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Labored breathing
When a person has difficulty breathing & requires more effort to do it, likely requires other muscles called accesory muscles of breathiong. By using your neck, shoulder & uuper body parts to help breath in an abnormal pattern.
Dr. Alvaro Aranda reviewed this
37 year experience in Pulmonology
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A 28-year old male asked:
What is the definition or description of: labored breathing?
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A 42-year old asked:
I have hard, labored breathing while lying down. What can cause this?
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A 39-year old asked:
Labored breathing, hard to get deep breath. What is wrong?
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A 25-year old female asked:
Labored breathing. It feels like a chore. Cough sensation and coughing every now and then.
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Can sinus problems cause labored breathing?
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Could a burst appendix cause labored breathing and why?
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What would be the symptoms (aside from labored breathing) of a punctured lung and how could you detect it?
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A 47-year old asked:
My wife is in labor.These horrible contractions that cause her to have labored breathing and pain in her back? Epidural?
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A 92-year old asked:
What do labored breathing with yawning mean? Is either associated with vasovagal or hypotensive event? What about pallor?
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A 52-year old female asked:
Asthma can lungs just close up or stop with no wheezing or labored breathing when feels like lungs are not opening and closing?
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A 30-year old asked:
Will a lung infection cause labored breathing and intense pain?
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A 27-year old male asked:
2mg of subutex 1 hour after 10mg percocet Now i feel like iM going into seratonin syndrom. Rapid heart beat, labored breathing?
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A 32-year old asked:
If someone has liver failure with malignant ascites and exhaustion and labored breathing what is the prognosis for how long they will live?
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A female asked:
My 3 year old has a 103 temp and deep cough, labored breathing. Do i take her to the ER ore treat the fever and wait to see my pediatrician?
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A 23-year old male asked:
I quitted smoking 2 months ago but i feel till now shortness of breath,chest tighness,labored breathing and i feel my lung congested but i didnt cough and i didn't have any of those while smoking recently i started cough small amounts of white sputum?
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A female asked:
I am a 49 yr old female with hypertension in family. Tricuspid a bicuspid. Bp is prehypertension but does go hypertensive throughout day with daily activity. Clammy sweating thru the day with sometimes labored breathing and chest pain. Night sweats ?
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A male asked about a 22-year old male:
ULQ pain that radiates to L shoulder. Some chest pain and labored breathing.Also fatigued w/ joint pain, unusual bruising and loss of appetite. What?
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A 17-year old female asked:
Sleepy all day when slept 8 hrs , sharp stabbing chest pain, & labored breathing cause? History htn and pcos provera (medroxyprogesterone) and lisinopril hctz
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A 18-year old female asked:
Good morning. My symptoms are slight labored breathing when laying down, slight chest heaviness on right lung. No fever, no cough, no sore throat. I can do daily activities fine, but just overall chest discomfort. No pain when exhale/inhale.
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A 56-year old male asked:
Cough, gurggling/labored breathing,coughing up green mucus,started 5/11 with runny nose,sore throat,fever 2 days later,on levoquin+albuterol 5days?
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A 41-year old asked:
Is there any home treatment for labored breathing?
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A 53-year old male asked:
Finished my antibiotics fr sinus , still have it with labored breathing?
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A 32-year old male asked:
Can allergy cause inflammation of neck airways(apart from nasal airways), leading to labored breathing?
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A female asked about a female:
I'm having a pain level of about 6 just above my right breast, & labored breathing, I've also been having come and go burning sensations in my stomach?
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A 38-year old female asked:
Why do I have labored breathing problem after i eat and i couldn't pass gas for few hours and plus i got stomach virus?
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A 35-year old female asked:
Iv had high blood pressure and labored breathing along w headaches and neck spasms! also have a hypo active thyroid! what could it be?
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A 34-year old male asked:
Feeling of labored breathing comes and go and tightness in lower neck. Can still breathe and exercise but bothering. Doc ruled out bronchitis/Asthma ?
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A 18-year old female asked:
Tonsils swollen w/ white pus, lost voice, fatigue, cough, loss appetite, labored breathing fever 100+ for 5 days. Tested neg. on everything at doctor ?
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A 29-year old female asked:
My 3 yo son has crackles and wheezing, labored breathing and dry cough. Has no fever or runny nose, feels well otherwise and playing like usual, saturation 98%. Just that breathing and noises make me concerned. Could that be pneumonia without fever?
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A male asked:
EKG, chest xray, blood work, CT abdomen all normal. What could be causing LUQ pressure w/ labored breathing? No sharp/burning pain, just constricted.
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