I am pretty frustrated right now. I have been tormented by these palps for several yrs. at the beginning thay only seemed to center around my period, now I'm 38 and I seem to get them any time any where, however they are worse around my periods. I have just begun to search this sight...there is so much info. here I wonder if I will ever read it all. I'm certainly not complaining, it is a wonderful place to be and so informative and above all the tremendous support system from all of you. At a time when I think I will lose complete control and find myself crying to sleep I can come here and know we all are dealing with the same feelings and fears.

To get to the point I literally have become somewhat agoraphobic due to theseheart irregularities, I'm afraid to do things I once did. I have been working on a few things to possibly cut them back...magnesium, little sugar, proper eating, exercise and so forth. I thought this was working I have felt pretty good for a couple of mo. palps minimal even around my period, little anxiety, breasts aren't sore. just not having awhole lot og the usual pms symptoms, not hot flashes, night sweats. Then after this last cycle I have been really weepy, sore breast, anxious ect...here we are again. I thout I had found something that helped. My heart has been doing it's little dance again only my legs feel so week after. It will carry on for a few sec. ( I know this isn't long, but when we fear them 1 sec is too much)I seem to get this rush of adrenaline through my legs, they turn to rubber. I get psvt once in awhile and I think that is what it is again and once again I'm scared. I feel so helpless to my body and it's antics anymore. I want so much to be "normal" again and smile and anjoy my family and life...I need encouragement. It still stumps at how I can feel wonderful one week and aweful the next. Thanks for listening mikki

Ahhhh Mikki- you ARE normal. If I were you, I'd go have a doctor check it out (by the way I have been there and done that! ) and eliminate anything else it could be.

I still get the palps, the little "dance" as you call it, and NO I don't like it, BUT ya know what?? I am doing everything I know to do. Like you I take the magnesium, follow a low sugar diet, blah, blah, blah.... I gave up freaking out about it.

All I can do is my best. I refuse to give in to my fear about this. Rationally, I know it's menopause. I know it because of this site, and from other respected resources.

When my heart does its little dance, I breathe through it. I think "it's all hormonal and will pass any second"- and it does.

BUT... incase I'm wrong... I've told my kids to put "I TOLD YOU IT WAS MY HEART" on my headstone! LMAO

Read, Read, Read...the more you know the better you will feel!

Hi Mikki,
I was in my late 30's when mine started too. I went to a cardio and did a treadmill and other assorted stuff. He said everything was fine, to exercise as much as possible. I'm 50 now and happy to report that for the most part, they've subsided quite a bit. I rarely get them now, but have traded them for wonderful major anxiety. I've decided if it's not one thing, it's another. If they continue, have them checked out just to be sure, but I'm sure you're fine. Try to stop worrying about it, that seemed to make it worse for me. I know that's easy for me to say. I've had my husband tell me to chill out when I'm in the anxiety zone, and it's hard to hear. If only it were as easy as that. Also, sugar and caffeine seemed to make them worse for me. Hang in there. You'll be fine.
alyce

LMAO ... as I sit here palp-ing. Been going on for the past couple of hours. GRRR! Hate it! Had it several hours a day for the past few days.

Hang in there Mikki.

Thanks all of you,

I have been checked...first when I pregnant wiht our second child, palps got really out of hand during my second tri. I had a stresstest, holter, and echo, that was about 8 yrs ago. They disappeared after she was born for a few yrs. and showed up again a couple of yrs. ago which brought me back in for another round of the same tests. My blood work all comes back perfect...tri's are perfect, cholesterol perfect all the technical chargon on my heart like infraction output perfect. I exercise about 1 hr. + a day....I told my husband I should be the epitomy( spell check ) of good health...

My mom said her symptoms subsided too afterwards...she was done having cycles at 44. It seems so far away , that is if I even follow her. I get frustrated when I think I have to wait soooooo long to feel better. I can only do what I can do now, I know. Some days I feel great, I have learned that when I have a bad day it is ok for me to take care of me, however when there is a run of bad days it gets difficult. I heard somwhere and I try to keep it in mind....just because I have a bad morning doesn't mean I will have a bad afternoon, or a bad day doesn't mean tomorrow will be the same. I think I just want to find the precise answer to fix it all and there isn't one. I sound like a baby whaaaaa whaaaa I know I need to keep things in perspective and not look yrs ahead of myself and look for what I do have as my sweet husband tells me.
Thanks mikki

Hi Mikki.
I have really bad palps all the time,,infact this episode has lasted nearly 3 weeks now,and they drive me nuts,i cant seem to get threw a blasted day without having them,just when i think umm no papls,their they are,as im typing this my heart is doing the rounds,i was told only a couple of weeks ago that im menapausal,i havnt had a heart test,that freaks me out to,what if they find something wrong with my heart,because i dont mean to sound and be pesamistic(spell check)but the way theese palps go all day nearly everyday for weeks,im thinking surley that cant be down to hormones,and if they are,WHY?why does it affect the heart..
im really scared 2 about this,
I know im going to have to get them checked out.
U take care mikki and keep in touch.
By the way im 46 and from uk.
Lyn xx