Hi, I!

Count your blessings!

Many years ago my doc diagnosed the same thing as "anxiety disorder", medicated me out of my right mind and into a state of constant dizziness and extreme weight gain!

Ecclesiastes 3:11 talks about humans not being able to "find out the work that the true God has made from the start to the finish." Jeremiah 10:23 tells us it is not given to humans even "to guide our own steps."

So if we do not understand ourselves "from the start to the finish" and need help to guide our steps, HOW, exactly, are we going to micromanage our health?

We may NEVER completely understand how our lungs work. But we know enough about this to consider continued breathing a good choice! If one waited for complete understanding, holding one's breath, exactly how long would one expect to live?

Regarding the ideas here at Ask Moreless, none of us will EVER COMPLETELY understand them. But many of us DO understand ENOUGH to consider certain things wiser to do than to leave undone. We have benefited greatly, and attempted to share that benefit with others who desire health improvement.

So, what is stopping YOU from taking the first step to benefit yourself by applying SOMETHING from this forum?

Is it too difficult?

Do you have any reason to believe there is serious risk from anything suggested here?

Is there ANYTHING to loose, other than health problems?

Wouldn't you RATHER be getting better and better in your health and helping others do the same? That would SURELY be more rewarding for you and better for those who take the time to read your posts!

Questions and an overly questioning spirit can be a bad thing. Ecclesiastes 12:12 says there is no end to the making of books, and much attention to them is weariness to the soul! In your case, to the asking of questions there is no end, and paying attention to them is preventing your healing!

Quit seeking information and start APPLYING some of what you have learned!

Otherwise, you may educate yourself to death????

Di

I would theorize that maybe the hyperventilating was triggered in order to increase the blood pH.

A few links related to blood pH and its regulation.

IMO a Very good thread
Post http://curezone.com/forums/fm.asp?i=388256#i

Thread http://curezone.com/forums/am.asp?i=388247&s=1#i1

The blood can vary by as much as 0.15 pH units (7.25 to 7.40) and still be within the "normal" pH range. I would however, become very worried if my blood pH were to drop below 7.29. The most active regulator of pH in the body is the kidneys and they work to avoid excess alkalinity by excreting anions as necessary. They also work to limit acidity of the blood but when they reach their limit, the blood steals anions such as Calcium from the body, including from bones, teeth, and cellular sources. This causes the anionically depleated cells to become acidic. When the intra-cellular acidity reaches a certain level, gene regulators such as histones become denatured allowing certain genes to be expressed when they normally would not be. These genes cause a cascade of other changes and cancer develops there.

http://curezone.com/forums/am.asp?i=930175



Physiological background: major metabolic pathways of acid and base equivalents
http://www.alkalizeforhealth.net/Acid-Base%20Balance%20Articles/remer.pdf

A schematic representation of how the different organs interact in managing acid-base balance is given in Fig. 2. The initial organ with an important impact on acid-base metabolism after the ingestion of food is the intestine. The intestine itself does not specifically generate acid or base equivalents, but depending on diet composition it modulates the blood bicarbonate level by increasing or decreasing the amount of alkali (from pancreatic secretion) that is continuously reabsorbed (for more details see below, Fig. 3). In addition, the gut determines the absorbed amounts of sulfur-containing amino acids (AAS) and alkali salts of metabolizable OA, which then are available in the liver or other metabolically active tissues as substrates for the generation of either acids or alkalis. After oxidation of AA-S and OA the released protons or alkali ions add to the total acid-base pool in blood and are finally excreted by the kidney (Fig. 2). On the other hand, the lung regulates the carbonic acid-bicarbonate buffer system and herewith the blood pH is maintained within a narrow range (respiratory compensation).


RENAL REGULATION OF BICARBONATE
http://www.acbrown.com/renal/OutBicarb.htm