I am currently very, very wound up with a lots of panic and a lot of anxiety. As a result of this I find that over the last couple of days, my breathing is very high up in my chest, almost in my throat, I feel stressed out and have had a bath, drank chamomile tea, tried to sleep, taken some Bach rescue remedy (bottle dropper) herbal remedy for stress, and NOTHING is working. Also tried to deep breath through abdominal breathing techniques - still nothing.
Have been suffering on and off with panic attacks and anxiety over the last 9 years or so, it is pretty bad at the moment, as there is a lot going on in my life (but a lot of very good and positive things) which still makes me so anxious and almost so hyper that I just cannot sit down for more than a couple of minutes, have to keep busy.
I have also had a few eposodes of rapid heartbeat at night in bed, sometimes waking me, very fast heartbeat and so frightening. I went to the hospital last week and had an ecg, blood tests and chest exray, and am currently waiting on a 24 hour holter monitor to which I have to wear next week for a day to see if they can trace anything. The cardiologist thinks it may be tachycardia, which may also be alcohol induced as I had a few beers on both the nights in question and a few cigerettes, even though I gave them up two years ago, I still have the odd one at the weekends if I drink alcohol, but will not know till the results. My ecg was normal at 59 bpm, and my blood test showed that my cholesterol was slightly raised, so I am working on that.
So the question is really would "Accupuncture" be any good for me at the moment, would it benefit me at all, and lessen any of the syptoms I am experiencing????????????
Please help with any comments .......... I am going out of my mind.
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