coughing or had any nasal congestion. It wasn't like a serious panic attack or anything, but it was annoying and burdensome.
So I went to my regular doctor, and he ran a bunch of tests, such as the machine you blow into to test your lung capacity, and he also had me do a blood test. Everything came back normal. Then I saw a nurse practitioner and she didn't really have any idea what was going on. I was getting very frustrated.
So then I saw a doctor that specializes in asthma and allergies and he diagnosed my problem pretty quickly. He said I had "Dyspnea" which is a pretty general term for shortness of breath. He asked if I had anything particularly stressful going on in my life and I replied that I didn't think my life was very stressful, just the usual college stuff and that I didn't know what I wanted to do with my life. Of course he pointed out that the end of college is a very stressful time for most people, and I realized he was right. He also asked me other questions about when I get this desire to yawn/take deep breaths and it was always when I was awake, and usually if I was not actively doing something that kept my mind busy. I.e. if my mind was not occupied, it would drift off to dreading what I would do after college, I would then feel the need to yawn or breath deeply, I wouldn't be able to, and the cycle would just keep going on. It was getting to the point where I would wake up in the morning and dread having to yawn!
After I told him that he said now that I know what the problem is (and that it was purely mental and not physical) it would largely go away, and it did. Occasionally the feelings come back, but now when I feel them coming on, I just slow my mind down, and breath slowly through my nose (not sure if this will help you, it's just how I deal with it).
Hopefully this little story can be of use to you. Cheers.
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