Thread: Trouble breathing while asleep

I've been living in a new house with my boyfriend for a week or two, and ever since, I've been feeling like there isn't enough oxygen getting into my lungs while sleeping.

After I've been sleeping for a while, I feel somewhat like I'm suffocating. My chest hurts and I feel a desperate need to breathe. I feel thirsty, but when I try to take a drink of water I feel like I'm suffocating because I'm not breathing while drinking it.

We've had a dehumidifier on, which his dad has said we have to keep on full blast until a hot water heater leak is fixed. We're sleeping in the basement, in the room next to the dehumidifier. I don't know if it would happen in the basement while I wasn't sleeping, since I only go down there for prolonged periods to sleep. After leaving it for only a few minutes, I already feel my lungs getting back to normal. I've taken up smoking in the last 2-3 months, but I doubt that has anything to do with it since this started happening suddenly only a couple weeks ago.

I've never experienced anything like this before, have no history of asthma and it only seems to be getting worse. My boyfriend isn't experiencing the symptoms at all. Could the dehumidifier be the culprit, or is there something else it could be? Google isn't being my friend in this case.