Asthma / constant breathing trouble

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Does anyone have asthma or breathing problems related to benzos? Has anyone gotten better? Has anything helped?

  In 2015 after I finished a week of prescribed steroids I developed heart arrhythmia and severe breathing problems, took beta blockers and was eventually given Klonopin.  After a month I was taken off beta blockers and after a few days my breathing improved, I was down to .25 mg of Klonopin, had a glorious week of close to normal breathing, then developed a bad fungal infection in my throat, mouth, and perhaps my airways (from mold in the heating and air conditioning system at my old job, I'd had this problem before but never so bad) and I haven't had a normal breath since then.  I tried to jump off klonopin that week, and within hours my breathing became really bad, my doctor said don't worry about getting off klonopin while fighting the infection, and I ended up addicted. My breathing degraded the longer I took Klonopin.

  Anyways, I'm almost a year free of benzos, all my other sxs are mostly gone, my main problem is constant trouble breathing.  I had told various doctors during my year of benzo hell that the constriction was in my throat, they could see that I was struggling (an allergist who saw me at what by that time was my normal extreme level of breathing difficulty was so alarmed he sent me to the ER), but whenever they checked my blood/oxygen levels I was always 99-100% oxygenated, an inhaler did not help, and that was the end of their interest. So all I could do was gasp and wheeze all day and night, praying to make it to another day. I ate a very clean diet.

  Towards the end of my hell year I took Zyprexa for a month, it's an anti-psychotic, which actually helped.  The first day after taking Zyprexa my breathing improved about 50% and the tight ball of fear I'd become had loosened a little, so I realize that by that time a part of my breathing problem was psychological. However, I'm back to feeling mostly like my pre-benzo cool, calm and collected self.... but I still have trouble breathing.  My chest is sore I think from having to breath a little harder than normal.  When I try to exercise faster than a walk my throat starts to close up, and the extra tightness can last for days.  I finally got a referral to see a pulmonologist a few weeks ago, I saw him on a relatively good breathing day. He said I have borderline asthma, and that people can develop asthma when they get older (I'm 40).  Although I've had a few asthma incidents in the past and acknowledge that it could be a coincidence that I developed constant asthma at the same time that I became addicted to benzos, I just find it incredibly suspicious. 

 

[[Ca...]]

And for the asthma I was prescribed Cingulair, which I have not yet taken, I'm just very leery of any new medication, I don't want to be on anything.

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This might be a coincidence also but within a few weeks of taking klonopin I started to wheeze a bit at night and when I went to get my breathing checked i was told I had late on set asthma, I really do think it was brought on by the klonopin (a few months after starting the klonopin I went cold turkey and the wheezing got better but I had to reinstate and the wheezing came back) and can only hope that it goes away when I am off. I use an inhaler (advair) to control the wheezing.

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i finished in hospital with asthma attack in wd. never before or after i did not have it.