Seffie
23-05-11, 21:27
Hi
I am much better these days after years of bad health anxiety & panic attacks etc. The only thing I seem to get now is what I believe to be chronic hyperventilation syndrome. I don't get it all the time but sometimes it really bothers me so after reading about it I decided to try to get a referral to a respiratory physiotherapist.
So I saw a doctor I've never seen before & he asks me a few questions, tells me resp. physio doesn't usually help with this & that it usually has a trigger. He did a few checks which were all fine then he asks me if anyone has ever checked me for asthma & I said no. He gets me to blow in to this tube - can't remember the technical term & he said that the result was 'just OK'. I did it 3 times but tbh I'm not sure I was doing it properly. So I've got to do this at home for 2 weeks & go back.
I tick all the boxes for chronic hyperv. syndrome, I'm 48, I have no allergies, wheezing, coughing etc ( other than my 81 yr old dad who was diagnosed with asthma afew yrs ago but never seems to use his inhalor) no-one in my family has asthma, the overbreathing stops if I distract myself. I don't have general anxiety anymore, I just get anxious about the overbreathing especially in social situations but it's just anxiety about the symptoms not being out etc. So now, as well as being anxious about the overbreathing I'm anxious that it's asthma which is only going to make it worse.
Feeling really fed up, thought I was going to get some help with this at last but now feeling really upset & worried. Sorry, just need to rant to people who understand. :huh:
I am much better these days after years of bad health anxiety & panic attacks etc. The only thing I seem to get now is what I believe to be chronic hyperventilation syndrome. I don't get it all the time but sometimes it really bothers me so after reading about it I decided to try to get a referral to a respiratory physiotherapist.
So I saw a doctor I've never seen before & he asks me a few questions, tells me resp. physio doesn't usually help with this & that it usually has a trigger. He did a few checks which were all fine then he asks me if anyone has ever checked me for asthma & I said no. He gets me to blow in to this tube - can't remember the technical term & he said that the result was 'just OK'. I did it 3 times but tbh I'm not sure I was doing it properly. So I've got to do this at home for 2 weeks & go back.
I tick all the boxes for chronic hyperv. syndrome, I'm 48, I have no allergies, wheezing, coughing etc ( other than my 81 yr old dad who was diagnosed with asthma afew yrs ago but never seems to use his inhalor) no-one in my family has asthma, the overbreathing stops if I distract myself. I don't have general anxiety anymore, I just get anxious about the overbreathing especially in social situations but it's just anxiety about the symptoms not being out etc. So now, as well as being anxious about the overbreathing I'm anxious that it's asthma which is only going to make it worse.
Feeling really fed up, thought I was going to get some help with this at last but now feeling really upset & worried. Sorry, just need to rant to people who understand. :huh: