For a good yawn I need to really open my mouth and push/strain my jaw muscles. If that doesnt happen, then the yawn feels incomplete to my body and it happens again and again till it works “right”

What is the reason/body function behind that?

  • Apytele@sh.itjust.works
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    6 hours ago

    It’s called air hunger and is a mild form of shortness of breath and I get it constantly. (Edit to add: I know EXACTLY what you mean by the jaw thing and that arbitrary bodily sensation of “u did it wrong tho do it again :( but right this time…” and then it keeps going and going and going until you finally manage to breathe in right somehow.)

    • get a medical checkup just to make sure nothing is actually wrong with your lungs, but especially have your iron levels checked
    • CUT BACK ON YOUR CAFFEINE AND OTHER STIMULANT USAGE (nicotine is another common stimulant)
    • it can also be due to anxiety (which is why you wanna cut the stims) so reduce your lifestyle stressors where possible, seek psychiatric treatment otherwise

    Not a doctor but I am an RN (but still not your RN).

    • Wrufieotnak@feddit.orgOP
      1·
      6 hours ago

      hm check iron level is something I read with other symptoms I show as well…maybe it is time to do just that.

    • Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafeEnglish
      2·
      8 hours ago

      It can be air hunger, or may be nothing more than a yawn for no apparent reason.

      We really don’t understand yawning all that well.

      If it happens frequently for someone, like throughout every day, then maybe it’s exposing a problem.

      • Apytele@sh.itjust.works
        3·
        7 hours ago

        I mean it could be something else, but that thing they’re describing where they have to work their jaw and do it again and again until some arbitrary sense in their body decides they finally did it right… It’s just too familiar. Like they’re describing EXACTLY the same sensation. That is EXACTLY how I would describe the feeling. And that’s what fixed it for me.