Bleurgh days.
Mar. 17th, 2003 11:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
baratronHaving a very bleurgh couple of days. Had a few days of being not too ill, then a couple of days of being really quite ill. Back to waking up hurting all over and unable to walk reliably :/
My concern with this hyperventilation occulta diagnosis is that now all my symptoms are being written off as that. I'm willing to accept that I do breathe too quickly and it may be making me ill, but I'm not sure whether it's the problem or merely a problem, if that makes any sense. Just have to wait and see, I suppose - and get enough brain power together to read the book on it I bought.
I think I exaggerated slightly when I said I breathed once per second - usually if I'm doing something active, I take about 30 breaths per minute - I meant that I breathe in one second and out the next. If I'm doing something more restful, my rate is slower, but it's still nothing like 12-14 breaths per minute. While lots of people have suggested singing lessons, I don't think that would help at all because I've been singing my whole life - was in choirs all the way through school - and if anything, that reinforced my bad breathing habits - I learnt to grab a quick breath inbetween each phrase rather than taking a long deep breath at the end of each passage. Plus, I can't see my dad paying for me to have singing lessons, whereas I could probably get him to pay for asthma management / chest physiotherapy classes.
I think the best thing for me to do is to continue to treat this as ME or chronic fatigue syndrome and rest lots, even if I don't think I need it. Because whenever I don't rest lots, I suffer terribly the next day and the day after. It could be, for instance, that my problem is CFS caused by a combination of hyperventilation occulta and something else. It's just so annoying not to be able to predict how I'm going to feel from one day to the next :/ I haven't booked tickets for any of the bands I want to see because I'm not sure if I'll be capable of getting there. And I keep letting my mum down by not being well enough to help her, which is contributing to the general parental distress.
My concern with this hyperventilation occulta diagnosis is that now all my symptoms are being written off as that. I'm willing to accept that I do breathe too quickly and it may be making me ill, but I'm not sure whether it's the problem or merely a problem, if that makes any sense. Just have to wait and see, I suppose - and get enough brain power together to read the book on it I bought.
I think I exaggerated slightly when I said I breathed once per second - usually if I'm doing something active, I take about 30 breaths per minute - I meant that I breathe in one second and out the next. If I'm doing something more restful, my rate is slower, but it's still nothing like 12-14 breaths per minute. While lots of people have suggested singing lessons, I don't think that would help at all because I've been singing my whole life - was in choirs all the way through school - and if anything, that reinforced my bad breathing habits - I learnt to grab a quick breath inbetween each phrase rather than taking a long deep breath at the end of each passage. Plus, I can't see my dad paying for me to have singing lessons, whereas I could probably get him to pay for asthma management / chest physiotherapy classes.
I think the best thing for me to do is to continue to treat this as ME or chronic fatigue syndrome and rest lots, even if I don't think I need it. Because whenever I don't rest lots, I suffer terribly the next day and the day after. It could be, for instance, that my problem is CFS caused by a combination of hyperventilation occulta and something else. It's just so annoying not to be able to predict how I'm going to feel from one day to the next :/ I haven't booked tickets for any of the bands I want to see because I'm not sure if I'll be capable of getting there. And I keep letting my mum down by not being well enough to help her, which is contributing to the general parental distress.
