If You Can't Breathe While Mewing 

When ever I’m mewing when I’m breathing it sounds like I’m snoring is this good

I was in a similar situation where I quite literally could not mew without not being able to breathe, and all I can say is if you're a teen especially; focus on getting either "reps" or mewing or lower your tongue to the most you can fit while being able to breathe. For me it was uncomfortable and sounded like "darth vader" if I had to describe it, but after around 10/11 months of inconsistent "mewing" and essentially just being aware of my tongue posture and trying to correct it when possible I'm at the point I can mew without it sounding/looking abnormal. Best advice I can give is to just set timers/reminders regularly or if you're at school try to focus on keeping posture in any downtime. If after a year of genuinely trying you might want to consider getting either an expander, MSE, or any other option if you can. Until then you might as well try to figure out mewing and just focus on hardmewing in reps to gain that space. Sorry if this made no sense, feel free to ask if you have any questions, and thanks Ronald for the video.

He actually explained this in one of his video's, you can't breathe because pushing your tongue back like that is the same thing you do when you want to swallow. You push back that tissue so that it blocks your airway and you can swallow your food. Now, what you want to do to prevent this is find this fine line where you still can breathe and the root of your tongue is still against this tissue. How you can practice doing this is using one hand to block the nose and try breathing trough your mouth while testing different pressures with your tongue on the back of your mouth. Find that sweet spot where you can breathe... If you want to know if you're mewing correctly, most often you will feel a pressure arise on your cheekbones after a few minutes... Also do different things aside mewing! Correct body/ head posture, face assymetry excercises (before mewing is best), chewing excercises to enlarge your jaw muscles (not too long, could cause pain because of overworking the muscle, 1 hour daily is enough) and doing something sportive to inprove body posture by engaging your body.

You are literally the only guy that explains it thoroughly enough to where I can now do it properly. I always thought that you just hold your tongue on the roof of your mouth but I didn’t realize that you had to put the back of your tongue up on the roof of your mouth as well... thank you for explaining it :)

Lol I couldn’t breathe at first but for some reason the problem just went away as I carried on doing it only took me a few days for the issue to go away

I spent a year trying to mew without enough oral volume, I made no progress

I tried mewing, can't breathe , but now I'm involuntarily gulping air and burping ... It's uncomfortable ! Help me!

Thank you so so much, this helped clarify a lot and one of the best videos explaining the problem correctly.

Thank you for giving a no-bs explanation. I just watched a video where the guy basically said, "you're blocking your airway, just don't block your airway"

I feel that it is difficult to know how much tongue I NEED on the roof of my mouth. I have heard about the power and importance of the root of the tongue. It’s difficult for me to tell if I’m just going too much and choking myself, or if I don’t have enough room

I can't breathe while mewing and when I breath my back part of tough comes down, please tell me what can I do

I hate when I’m mewing and I have to talk lol.

How can you determine if you have an insufficient pallete?

A lot of people have been able to make space in order to breathe by doing mewing "reps" but ofc a few can't even by that method

I hear you talking about expansion, but never about the upswing. You don't believe it's possible? You're doing a great work! Thank you!

It's only impossible to Mew sustainably in the short-term. Your palate will expand and your airway will expand over time. Eventually it will be sustainable.

fellow nerds, for me i realized i couldnt breathe because i had a forward neck tilt. make sure you head is straight and neck is back in alignment.

Deviated sceptums too. Not all of us can breathe through our noses. Which is why we breathe through our mouths.

It gets better! Do what you can and like with exercise, one day, barring any serious Orthodontic malfunction/malformation, you'll realize you're doing it without thinking about it! I just cam here to make sure I hadn't given myself any bad habits doing that - turns out, that's the way! So stay strong my friend, we'll all have that Angelina jaw ONE day... lol

When I swallow like you said and have that vacuum I feel like Im sucking my teeth and maxilla in, instead of feeling the tongue pushing and expanding the maxilla

This issue WILL go away after a couple of days of mewing, depends on how poor you facial structure is when you start, it will be hard to mew and breathe at the same time, you will suffer in the beginning but then you’ll adapt and you will be able to do both

it took me 6 months to breathe while mewing, but now its working

the cause why people suffer because nobody give clear instructions in all youtube videos

Man, no offense but I can't quite understand why you keep on working on expanding your palate: you have gaps between your incisors, doesn't that mean you went overboard?

i feel like everytime im doing it it gets better. just keep mewing guys it will get better as ur posture gets better and better

We're your pre molars extracted as part of old orthodontist treatment

Thank you for the video. How did you get the width of your lower arch to match the widened width of your upper arch while you were doing MSE?

Hey bro what's your opinion on maxilla rotation and its effect on the chin? Good video

This is so depressing. I don't even have money for that procedure.

Honestly this video gave different instructions from other people and this works best thanks

How do you even get an expander? Do you just walk in the dentist and ask for one? How much did it cost you and would insurance cover it?

Anyone else's chest hurt after breathing while mewing?

Thank you so much Ron. You explain things incredibly well....such a great communicator. I was about to move forward with AGGA although I felt unsure. I saw your video on that with the new information and warnings. I’m completely grateful to you for sharing this information. Thank you!!!

I’m so fucking confused. I mew and it makes my jawline way better but my nostrils just can’t breathe

My face/neck posture and jaw aren't even far from good but I still can't breathe

Its because the bad neck posture

Yeah don't waste your time holding your breath with your tongue

I find it hard to breath sometimes but my real problem is that I can't hold that posture .

It feels like my heads gonna burst and I get this weird taste in my tongue after doing it for like a minute

good tips, just want to say correct posture helps make space to breath for me, and opening up the airways with qigong/pranayama practise. acupressure under and beside the nose

I believe that an overbite could also be a cause. I have an overbite and I also have this problem.

I'm 16, is it fair to say that with growth, as I get older, my oral volume will increase and give me a better chance at mewing?

Well, damn. I can't afford that. I guess I'm out on the mewing.

i dont kinda get this 'suction' thing are you suppose to suck your tongue or use muscles when controlling the back? thanks

Bro's video is too early for us

Hey Ronald, wish you the best. Hope you read this...for the duration you have the expander installed and while your sutures have been disrupted, try hard mewing/regular mewing now...I'm guessing that now is a great time to do this so you can upswing the maxilla since your sutures are now disrupted, sort of like when you were still a child exhibiting growth. Hopefully the changes will be noticeably positive for these next few years.

i can breathe but i feel like i became self-aware of it and swallowing is weird too, i guess you become used to it

Why the fuck is this so hard

I think that people with allergies or respiratory illnesses will not be able to do it.

Hi Im your new sub. I just want to ask how old were you when you started mewing? Im 39 now, im not sure if this will still work for me. Thanks

I have crossbite, overcrowding (+ wisdom teeth coming now, ouch), and my tongue sits between my lower and upper teeth cuz I feel my upper teeth are too far back. mewing is basically impossible right now. Help.

I can breathe out of my nose when I mew but I cannot breathe out my mouth. Is this correct???

What’s the best way to achieve facial upswing as a teen?Is MSE possible at this age or is it unsafe?

It's when lying down trying to sleep where I get it impossible to mew, it's like I'm taking in too much air and not sure when to exhale, creates a pressure so I have to stop, it's ok when up and about during the day

Could the reason why you're salivating so much be because of mewing?

I have a severe overbite. It’s so bad that I can’t even naturally seal my lips without straining them. Not only that but I can’t breath at all when I mew. Is there any hope for me

my problem is that I cannot breathe trough my nose neither while mewing or nose breathing no wonder I have not had a happy life man.

there are some stages when i mew.. I have enough space for my tongue to fit (according to width) but I don't know if it is less according to length, by length I mean from the back of my mouth to front.. now, when I get my tongue up to the extreeeme back, I can't even breathe, when its partially back my breathe makes sound and when it is like not very extreme back, I can breathe while making very very less sound... now please suggest me how should I mew? 🤨

I've tried mewing for years and I still can't do it without suffocating. I even got my teeth removed for more space but it didn't help.

How do I know I don't have enough space I can breath but I still have these tooth prints on my tongue

What the hell I can't breathe at all if I stick my tongue all away back through my throat, but I can stick on the whole roof, I'm 17, that means I can't mew?

i don’t really know how to explain it but i couldn’t breath the first time but then it just kind of happened but like popping the middle but down so it’s kind of a curve i can breath and swallow when i do that and i’m still mewing properly as well

So if you gain such a good lateral expansion, is there a need for any forward expansion after that ?

you should see an ent to fix possible nasal blockages or opt for palatal expansion your welcome

I have this problem that i cant stop burping whenever I try mewing and I don't know what to do, help

Anyone have salive drewling while mewing ?

How to swallow? And are you supposed to be able to breathe with your mouth open?

So correct swallowing works how? Should I put spit to the front over and swallow but not completly swallow it (only so the spit in the back of my mouth) to then make a final swallow getting all of the spit finally into the stomach?

Do i cant get a sharp jawline now beacuse im too dumb to do mewing Dude i hate my life

i dont realy know how to mew properly but what im doing is sticking by tongue up to the roof of my mouth maybe half of my tongue on the most of the hard pallate but what im hearing from video is that the whole tongue should be on the roof but when i cannot breathe is when i put my other half on the soft pallate

I can breathe through my nose, but usually one nostril is blocked. Am trying some things for that now.

I had a MSE for like a year and a half, but then I had to wear braces and retainers and I feel like my palate is still too small to be able to mew properly

hen I new my face turns red then I pass out cause I cant breath but u can't stop the grind

ton of saliva build up at the front mouth when i mew and i don't know how to swallow it.. any tips?

I can't position the tongue against the palate with the back, because of tongue tie. And I can't get a tongue tie release because I have too little forward growth (oral volume). :(

So if I mew and I can breathe in my nose is that okay? Or do I actually have to be able to breathe in the mouth while mewing

You gained forward expansion with AGGA and lateral expansion with MSE. Is there a way to gain both simultaneously?

When I’m mewing and I breathe it sounds wierd

This video makes me giggle

My tongue is way too bigger for my mouth....

Ive got an IMW of 40-42mm as measured by Dr. Zaghi and Kathy Winslow. I can very easily drive up the back of the tongue and hold it pretty much all day and breathe fine. Do you think I will be able to see expansion?

Imagine giving up breathing cause it will ruin your mewing streak😂

Tongue chewing is more superior to mewing.

Thankyou very much this helped a lot :)

I just don’t know how back to put the back of my tongue I’ve been putting it as far back as possible is that right?

This is the problem with mewing. Dude , teaching kids some nice habits is already something known. The real problem is most of the people are not even aware that they have bad habits that ruining them over time. Mewing is not something genius.

Nahh, it still doesnt work for me

Yeah my mewing sucks. It was helping for a second. Your situation sounds like my exactly like mine, but my doctor thinks that a splint helps.... it is not. We spent money on something that isnt working. And like, my right cheek muscles are clench, and my left cheek muscles feel over stretched, of that makes sense?? Both sides of my face are clearly uneven and it's so hard doing facial exercises when my muscles aren't being used right. Idk what do to when so specialist near me will help me!

i cant find a tounge posture where i can still breathe do i just breathe out of my nose instead?

I started bleeding last month

I can breath but i need to do big breaths im a mouth breather maybe its cause its hard for me to breath through the nose i can but i need to do big ones not normal ones

In others video say that if you say a word that end with ING like sing maintain that tongue position on the roof of your mouth but in your vid you need to push up the back part of you tongue dammmn im confuse which one to follow

For me I cannot breathe because my nose is always blocked. That’s why i became a mouth breather to begin with. Is it because of allergies? Sinus issues? Or something else? I’m still trying to figure this out.

My face is long and thin and exactly like you said, I'm unable to mew properly despite me doing so for around 1 year+. I wasn't sure up until watching your video that I didnt have enough oral volume so that's definitely something to look into. My lower mandible is also severely recessed so I will need a plan of action for that whether it be surgery or otherwise. I just want to be able to breathe through my nose and also get those aesthetics. I also have sleep apnoea too which i suspect is from an underdeveloped maxilla and recessed lower mandible.

Whats AGA and MSC ?? someone explain please

Is it normal for my jaw to hurt

What is this Aga?

im 13 and cant breathe at all mewing for 3 months btw

Hey Ronald Can mewing fix protruding eyes with oral volume do you mean wide palate and face And last question I have a side of my face with vertically small eyes and it looks great and the other side has smaller cheekbones and a bigger eye should I bout more pressure on the smaller side Sorry I asked lot of questions and thx for your explanation in your vids they are great

THANK YOU!