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WELLBEING| HEALTH PRACTICES
I Tried Breathwork to Stop My Palpitations
Taking a breathwork course was the best decision I made all year
Ever since my palpitations started, my perception of myself as a healthy person has been on shaky ground. With palpitations as regular visitors to my heart’s chambers over the last six years, I joked that if I were to collapse or die suddenly, my family needed to remember to mention them to the paramedics.
The first General Practitioner I went to, (we call our family practitioners ‘GPs’ in the UK and many other parts of the world), told me everybody gets them. He said, I get them all the time. I bet you hold your breath and then they go away! I doubted that everybody got them, but it was true that they went away without causing much trouble.
But over time they became more frequent.
Other GPs agreed they might be anxiety-related or down to perimenopause. One GP suggested more time sitting in the park enjoying the green spaces and relaxing might help.
When I went to see a gynaecologist about something else, I raised the palpitations when he took my medical history. He shook his head disapprovingly when I suggested a perimenopausal connection. Everything can’t be explained by perimenopause, okay?
