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>I also notice that I sometimes don't take a breath (or feel any need to) for several seconds, if I'm being sedentary. Normal adult breathing rate is 12-20 per
by meindnoch 1y ago
>I also notice that I sometimes don't take a breath (or feel any need to) for several seconds, if I'm being sedentary.
Normal adult breathing rate is 12-20 per minute. So by the pigeonhole principle, if you don't pause breathing for several seconds when idle, then you're breathing too fast than what's considered normal. Your wife is hyperventilating, which could be a sign of stress, or a compensatory reaction to metabolic acidosis.
- dpassens 1y agoOr you could take long breaths. 20 breaths per minute is only four seconds per breath which doesn't seem terribly long if it's both in- and out-breath.