My breathing after the trauma. 
hopelessminx
17 y
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was recently in a car accident, and one of the many procedures doctors had to do was make an incision on the left side of chest almost under my pit in order to insert a tube and drain the liquids out which were giving me breathing difficulties. Soon after, i was able to sit up straight without feeling dizzy or nauseous. However, its been a few months and my breathing isnt the same as it used to be...I cant really take as deep breaths as i used to, which is saddening since i was somewhat into my breathing excercises. I feel a slight pressure in my upper back and sometimes in my kidney areas whenever i try to inhale hard and fast. I was told my lungs collapsed while i was in the O.R. getting surgery for my perforated bowel, and so i was on breathing tubes for some days.. Could it be that the strength of my lungs has greatly diminished and only time and excercise can strengthen my lungs to the way they used to be? I had lost so much weight, and muscle mass that i practically had to learn to walk again. (my legs were skinny as twigs) Which was pretty wierd since i was a pretty beefy guy, and i worked out hitting a punching bag and training since i was very into boxing. I tried to run up this steep hill in my neighborhood yesterday as a strengthening regime for my legs and although my endurance is ok (not getting tired too fast) I had to stop because it feels as if though something in my lungs is clogged and i start to make this heavy weezing sound and i can hardly breathe! its the wierdest sound. Right after i have to focus enough in order to relax and soon the breathing goes back to nromal. This weezing sound also happens after i cough a little, then i cant breathe and i have to focus again! You know that little soft area right below the throat and above the collar bone or whatever, i can feel the weezing sound coming from there... I dont know, im just hoping the lungs heal well and that with proper excercise my lungs will be come strong again.... Im assuming this happened because my lungs got accustomed to being forced to breathe by a machine, and now i have to strenghen them up myself by excercising... Any suggestions
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- Re: My breathing after the trauma. fledgling
17 y
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This is a reply to # 868,677You bet, Minx!
Don't sweat it!
We never know how things will feel, until they happen to us. And, we don't know how 'healing' will happen, when, or how it will feel along the way.
Your body knows all it needs to, in order to restore itself...but it doesn't tell. We are not born with 'windows'.
You've already set your goals, complete wellness, and, so far, your love of sports. Now let your body choose its own best way. Listen!
Do only what your body wants to do...for as long as it wants to do it.
Forget 'training' programs! Forget all that you learned long ago about 'training'.
You've got your finest personal trainer on the job...your body's 'mind', somewhere in the area of your navel.
Several times per day, smile at it, and let your 'thinking' mind, in your head, stop thinking. (It thinks it is in charge, but it ISN'T. It just comes up with the possibilities, and questions, worries.)
It's the 'body mind' that knows HOW!
Trust that. Smile. You'll make it!
At some time you may have to acknowledge your sadness at the accident...to let it go.
The really neat thing about that is that you don't have to go through the 'agony' of remembering, etc.
All you need to do is...
...a. Say, out loud, "I feel/felt hurt." (NOTHING about 'why' or 'how'.)
...b. Put your arms around yourself.
...c. Say, out loud, "There, there, little one. You'll be okay. I'll take care of you." (Maybe give yourself a little stroking, and patting, just as you would comfort a child.)
Your inner person doesn't care WHO does the comforting, or when...just that it gets DONE!
You'll see...this WORKS!
Then let your own personal trainer, inside, get on with the job.
Easy does it...baby steps.
You're going to be just fine.
Eventually, you will have something greater than all athletes, the knowledge of what it takes to repair and restore...and a fine story to tell your grandchildren!
With you,
Fledgling
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- Re: My breathing after the trauma. r0berta
17 y
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This is a reply to # 868,677
It just takes time. I went through a similar thing myself.
8/6/1994 I was in a horrible head-on collision. My injuries were (starting at the top):
Broken nose, broken jaw, part of my bottom lip was cut off, part of my tongue was cut off, whiplash, several broken ribs, punctured lung, two cracked vertebra in my lower back, left femur (large thigh bone) broken in the neck (where it goes into the hip) and broken mid femur, right femur was dislocated, left hand was crushed but not broken, right hand was broken in three places and dislocated in another - I think that's it.
Because I had the puctured lung, I had a chest-tube due to a pneumothorax also. While I was still in the hospital, they had me breathing in (enhaling) into a device that exercised my lungs and helped me to increase my ability to breath deeply. I don't remember what it was called. It's made out of plastic and it is clear and blue. It has a blue plunger -type thing on it that goes up (or down - don't remember exactly) when you enhale. Measurements on the side indicate how deep your enhaling breathe is. They gave it to me to take home after I got out of the hospital. After a few months of several daily breathing exercises, I was able to breathe normally again.
It's frustrating while you wait to get well. The nice thing is that you are actively involved in your progress when you use the device I mentioned. I just wish I knew what it was called. It's been so long ago now.
I hope you're feeling better really soon,
Roberta
- Re: My breathing after the trauma. hopelessminx
17 y
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This is a reply to # 868,6771. Yea i tell my body what the deal is ;) it knows that ill do the best i can to get it the way it used to be... you mentioned the navel... due to the surgery i needed to repair the perforatede bowel, i now have a scar running down my belly a little passed my belly button... I dont really care about the scar, as much as i care of the meridians or whatever that were severed in my navel (i was a very strong dude before the accident, hope i dont lose it cuz of this accident.) ... Im also wondering about the muscle underneath the belly...Im assuming they had to cut the muscle..how does muscle repair? hopefully ill be able to work it out soon and gett my abs strong again i hope.
2. yea i remember that little device in the hospital.. i left it there :( Guess ill have to depend on breathing excercises...Anyone know any good breathing excercises to help strengthen the lungs? Perhaps fast deep inhales, and slow exhales?- Re: My breathing after the trauma. fledgling
17 y
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I've got one of those scars, too. I call it 'the zipper'.
Other women get 'the smile' so they can supposedly wear bikinis.
As I understand it, there are layers of muscle fibers, running in different directions. I've also heard that male excess stomach weight gathers inside the abdominal muscles, and that a female's is on the outside. I don't know how true this is.
As for breathing exercises, I was taught some yoga-style breathing when I was a little kid. Still, my experience has led me to put greater store in gentle exhaling.
When one exhales, gently, but fully, it is a certainty that the intake will go completely to the bottom of the lungs...not to just the top 1/5 as the average person usually breathes.
And, if a person remembers to exhale on the exertion, when doing a movement, all kinds of good things happen, including the burning of excess fat and improving muscle strength.
Also, I read where a burly truck driver was tested on lifting 10 pounds, by a string through a pulley, with one finger, when his hand was resting over the edge of a desk.
He couldn't do it, at first. After a few days of trying, his body supplied the finger with the energy needed. Pretty smart body, I thought.
Altogether, I say, the body will heal itself, as long as we don't make inappropriate demands of it. In other words, get out of the way!
Forget all the exercises you used to do. You are now in a completely different mode, one you know nothing about.
Listen! Let your thinking brain give up pushing you. Just smile to your body mind, and let it strengthen you in ways you never heard of.
Besides, what else can you do? You are here, like it or not, and your system is working, or else you'd be dead. Go with that! Enjoy it...enjoy what you have, and care for it.
Down off my soapbox now. I won't say another word unless you ask me to. (Smile!)
My very best, Minx.
F.- Thanks fledge. =] n/m hopelessminx 17 y 1,346
- Maybe there is something here for yo... fledgling
17 y
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This is a reply to # 868,972Minx,
I've watched this video six times in the past week or two...
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-153936213309506589&hl=en
The link was given by #78209, and no one tries to 'sell' you anything...it is entirely 'commercial-free'. Even if you wanted to send money, there is no address to send it to!
Just this a.m. it hit me...perhaps this method works on the interplay of relaxation and 'tension'...the relaxation of the subject, and the relative tension of the moving arms of the therapist, intending to restore the energy field.
I'm only guessing, but it may be true.
I have had some very nice results from earlier similar experiments. And that's how one TV fitness/weight-loss guru designed her program...exertion on the exhale, and not much exertion, either. They say this was one of the methods of yoga.
Maybe it works for healing, too.
See what you think. Get a friend to help? And you return the favor?
My blessings, Minx.
Fledgling- The "Optimal Breathing Times".. Ladylove
17 y
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This is a reply to # 869,182Hi Minx:),
I think you will find the following site *loaded* with help and useful information:
http://www.breathing.com
Enjoy :).
Good Health to All of Us,
Ladylove :)
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