Erratic, arrythmic breathing

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So I'm bumping this again, with an added description/question. I came across "lack of urgency to breathe" and "respiratory absentmindedness" in an older post with only one response, so little info. But that's also how I'd describe my own scary breathing: like my brain isn't reading and responding to the proper signals and is thus in no rush to inhale. When I exercise, my heart rate increases but my respiratory rate does not - it stays slow and heavy. In conjunction with my gastroparesis, distended abdomen, constipation, and severe throat constriction and dysphagia, it seems like dysautonomia - and that's not frightening at all, haha. Just in case a few others are experiencing this too....

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This has been happening to me often.  I can feel my body forgetting to breathe for a second and then gasping for air, panting for several breathes and then forgetting to breathe again - over and over and over again.  It is maddening.