Anxiety /hyperventilation syndrome
Twenty-one year old language student Thomas Martin Manchester September 2010
The Buteyko technique has changed my life. Since doing the exercises my symptons of asthma, IBS and anxiety and depression are virtually gone, my acne has cleared up and i am consistently getting a full nights sleep. I never would have thought that all these symptons were linked to my breathing. I would strongly recommend the Buteyko technique.
Anxiety /hyperventilation syndrome
Liverpool January 2012
Before I started buteyko breathing with janet i had been off work for a year with anxiety. The doctor tried me on two medications which only made things worse. I was at a dead end and thought i would never get any better. Then i worked for myself that i had chronic hyperventilation syndrome, anxiety being one of many symptoms of this condition which i was experiencing. Then i found janet's site and booked on a course. Within two weeks i was off my medication, relaxed, breathing better than ever and ready to go back to work. At the time of writing ive been back in work a month, calmer than ever an wondering why doctors dont know more about this technique.
Hyperventilation syndrome /chronic fatigue syndrome
Qualified nurse Rosemary, High Peak March 2010
I am a 49 year old female, a qualified general nurse no longer practicing as I am now a professional artist/designer. In December 2008 I suffered a severe viral infection from which I never fully recovered. By January 2009 I was unable to work or lead what had been a normal life. My symptoms were numerous; dizziness and feeling 'spaced out' to the point of feeling near to collapse (this was continuous and confined me to bed for long periods), pins and needles in my feet and sometimes around the mouth, nausea, muscle twitching and spasm (an ambulance was called at one point because it appeared I was having a fit of some sort), sweating, inability to tolerate glucose (I lost 2 stone in weight), pain and soreness of hips and long bones, and a strange buzzing and trembling feeling in my brain. These were the main symptoms and the most troubling. There were many more minor symptoms; fatigue, irritable bowel, tinnitus etc. During the next year I saw numerous consultants, had various tests including ones for suspected adrenal and pancreatic tumours,diabetes, M.S., coeliac disease, paid many hundreds of pounds for a private consultation where I was told I had an underactive thyroid and adrenal exhaustion and candida of the gut. In the end I was given the diagnosis of chronic fatigue syndrome(C.F.S.)/M.E. and referred for cognitive behavioural therapy and graded exercise therapy. By this time I was feeling desperately emotional as well as very ill but felt unable to accept this so called diagnosis, I looked for another explanation. My G.P. had casually mentioned the word 'hyperventilation' as an explanation for the 'fit' I had suffered a few months earlier. As a nurse my only experience of hyperventilation was the acute sort which is very easy to spot and this had not been what was happening when the ambulance was called. But after very little research I discovered that there is also chronic hyperventilation carrying with it every symptom I was suffering. Researching chronic hyperventilation it is impossible not to discover the Buteyko method and its cure for the condition. I immediately spoke to Dr. Janet Winter my local qualified Buteyko practitioner and she was more or less confident that hyperventilation was the problem. First instructions before even meeting her was to ' keep my mouth shut'. The effect of this simple action unbelievably proved to have almost instantaneous improvement and relief of my disabling symptoms. My one to one course with Janet was arranged quickly the benefits continuing to be astonishingly obvious very early on. The whole scenario was explained by her as to what was happening in the body and how the breathing exercises reverse the situation. Diet plays a role too and this was also fully explained.
I first saw Janet in November 2009 and in December I was able to return to work part time. Since February 2010 I am back working full time. I have no doubt that the Buteyko method was directly responsible for my cure from the so called C.F.S as the effects were so dramatic. The method does take commitment and practice (and I'm still practicing!) but this is a very small price to pay for having your health, and life restored.
Asthma
Care assistant Philippa Knight, High Peak 2009
I have had mild breathing problems all my life, I am borderline Asthmatic. Since leanring Buteyko the difference it has made to my life is amazing. I have been having very bad panic attacks at night for years. I have since learned that I must have been Hyperventilating at night and having a very bad nightmare. Since learning how to keep my mouth shut at night, the difference is amazing. No more nightmares, also I am not as thirsty. I must have been sleeping with my mouth open and it made me very thirsty. Also I had a very bad persistant cough which I could not get rid of. I was given a Reliever Inhalor to use when I needed it. Since learning the Breathing Exercises, my cough has gone and I no longer need to use an Inhalor. I could cerntantly reconmend Janet to anyone, with Asthma and with many other problems.
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