Peri anxiety/panic attacks

[Peripain]

Hi. Anyway to stop the anxiety that occasionally tips into a racing heart? Xanax and an ice pack?
What doesn’t help is I did have a medication induced heart condition - now healed, but left scarring.

I developed anxiety for the first time in my life with peri menopause and HRT sorted it out

@HermioneWeasley struggling to get it but not in the UK. Ridiculous at 50. please can I ask if you had natural HRT?

Not sure what you mean by natural HRT? I have the patches

Nature identical if that is possible.

@Peripain do you mean body identical?
That's what most people use these days.

That in general is patch or gel form of oestrogen and then body identical progesterone in the form of a nightly tablet for 12 days a month.

It's fairly rare for people to use the older styles of synthetic HRT.

Thanks @Moveyourbleedingarse that is what I meant. I want to make sure I request the most appropriate/low risk version. Had a horrible reaction to a different medication (nothing to do with HRT) that resulted in hospitalization and permanent injury.

Ditto. Absolutely THE most debilitating effect of peri / menopause for me.