I'm back ... gosh, I was just here the other day, when my heart was "fluttering" .... but here we go again, and this time, it seems a little diff. ....

Two nights ago, when I went to bed, my heart began POUNDING hard, and started skipping beats. Now, I have had that at diff. times for the last 17 yrs. of my life really ... it started at age 35, and has stayed with me, on and off. But since peri started FULL SWING it's been a bit more frequent, and now i have a tendency to become very nervous. The way this first began, was 17 yrs. ago, one day, as I was waking up one morning, still laying in bed, when SUDDENLY it felt as though my heart STOPPED ... I sat up in bed immediately and became really frightened! As i sat there, it was beating "differently", pounding hard, and that third beat thing. Naturally, since I hadn't had that before, i panicked. I ran to the ER, they did an EKG for about 5 hours....and decided it was stress and anxiety, they said they didn't see anything, and yet, i can remember laying there all those hours, and FEELING all the skips and extra beats and whatever, but they said it didn't register....UGH!
So, home I went. Since then, it's been doing weird things for years, and many times, it just seems as if it stops for a few beats.....hard to describe. But at those moments, you really think "this is it"!

Okay, so back to two nights ago...............as soon as I laid down, flat on my back, BINGO ... my heart started to POUND really hard, skipping beats, and that third beat thingy. I hadn't had it now in quite a while (well, except for the other day, when i posted here too) .... but before that, not for a while. It made me nervous, because it felt "weird"..... it was pounding so hard, that I felt as though my whole upper chest area was "buzzing" inside ..... "surging" with electricity ....I didn't hear any heart pounding in my ears though .... this was while i was laying flat. I started to feel a little werid in the head, so i turned to lay on my left side, bec. in the past, that has helped the feeling. Well, this time, it didn't stop it, and to boot, I felt this sort of "sharp" pain in my left shoulder blade, twice. It certainly wasn't a strong pain, but you definately felt it..... it happened twice, a few minutes apart. By then, I was becoming very nervous, and was getting really lightheaded, and with every heart beat skip, it felt as though no oxygen got to the brain, bec. I'd get this "wave" of stepping out of time and space .... for a moment.....almost a sensation of going to faint. This kept going on .... I eventually got up, and walked around for a while, got on the internet, talked to my husband,....whatever...anything to take my mind off it....he knows how this is, he's been there with me before when this happened. But, like I said, this time, we had the added left shoulder blade pain thingy. I finally was able to fall asleep, it finally got to a point, where it calmed down enough for me to sleep. When I woke up the next day however, it seemed to start again, not as bad, but it was "trying". I notice that when i first open my eyes, it's NOT doing it .... but once I'm fully awake, it starts. So, i wonder if it's not anxiety!
I got up immediately, and the POUNDING continued for a while, but eventually it relaxed. No left wing pains ever again.
So, last night, before I went to bed, i had a few cookies .... okay well, don't you know it.....i laid down in bed, and here we go again! I'M BEGINNING TO WONDER IF THIS MAY BE SOMETHING TO DO WITH POOR DIGESTION! It may set it off .... I know gas alone can do that! This time, it wasn't as bad as the night before, and i was eventually able to fall asleep, but when I got up TODAY, it started again, once i was FULLY AWAKE. ..... and again, after being up for about a half an hour or so,,,,,things sort of settled down .... the only thing today was, that after I got up, I really felt lightheaded big time, slightly off balance, and DETACHED! I felt that detached feeling all day really.

Right now, I'm in the leutal phase....it's about two weeks before my period, maybe a little less, and i am thinking maybe that has something to do with it too .... who knows........i've come to see that everything effects everything!
(like dominoes) so, I'm not exactly sure if this is "palps", anxiety....or maybe digestion! I know this...i have been under a great deal of stress lately, and that could be it! The anxiety level has been through the roof.


DOES ANYONE ELSE HAVE ANYTHING LIKE THIS,? I know a lot of you guys do, and I've been reading on the heart palps forum.........I guess i just wondered if it was "normal" to get this right after laying down....on my back? Oh, also.....yeah, i've noticed that there are days, when for no reason......if i move onto my left or right side while in bed.....the pounding starts.......WHAT IS THAT? And, what would cause the little sharp pains on the left shoulder blade?


thanks everyone, i know this was a long post, but i wanted to really describe this accurately ....

My Darling,

Once I was starting menopause, I noticed lots of weird, disturbing heart things like missed beats and faster beats. My electrocardiogram was normal, blood pressure normal and sonogram of my heart was normal but I was still experiencing the heart flutters & extra or sometimes skipped beats. Since I looked good on paper, nothing was prescribed to help me with this. When I would lay down at night, the skipped beats would come. I think they probably were happening during the day also, but at night they were more noticeable because I was still. I have added hrt, which has helped immensely-not because of these symptoms but because I had almost every other symptom of meno possible. This seems to have calmed things down with my heart also.

If you aren't taking magnesium already, you may want to consider adding to see if it helps. Also, fish oil is excellent for the heart and I take it daily.

Yes the strong heart palps were my first and strong sympton. I would make my husband look at my chest because you could see my heart pumping right up through my chest. It was so scary. It seemed to get worse when I would lay down or sit down to rest It was as if if I wasnt moving around my heart would pound and pound. So many of the symptoms has sent so many of us meno sisters to the emergency room thinking that we are dying. It has been that hardest time in my life to be a healthy women and now looking for meds just to get through the next symptoms. It is a rocky road and It is different for everyone of us.
Hang in there.
Sishaircut

Yep, me too... Especially around ovulation, and just before my period, (which I got last night and had the CRAMPS from hell), laying there, and just like you said, could literally feel every pounding of my heart, look down and you can see my heart pounding. Then it subsided, and felt fine. No other symptoms except, huge cramps, I think that I had alot to do w/it last night... But yes, I can't stand that. It's like you finally lay down, then you can feel your heart beating in your chest, that is like the worst symtpom, right along w/the anxiety...

Mydarling,

I am over two years post-meno and I have been having some of the same problems you describe. A few years ago I was noticing that when I was in bed, trying to sleep, I could feel my heart pounding in my ears. Months later, that quit; next, it was the really fast, pounding heartbeat. I wore a Holter monitor for 3 days for that, and it was "normal". Ok, then you think all is alright, but next I started having what you describe as "with every heart beat skip, it felt as though no oxygen got to the brain, bec. I'd get this "wave" of stepping out of time and space .... for a moment.....almost a sensation of going to faint." These seem to happen when I am sitting very still or lying down, or getting ready to fall asleep. They are frightening. Are ou going to have anything checked out? I have been under a great deal of stress lately (dealing with a terminally ill parent and siblings who cannot cope). In the past year, besides the Holter monitor, I also had one of those scans that determines your risk of a heart attack and passed that with flying colors. I am not a smoker or drinker, exercise regularly and try to eat right.

Take good care and let me know if you get any answers. It's perplexing and I don't like it. If this is hormones doing this, I wish someone could give a good explanation and I wish these things would just go away!
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I'm back ... gosh, I was just here the other day, when my heart was "fluttering" .... but here we go again, and this time, it seems a little diff. ....

Two nights ago, when I went to bed, my heart began POUNDING hard, and started skipping beats. Now, I have had that at diff. times for the last 17 yrs. of my life really ... it started at age 35, and has stayed with me, on and off. But since peri started FULL SWING it's been a bit more frequent, and now i have a tendency to become very nervous. The way this first began, was 17 yrs. ago, one day, as I was waking up one morning, still laying in bed, when SUDDENLY it felt as though my heart STOPPED ... I sat up in bed immediately and became really frightened! As i sat there, it was beating "differently", pounding hard, and that third beat thing. Naturally, since I hadn't had that before, i panicked. I ran to the ER, they did an EKG for about 5 hours....and decided it was stress and anxiety, they said they didn't see anything, and yet, i can remember laying there all those hours, and FEELING all the skips and extra beats and whatever, but they said it didn't register....UGH!
So, home I went. Since then, it's been doing weird things for years, and many times, it just seems as if it stops for a few beats.....hard to describe. But at those moments, you really think "this is it"!

Okay, so back to two nights ago...............as soon as I laid down, flat on my back, BINGO ... my heart started to POUND really hard, skipping beats, and that third beat thingy. I hadn't had it now in quite a while (well, except for the other day, when i posted here too) .... but before that, not for a while. It made me nervous, because it felt "weird"..... it was pounding so hard, that I felt as though my whole upper chest area was "buzzing" inside ..... "surging" with electricity ....I didn't hear any heart pounding in my ears though .... this was while i was laying flat. I started to feel a little werid in the head, so i turned to lay on my left side, bec. in the past, that has helped the feeling. Well, this time, it didn't stop it, and to boot, I felt this sort of "sharp" pain in my left shoulder blade, twice. It certainly wasn't a strong pain, but you definately felt it..... it happened twice, a few minutes apart. By then, I was becoming very nervous, and was getting really lightheaded, and with every heart beat skip, it felt as though no oxygen got to the brain, bec. I'd get this "wave" of stepping out of time and space .... for a moment.....almost a sensation of going to faint. This kept going on .... I eventually got up, and walked around for a while, got on the internet, talked to my husband,....whatever...anything to take my mind off it....he knows how this is, he's been there with me before when this happened. But, like I said, this time, we had the added left shoulder blade pain thingy. I finally was able to fall asleep, it finally got to a point, where it calmed down enough for me to sleep. When I woke up the next day however, it seemed to start again, not as bad, but it was "trying". I notice that when i first open my eyes, it's NOT doing it .... but once I'm fully awake, it starts. So, i wonder if it's not anxiety!
I got up immediately, and the POUNDING continued for a while, but eventually it relaxed. No left wing pains ever again.
So, last night, before I went to bed, i had a few cookies .... okay well, don't you know it.....i laid down in bed, and here we go again! I'M BEGINNING TO WONDER IF THIS MAY BE SOMETHING TO DO WITH POOR DIGESTION! It may set it off .... I know gas alone can do that! This time, it wasn't as bad as the night before, and i was eventually able to fall asleep, but when I got up TODAY, it started again, once i was FULLY AWAKE. ..... and again, after being up for about a half an hour or so,,,,,things sort of settled down .... the only thing today was, that after I got up, I really felt lightheaded big time, slightly off balance, and DETACHED! I felt that detached feeling all day really.

Right now, I'm in the leutal phase....it's about two weeks before my period, maybe a little less, and i am thinking maybe that has something to do with it too .... who knows........i've come to see that everything effects everything!
(like dominoes) so, I'm not exactly sure if this is "palps", anxiety....or maybe digestion! I know this...i have been under a great deal of stress lately, and that could be it! The anxiety level has been through the roof.


DOES ANYONE ELSE HAVE ANYTHING LIKE THIS,? I know a lot of you guys do, and I've been reading on the heart palps forum.........I guess i just wondered if it was "normal" to get this right after laying down....on my back? Oh, also.....yeah, i've noticed that there are days, when for no reason......if i move onto my left or right side while in bed.....the pounding starts.......WHAT IS THAT? And, what would cause the little sharp pains on the left shoulder blade?


thanks everyone, i know this was a long post, but i wanted to really describe this accurately ....
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Deary,

I have also had recurring heart "trouble" more intensely for the last few months. It started when I was about 35 and now I am 48. I also can't sleep because I can hear my heart pound so hard in my ears too hard... It's just horrible. Many times, I put another pillow so that I will be less "straight" on the bed, which helps me breathe better, at least; I do this especially when all this heart trouble is coupled with sharp pains in different places. Tonight, the sharp pain was in my wrist; I freaked out and got up. This is when I discovered this forum; it is so re-assuring. Sometimes, I also feel pain in my chest. I have done ALL KINDS OF HEART TESTES, from the simplest to the most demanding. Nothing! I am sure, it is ONLY ANXIETY, and yes, sometimes starts with bad digestion or any "exciting" foods, like sugar, salt, lemon, garlic... etc.

What I really wanted to tell you is that my grandmother on my mother's side use to sleep (if she did... she was up all night!) almost sitting, because she couldn't lie down fully straight, it would make her too anxious. She had many pillows and used to go to the washroom to pee all night--also, anxiety. The funny thing is that my grandfather on my father's side also had the same problem; he never slept straight and suffered hard anxiety attacks. I don't remember him go to the washroom as much as my grandma, though. I used to sleep often at my grandparents when I was a kid. Thank God I knew them so well, so I can always have them in my mind when I suffer at night.

I hope this helps.
Take care.
Love,
Anouche

the only advise i can add is never eat 2 hrs before bed, that will bring on the palps and also laying on your back makes them worse and when you get them if you cough it helps regulate your heart beat...good luck