I was in hyperventilation once (had major anxiety over extreme pain that turned out to be an ectopic pregnancy)......and my hands and feet got numb and tingly! Turns out, all I had to do was "calmly" inhale through my nose and exhale through my mouth into a paper bag and the sensation would have come back to my hands and feet. The tingling and numbness was caused by an abnormal loss of carbon dioxide from my blood due to the excessive rate and depth of my breathing (anxiety). Breathing into the paper bag would have allowed me to recapture that excessive loss of carbon dioxide. Hyperventilation affects the extremities first.

It could very well be carpal tunnel syndrome (the tingling, that is).....but if/when this tingling/numbness occurs again and you find you are having an anxiety attack (breathing faster than normal)....try the breathing technique, with the paper bag, as I explained above for a short while. If the tingling disappears......voila.....you have your answer!

And.....try and recognize/isolate exactly when this happens to you. If you can determine that you are indeed breathing excessively and feeling anxious at the same time, and that the paper bag trick works...you'll not only calm all your other notions of "what could be wrong"....but you'll take control over something that you've felt no control over before.....which, in turn, could calm all of your anxiety in time!

Good luck hun!

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