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What Causes Dizziness After Having Breathing Exercises?

I have been laying around worrying about this for almost 7 hours. What happened was I was doing a breathing exercise and after the first exhale, I got extremely dizzy. I took a shower to try and make the feeling go away, but I started seeing stars in the shower, and eventually got too dizzy that I had to turn everything off. After getting out, I passed out with my elbows on my knees for a few minutes (idk how long, but I could not function, only breathe.) I laid down for about an hour and I didn t feel anything except for a little dizzyness every so often. 6 hours later, now, I keep getting cold flashes (my head, hands, and feet get really cold), and it hurts the left side of my chest to lay flat on my back. It s not a sharp pain, it just hurts like a bruise, but I don t test the pain since I feel all of today is giving me terrible anxiety. My main question is, is all of this an anxiety attack (lay down and get some rest), or should I call 911 and go to the hospital? This is the breathing exercise: http://www.wikihow.com/Do-a-Breath-Control-Exercise-for-Rapping
Fri, 2 Jan 2015
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HI
Welcome.
You have not mentioned your age & gender,weight.
Most off the diseases occur at particular age.
Dizziness after breathing exercise with cold flashes indicate cardiac diseases,it may be only anxiety.
Better you consult your doctor to rule out cardiac problem.you should not take risk.
He will examine you physically .order for.
1-E C G ,Echocardiogram
2-X-ray chest.
3-Blood tests.
4-Urinalysis.
5-PFT (Pulmonary Function Test)
to rule out any pathology in heart,lungs,
Treatment depend on cause.
Cut alcohol,junk food,colas,coffee,smoking.
Take fresh fruits.
Feed back to H C M .
Thanks for query.

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What Causes Dizziness After Having Breathing Exercises?

HI Welcome. You have not mentioned your age & gender,weight. Most off the diseases occur at particular age. Dizziness after breathing exercise with cold flashes indicate cardiac diseases,it may be only anxiety. Better you consult your doctor to rule out cardiac problem.you should not take risk. He will examine you physically .order for. 1-E C G ,Echocardiogram 2-X-ray chest. 3-Blood tests. 4-Urinalysis. 5-PFT (Pulmonary Function Test) to rule out any pathology in heart,lungs, Treatment depend on cause. Cut alcohol,junk food,colas,coffee,smoking. Take fresh fruits. Feed back to H C M . Thanks for query.