Can jogging help relieve the extreme discomfort that comes due to shallow breathing?
Due to chronic shallow breathing, it is possible that your residual capacity (air left in lungs after complete exhalation) is decreased. A low residual capacity can cause this feeling of not getting a big enough breath. Any excercise can help increase this residual capacity basically because it will cause you to take deeper breaths. You can also work on this even if your just watching television or playing on the computer. When your sitting around and you think about it: 1. Take as big of a breath as you can. Remember, slow deep breath. 2. When you get as much air in as you possibly can, hold it for 2-3 seconds. 3. Breath out slowly using pursed-lip-breathing (like blowing out a candle). Do this about 10 times in a row every now and again. I expect this will benefit you greatly. I hope I have helped. God bless. P.S. If the doctors did not do a PFT(pulmonary function test) then they do not know if your residual capacity is low or not.
