Do you have shortness of breath? 
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Do you take sudden gasps of air?
These are classic signs of sub-conscious hyperventilation.
I haven’t posted about this in a long while, but I still do Buteyko Breathing, not as much as I used to. But back in the spring of 2011, I got rid of a LOT of secondary symptoms by reducing hyperventilation via Buteyko
The following is a link to the Nijmegen Questionaire for hyperventilation. Check it out! See how many symptoms you have. Report your score
http://www.bradcliff.com/?page_id=62
Here is a study showing that the questionnaire is very accurate for accessing chronic hyperventilation.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/4009520
In a nut shell …. Chronic stress leads to chronic hyperventilation. The source of stress doesn’t matter. Your CO2 set-point becomes too low. Buteyko works to retrain your set-point.
Here is a You Tube video on how to measure your “ control pause” (CP). The lower your CPs, the more you are hyperventilating
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWUxOGTDd3s
I started at ~ 11 seconds in March 2011, which is pretty bad. This is when I had very bad shortness of breath. I did get it up to 36 seconds at one point.
Any source of stress will reduce you CP, since stress make you hyperventilate. People report that EMF exposure from computers will reduce their CP.
For Ray Peat fans, here he is talking about the importance of CO2.http://raypeat.com/articles/articles/co2.shtml
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This is a reply to # 2,100,492Based on your old posts, I actually ordered a Buteyko DVD and CD on Friday!
I couldnt afford the courses, they are extortionate in price (500 quid for two hours a day for five weeks, literal insanity), ill let you know how I get on after a few weeks- Re: Do you have shortness of breath? feo66
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This is a reply to # 2,100,595The lady I used charged $300 USD and provided 1 year of email support.
Was nice to have someone to ask "Is this normal".
Did you check your morning CP? It more accurate to check in the morning.
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This is a reply to # 2,100,603I did, 10 seconds! Obviously quite a lot of work to getting on with :)
Cant afford a teacher, so hopefully the dvd will be a good tutorial- Re: Do you have shortness of breath? feo66
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You can go it alone. I started by myself and got my CP from 11 up to about 21.
When your CP gets near 20, your cells are not starving for oxygen and can function better. So you can go through some detox symptoms.I got a little freaked out by them. I was having 4 large bowel movements per day ... nice and dark. Massive headaches. I know I experienced others, just can't remember what they were. Just remember living on the toilet with major headaches.That's when I decided to use a coach .. just to see if what I was experiencing is common.Buteyko got rid of a lot of symptoms: Blurred vision, light flashes, waking up with numb and tingling hands. I went from being unable to lift my head off the pillow in the morning to waking up completely refreshed.
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MoreThis is a reply to # 2,100,641I can cope with the loo breaks, it would actually be rather fantastic as Ive been bunged up since I was 21 :) if all it did was help keep me asleep at night, I would be a happy camper.
Hopefully the disk will arrive tomorrow so I can start, how much did you practice when you first started Feo?- Re: Do you have shortness of breath? feo66
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This is a reply to # 2,100,693Twice per day. Once in the morning and once in the evening.
Sort of combined it with meditation.
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This is a reply to # 2,100,492I have shorthenss of breath every time I pees or drink salt water.
Also when efforts and stress...could these be consider as CO2 problem? I was thinking of electrolytes.
Any thoughts/- Re: Do you have shortness of breath? feo66
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Stress increases hyperventilation .... which will lead to shortness of breath.
Do you find yourself taking sudden gasps of air? This is sort of like apnea while you are awake.Check your Control Pause (CP) as per the link above. If it is low, it means your cells are starving for oxygen.It is not intuitive at all, but hyperventilation actually results in less oxygen being delivered to your cells.One reason is that low CO2 results in constricted blood vessels ... hence the light headedness when hyperventilating.The 2nd reason is due to the Bohr effect.
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This is a reply to # 2,100,668I noticed when I get shortness of breath that a couple of drops of licorice root extract in water seems to help.
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This is a reply to # 2,100,841I think I would rather try a few attempts of natural enhancing breathing techniques than dropping substances :)
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This is a reply to # 2,100,843Yeah, I agree. I mean, if you can do something simple with your body or mind to train your system to behave better, that's more addressing the cause than propping yourself up with substances.
That said, I won't begrudge anyone who's working on healing for using a substance to ease suffering meanwhile. Indeed, sometimes easing the strain makes the healing go faster.
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This is a reply to # 2,100,841Licorice reduces inflammation. Alveoli inflammation can lead to shortness of breath. That might explain why licorice helps.
But I don't believe Licorice will help many of the other symptoms that stem from hyperventilation syndrome, which is secondary to chronic stress.If your cells are starving for oxygen from hyperventilation, many symptom can result. Measure you contol pause as per this video...just to see.
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This is a reply to # 2,100,950These are the wonderful benefits of licorice.
Now mind you if you are high cortisol you do not want to use licorice.
http://www.herbwisdom.com/herb-licorice-root.html
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This is a reply to # 2,100,492Great info Feo...you've prompted me to look into buteyko more. I've found breathing exercises in general really hard to do.
When a wee sprite over 15 yrs ago, a blood test revealed low blood oxygen...the nurse said to me - "perhaps you want to go to the doctor about that" and i ignored it as i didn't understand at the time what it really meant, and she didn't make it sound as if it was something important.
Questionaire 43, CP of 8. I guess i've a way to go! (i really don't like holding my breath)
When i do abdominal breathing exercises for suggested relaxation i've tested my BPM and BP while doing them. Abdominal breathing causes BPM to really increase...and BP to decrease, which is already low anyway, so i never feel good doing controlled breathing, it increases the dizziness, light-headedness of already low BP.
So i feel like i go round in circles trying to relax with breath-work but end up feeling worse for it.
These days i've opted more for just breathing as naturally as i need to...focus on the breath, not control it...and i find that relaxing.
Did you notice any changes while starting buteyko with your own BP and BPM? Is it a case of feeling worse before feeling the benefits of it?
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This is a reply to # 2,100,966No. When my CP started to increase, I only felt better and better.
When my CP increased to just over 20, I did have some detox symptoms.
I didn't really notice anything in terms of BP, but I wasn't really checking it either.
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