dyspnea

Pentobarbital can produce, in some cases, pulmonary edema as a side effect.

And we don't know for sure because when it's successful, these prisoners can't come back and tell us that just before they died, they felt like they couldn't get enough air and it's called air hunger.

Yeah, that is disturbing too.

As an asthmatic, I certainly know that feeling pretty well.

And meanwhile, they're just dysregulating their nervous system more and more.

There's also something called air hunger, which breath holding, which I'm a big fan of.

Actually, I feel like a lot of my clients are over breathers.

I just really make sure that how we're introducing air hunger drills is like one rep. Let's do the reassessment to see how your body, like, what is your body telling us? But yeah, Some people can tolerate it like wonderfully.

They feel better.

They have less anxiety while others experience just this like super fast shift.

But typically, the best source of iron is in red meat.

Now, this symptom also relates to the next one, which is air hunger, like you have difficulty breathing.

A little different, but similar.

This too is a situation where you're trying to get more oxygen.

They are having a hard time breathing.

It's called air hunger.

I'll explain that in a little bit.

When your body is shutting down and the processes start slowing down, there's a phenomenon that happens where you think that you need air and you're actually breathing okay.

we are actively dying here.

And I would never say to someone's family member, like, well, they're dying anyway, because that's not the point.

The point is that we are treating a symptom of air hunger with a small amount of morphine.

We are not jam-packing them with pain medicine.

And I would try to bend it, and it just felt yucky.

And then I developed air hunger.

Now I'd had lifelong asthma and it was bizarre.

It was this feeling that many of you may relate to, especially if you've gotten diagnosed with Babesia, where it sort of felt like I had like a belt around my rib cage and I couldn't get a full breath, but it wasn't like the inhalers were helping.

This was like hungry for air.

And there really is no other explanation.

So like air hunger as a medical term is perfect because that's what it was.

And fast forward, you know, many, many years, I didn't even know I had Babesia.

... is, has gone.

You know, they, they cannot tolerate the buildup of CO2, and you get this over-breathing because they are feeling air hunger, they're feeling suffocated, and it is, I think one of the most bizarre things that I felt in long COVID, it was that feeling of complete breathlessness by doing a simple activity like standing up from a chair, trying to walk up the stairs-

Yeah

... that would put me into a hyperventilated state, and I was an athlete before, so you know, it was like anything over three seconds I was gasping for breath.

You know, it's like we have people that are dealing with this and they, you would look at it, it's like, yes, they have a fairly normal life, but they're not.

They're dealing with a lot of rest and recovery and checking in and making sure that they are taking care of their body because if we don't, you know, it's like w- we will pay for it, literally, we will pay for it in spades a couple of days later.

So I think, you know, the, the normalcy, it's like, you know, if you understood that that feeling, we always talk about it, air hunger, the feeling of suffocation is real.

Um, and that is one of the things so hard to explain to people or, you know, and it's terrifying if you have it.

But pain is only one type of alert signal.

Dyspnea is the alert signal for inadequate ventilation or air hunger.

Thirst is the alert signal for disrupted water balance.

Hunger is the alert signal for inadequate nutrient intake.

Next comes protection of tissue integrity, followed by toxin avoidance and waste clearance, then water balance, nutrient intake, and finally sleep.

Each of these needs is linked to its own primal alert signal.

Dyspnea signals inadequate ventilation and air hunger.

Pain signals tissue injury.