Chronic Hyperventilation Syndrome

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Has anyone had this and gotten rid of it?

TIA,

Katy

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> Has anyone had this and gotten rid of it?

Wow, I really want to hear about this since I'm having trouble with it

too.

Lynn S.

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> > Has anyone had this and gotten rid of it?

>

> Wow, I really want to hear about this since I'm having trouble with it

> too.

>

> Lynn S.

Have you noticed any correlation between carb level and CHS?

I used to have trouble with this back in college (about 15 years ago

for me). It went away, more or less, for years and it's been back in

the last two years and recently has gotten really annoying. During

and " attack " I sniff and sometimes pop my ears uncontrolably along

with hyperventilating. I've read some people yawn or sneeze.

I had a reprieve while low-carbing for two months. It came back over

the Thanksgiving/Christmas season when I greatly increased my carbs. I

wasn't sure if this was coincidence or if there's another way to

control this without having to give up carbs. I've tried the

suggested breathing exercises, but they seem to make it worse.

Thinking about not breathing too deeply makes it worse too.

Katy

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> Hyperventalation and panic attacks are often symptoms of food

> reaction problems. So it could very well be that a lower carb diet

avoids

> the offending food (the top offending foods are seeds: wheat, corn,

> soy). People with gluten/casein problems get all kinds of neurological

> effects, though I haven't seen that one specifically mentioned (panic

> attacks are common: I go into a high anxiety state if I get any gluten,

> and my vision goes fuzzy if I get casein). Anyway, if you know one

> kind of diet helps, you might consider an elimination diet or some

> experimentation!

>

> -- Heidi Jean

Well, I had thought about that angle, but I finally decided that it

wasn't food allergies. Maybe I need to relook at that area. Chronic

hyperventilation is different than hyperventilation due to an anxiety

attack. I don't hyperventilate in response to stress, worry, anxiety,

or nervousness. I'll just be vacuuming or relaxing in bed reading a

book and find myself sniffing uncontrollably and breathing really deeply.

I did test for gluten/casein last year and got a nice big score on

both tests. I haven't had gluten for about a year and have cut way

back on casein. I'm pretty sure it wasn't casein because I had gone

GF/CF until I low-carbed, and then ate some cheese, cream, and butter

while low-carbing. I did an elimination diet and found that corn

sometimes causes problems and eliminated that when I ditched gluten

last year. The only food I haven't tested for that I did eat before

and after low-carbing, but not during, is potatoes. I guess it's

possible for someone who's part Irish to be allergic to potatoes, but

would a low-protein starch like a potato cause neurological problems?

I do have some neurological problems due to gluten. The outside top

area of one thigh goes numb. When I'm cold and have goose bumps, I

don't get goose bumps in the area that goes numb. It is considerably

worse during any hormonal peak of my cycle and during pregnancies.

Doctors I'd talked to had no clue. It greatly improved after the GF

diet. Occasionally I'd have it mildly, but the numbness completely

went away during the low-carb thing. During the low-carbing, my

hormones got totally regulated. They had been really erratic before,

even while on a meat, veggie, potato elimination diet.

A lady with celiac joined our local chapter and reported that both she

and her mom always got a bad migraine right before menstruation. When

her mom hit menopause, she quit getting the migraines. When the lady

went on a GF diet, her menstruation migraines went away. Is this type

of thing common – food allergies causing problems with hormones that

cause other problems? I didn't mention it before, but I do have the

chronic hyperventilation much worse during ovulation/menstruation.

Katy

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> I know this is a long shot but I had symptoms similar to this after

being

> given a steroid shot in my muscle for bursitis and once again many years

> later when given a adrenal steroid. I found out that I have a severe

> sensitivity (allergy) to steroids and wouldn't go near them (or most

other

> pharmaceuticals for that mater) again. Could you possibly be having a

> reaction to a medication?

>

> Kim

Hmmm...I've never taken a prescription medication in my life, and it's

been years since I have taken anything OTC except pepto, but I still

eat some non-organic meat (3-4 meals per week) that has who-knows-what

injected into them. I wonder if that could do it.

Katy