CANT BREATH

You should focus on it. Practice mindfulness. 4 seconds to inhale. Hold for 2. Exhale for 6. Repeat for 5 to 10 min. Just think about the breath and nothing else

Chlorine?! What is he a swimming pool? You mean Chloroquine. Please don't go into medicine.

Difficulty breathing is indeed a sign of anxiety. Pressure on the chest and nasal issues too. Take a chill pill and avoid the media.

I had one of the mild cases of coronavirus and recovered.
If you have corona, expect 1-3 days of dry cough and light fever, an illness that doesn't feel much worse than the common cold, followed by 3-6 days of exhaustion, malaise and soul-splitting headaches, an illness which feels like the worst flu of your life. After this, it is either the case that it goes into your lungs, and you need to go to the hospital, or it resolves from one day to the other, and you'll feel good again.

This disease is extremely contagious, and a large number of cases never get tested or get hospitalized because they resolve without issue.

You'd know if you were ill enough to sustain permanent lung damage, and further, lung damage has only been observed in people who had to be put on ventilators in intensive care units, and even among these people, only some of them have lung damage.

You're fine.

I have the exact same problem but I'm a weed smoker so its impossible to determine whether it's just from the cough I had last week or if it's Corona. I wasnt feverish at any point but this dry cough has persisted like a bastard

I actually had a relevant series of events happen to me a few years ago. I had a guy work on my HVAC system but he used a chemical that basically no one but a brainlet would use to clean an HVAC system. I did a bunch of googling about what inhaling this chemical could do to your lungs and it was an obscure chemical so I could only find a few articles of people inhaling it. Around that time I suddenly got a bunch of weird breathing problems, stuff that is hard to explain without sounding like an obvious hypochondriac. One night I woke up feeling like I couldnt breathe, and basically freaked out and moved in with a relative, convinced I was damaging my lungs by breathing this stuff.

Had chest xray. Did spirometry test. Everything looked fine. But still, for the next few months I was convinced I had lung damage and my doctor gave me an inhaler that I never used, probably just to make me feel better. In hindsight I think that I woke up with sleep apnea and that is what woke me up and my symptoms were probably just general allergy symptoms. But it felt very real, real enough that I was prescribed what people with asthma and emphysema are prescribed.

What made me feel better about my health anxiety was actually talking to people with COPD/asthma and when I learned that their experiences were totally different than my own, I kind of started to realize that I was overanalyzing my breathing to a point where I thought I was having problems

I will say this, if you stop and really, REALLY analyze your breathing, your lung capacity, and if you start from the assumption that it is possible you have reduced lung capacity, then you can really psych yourself out. I did have the options of taking a pulmonary function test. Which can tell you if you have anything wrong with your lungs or breathing. But the problem was that I researched that too, and apparently those devices can transfer lung diseases in some cases. Obviously sick people tend to use them so I was scared to take it

Also people are spraying sanitizer and disinfectants everywhere you go. That definitely affects air quality.

This. Hard to fucking know if I have corona when I'm smoking bowls every hour