Just Want to Share My Story - Breath Inflation Not So Safe

Just want to share my story as a warning to all inflators, especially those who use their own lungs/breaths to inflate their abdomens. For breath inflators, you might get pulmonary hypertension (a life-limiting illness) from doing it. Don't make the same foolish mistake as me.

As a background, I've always done breath inflations since I discovered it as a child.

How it works is you breath some air into the abdomen and you push out your abdominal walls. You push it out a little bit further every time you inhale. And when you exhale, you try to maintain that abdominal wall position, and make sure it does not shrink back. In the end your lungs seem to work as a pump to inflate your abdomen. And your abdomen is full of air. No pumps at all.

They say that breath inflation is probably the safest way to inflate yourself. After all, your lungs can only generate so much pressure in the abdomen. I've done this for years without anything going wrong. This is way much safer than using a pump, I thought, at least until my last one.

Apparently, by doing this, you are limiting the air you breathe in and out. By holding the big abdomen in place, your lungs are able to inhale and exhale less than before. The result is that you may become hypoxic/hypercapnic (a state where you lack oxygen). You'll know you've reached this stage when your heart starts racing (I thought I was simply being anxious because someone might suddenly come in and see what weird thing I was doing)

At this point, you should quickly stop. Going further will make your pulmonary arteries constrict more, and your heart beat faster, and permanent irreversible damage can be done. You may develop pulmonary arterial hypertension (like I did)

This is the most foolish mistake I made in life. I wish I could turn back time to tell myself to stop. But now, I am currently suffering a chronic progressive life-limiting illness. I really regret this because I think I had a wonderful life in front of me, taken away because of my one little seemingly innocent fetish.

I want all readers to note that there are many people in this community who have testified that inflation is safe because they've done it countless times. I would have thought that too. But I think the community who have suffered/died from this fetish is one that is underrepresented. We don't hear stories from them for obvious reasons. So I just want to warn everyone to be extra careful. No matter how many times you've done this successfully, one slip is all it takes to ruin a precious life.

You may think. Nah...my belly isn't going to burst at this point (but it might and your body won't always give you the right signals) or worse, some other body part of yours is affected, and you might not even realize. Depending on your bodily signals won't always work.

I think the safest move is to stop inflating now. You may not agree, but I hope you don't learn this the hard way (like me). Always remember that if your fetish is a healthy one, you won't be hiding it from other people. So stop it with your instant gratification! Do other things...go play sports or something socially accepted. You'll get much more pleasure from it.

A kind request from a fellow inflator: Do not inflate please. There's a reason nobody else does it. No matter how safe it feels, fetishes are inexplicable as they are against human survival. Whenever you feel the urges, tell yourself 'STOP! Someone who thought she totally had it under her control actually caused her own death'. People who've died all thought they had it under control. They are not foolish people who did not know their limits, they are people who just wanted some pleasure like you and me.

Thanks for reading. 

Currently, I am trying to stay positive. And perhaps I'll need some counselling because of I am forever scarred by the fact that I caused myself to develop a terminal illness. Whenever I think of the beautiful future I could never have, I try to keep myself sane ny convincing myself that...It's not my fault, the human body is weak and stupid anyway. I didn't take drugs or anything. Besides I just happen to live in a generation where the cure for PAH hasn't been invented yet. And I'm happy to even have lived in the first place. Long life is not a given :)