WITHDRAWAL SYMPTOMS: HYPERVENTILATION (OVER-BREATHING)

Clients find it very hard to believe that so many symptoms can be due simply to not breathing properly. Rapid, shallow breathing is very common in withdrawal. It may be due to spasm (tension) in respiratory muscles, or it may be that the central mechanism in the brain is temporarily disturbed. This does not mean that you will stop breathing, but it does mean you will have to practise abdominal breathing.

When someone is anxious, over-breathing is usually present (again part of the ‘fright and flight’ response), but in withdrawal it seems different. Users in hospital for acute withdrawal have been observed to over-breathe even whilst asleep.

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