Perimenopause heart anxiety

[usetobesunny]

Hello,

This is my first post I have scrolled through others at times when I needed answers to my perimenopause nightmare but I have deiced to post hoping someone else may resognate with my post and either comment or just relate to what I'm going through.
I am 47 and started getting quite severe heart palpitations around 6 years ago. I was diagnosed with short Pr level and SVT. I lived with it and it really didn't affect my life to much.

Jump forward to a couple of years ago and they started increasing in rate and would happen more regularly. I ended up in hospital with my heart rate being 180bpm and blood pressure reaching 190/110 i felt so horrible. They suggested an ablation which I regretably did. I was so sick after it the surgeon said he bump my vagus nerve I had never heard of that but now can see how much it regulates.

Anyways I am trying to keep this short...Late last year my blood pressure would randomly spike with high heart rate and I ended up back in hospital this time with a different heart specialist. He feels it is all very Perimenopause related.
I have been put on a beta blocker which definitely helps the heart rate stay at around 120 if it goes out of sync. I tend to get really horrible episodes around ovulation and around period so this does make sense.
After an episode sometimes they can last around 1.5 hours I feel so inflamed in my chest and cant relax for the rest of the day.
It has completely destroyed my life I am too scared to go far from home incase it happens.

I have started HRT but had to come of the promentrium as it was causing even more severe panic attacks. So trying to figure out how and where to go next.

I am feeling so stuck and also lost as I am a ghost of the fun, outgoing person I use to be.

If you read this and relate I would love to hear your thoughts and also ways that may help you cope with it.

Massive thanks in advance xxx

What HRT are you on ? If you have your womb, you need progesterone. The mirena coil is low dose and continuous, so women often prefer it.

I am on estrogel and promentrium but after speaking with my hormonal dr today she is stopping both and wanting me to go on the pill. I cant keep on the estrogel without taking the promentrium

Sorry to hear your going through this. Peri really is a bitch, you just don’t realise it at the time.
I’m in my late 50s now but up to 52 was very fit and healthy (or so I thought !). Gym a couple of times a week, running and spinning, out with the dog and a very active job. Hit peri and suddenly diagnosed with high BP (probably familial as no real risk factors apart from stress). Then started getting horrendous palpitations which sent my anxiety into overdrive and made the palpitations even worse. Like you I would say I was a shadow of my former self for a good few years, mainly related to health anxiety.
It turned out I had a very very low ferritin (5) which my GP failed to pick up, only to discover it a year later when I visited A/E with chest tightness/palpitations and had blood tests done. Has this been checked ? I had very heavy periods which led to this btw.
Now I’m out of peri the palpitations have stopped pretty much🤞but I’m on beta blockers for Long Covid as well which may have contributed to the improvement. My cardiologist wants to take me off them and did say that the palpitations may come back again so it’s obviously a thing and was advising me to start HRT because of it ! . I did find that magnesium helped them especially when I was recovering from LC, just a good brand from Amazon so that could be something to try. What I noticed was that docs sometimes really do not listen to us and it’s bloody infuriating. You really have to assert yourself.