just poted this on anxiety web but just wated you other ladies to help if you can.....is what im getting surges or is anxiety like this. I have these surges of something moving up my body from middle to chest area and they come in succession and im all het up them and cant calm myself down or they are just a one off but when they come all together i get so exhausted by them and find it hard to talk and am sure people can tell im having them.The adrenaline makes me cry which is so hard in social settings .Howdo i decrease the adrenaline in my body i cant seem to stop them coming and just lately they are almost every day i prob have about 6 good days a month and i cant see a plan. i think i have it sorted then bam im bad on a day i think i should be good.Took propanolol today which didnt even touch it....The surges exhaust me which them makes me tired out to handle work kids etc which upsets me as i think im crazy.My emotions are so exaggerated and how to i stop the cycle of surges causing exhaustion exhaustion causing anxiety....Do i just need to put up with them and will they end.Im only 41 but the last 6 months these surges are so strong and out of nowhere.I hD A WEEKS HOLIDAY LAST WEEK TO SEE IF THEY STOPPED but they still came on so it wasnt what im doing that is stressing me.I went grocery shopping today and after feeling anxiety so strongly i wanted to and almost did burst into tears at counter i had to try so hard not o make a fool of myself......what do i do.I know this is somethig more than anxiety as nothing i can pinpoint externally is ausing me to be so tense stressed out nervous jittery emotonal i could go on but i wont....i dont know whether to ask for a hysterectomy as i know they wont give me hrt as my gran had breast cancer and my mum was told she couldt have hrt.My gran and mum started peri at 37 and gran had two breakdowns due to hormones but docs wont do anything to help me just label me nxious..... sorry to ramble but when and if i do have a crisis i have handled them well and calmly at times with no anxiety.just cant pinpont it i get them even when im happy etc

Laxgirl,
I know what your feeling. I wake up with horrible anxiety which I cannot pin point. I will go to bed happy and sure enough there they are in the morning. I have the surges also that I cannot explain. It's scary. I can't stand going to the grocery store in fear I will break down. I couldn't cry for a yr and now cry all the time. I'm 46 and went through meno at 39 with no symptoms. I'm not sure if my heightened anxiety is hormonal or not. I was on a hormonal patch last yr for 3 months and it did nothing so I quit. I feel your pain.....

Hi there - I also get/got adrenaline surges, they almost felt like an electrical feeling racing up my body, sometimes lasted a long time, sometimes one short one, sometimes up to 8 in a row, and then the sweats and heat up my spinal cord, back of neck and my head heated up to ohhhhhh about 3,0000 degrees .... and of COURSE always when someone is talking to me, like my boss!! But after 9 months, these are slowly decreasing, and fingers crossed when I am one year without period, they will stop as well. OK, fingers AND toes crossed!! And my anxiety levels are dropping as well, so hang in there, you aren't losing it, it is just your body "talking to you" ... on another site I likened it to my car's engine tring to start up, over and over some times, but there is no gas, but it still overheats ... like your body is trying to pull estrogen out of the ovaries, but there isn't any, and it goes wild trying to find it and your internal thermal core heats up. BUT please read some of the medical site-links on here - they are amazing and will help you immensely, you are not alone!!! xo

Thanks for the help they are horrid.i fee like i am causing this but im not in any cotrol of it.

You are NOT causing it, mother nature is ... read some of the medical information on here and it explains it better than I can. It is unfortunate we go through this, but please don't blame yourself. I know they are horrid, make you feel yukky and strange - but they GO AWAY. Try to keep as positive an attitude as you can right now and just know you are not alone, not at all. Some women take hormone therapy - read all you can on this site and you can take control. But right now your body is reacting to the estrogen "leaving the building". HANG ON!! We are all here to listen and care. xo

Thanks Susy D and everyone else for all your help and replies.I feel like a completeley different person from how i was and want to be again.....Cheeres