• PANIC ATTACKS? CLAUSTROPHOBIA? Carbon dioxide, CO2, may be triggering your panic attacks..

Carbon dioxide, CO2, may be triggering your panic attacks. Panic disorder sufferers often avoid elevators, jets, buses, cars, meetings, classes, shopping places, and crowded rooms, all indoor or vehicle environments. Why? People exhale CO2 (140 gallons a day). The CO2 in such places is high enough to trigger panic attacks. The CO2 in such places is not just 2-3% higher than fresh air; but is 100-700% higher! The Bcalm CO2 eliminator device helps persons who are triggered by CO2 to have panic in closed-in, crowded places. Such persons instead of having to abandon their shopping cart to flee outside due to panic, can remain in line by discretely inhaling 6 times or more though their Bcalm device which brings down the CO2 to fresh air levels, removing this common trigger of panic attacks. Using Bcalm is like going outside but without having to leave the building/vehicle. Of course, there are other causes of panic attacks, like hormones, that will not respond to this device; but, for persons who are primarily triggered to have attacks by being in a claustrophobic situation, Bcalm may be “Just what the doctor ordered”. Will it work for you? Sadly, you won’t know unless you try. Dr. Cox suggests that Bcalm may not be for you if your attacks occur in fresh air. You can determine if you are hypersensitive to CO2 by a DIY diagnostic test (Do this at your own risk). To produce some CO2, drop one Alka-Setzer Gold into a very tall cup containing about ½ inch of water. After the fizzing stops, lower 2 long straws down to an inch above the water (NOT in the water) and slowly inhale the air/CO2 mix 1 to 2 times. If nothing happens you are normal. If you choke and p, stop; you are hypersensitive to CO2 and the probability that Bcalm will help is 50-90%, but, again, not guaranteed.