Hi ladies - Happy New Year to everyone!
I posted a few months ago when I'd stopped HRT cold turkey. I'm 49 (50 this year) I was on evorel 100 and 200mg utro for 2 weeks. I was also on 80mg Slow release propranolol (beta blocker). I came off all of the above because I was experiencing unbearable and constant ectopic heart beats. I was having bigeminy frequently and it was ruining my life (should mention that I didn't have this before going on the hrt or beta blockers). I was very very depressed and wasn't hopeful for the future. My GP told me to stop everything when she saw how low I was.
Anyway, coming off of the HRT and beta blockers helped so much with the depression, insomnia and ectopics. I now only have a few ectopics a day and they are spaced apart so don't worry me at all. I've been feeling much better in myself up to now. I'm now 2 months off of them for the past few days I've felt very anxious nervous/jittery. Like my body is in fight or flight. I can't relax and my heart rate is constantly fast (I don't know what because I won't let myself go down the route of becoming obsessed about my heart rate again). I can feel it's fast though. The past few nights I've also been waking up during the night in a panic and my heart is beating really strong and I'm very hot. This is how I felt before I went on the HRT and beta blockers but unfortunately I started them around the same time and stopped them around the same time so it's hard to know which helped with that (also this was the reason I went on the beta blockers because of the anxiety and fast heart rate).
The first month off of HRT i had a period but this month I'm now 13 days late. The last blood test I had was a few weeks ago and my estrogen was 100 and progesterone was 0.23 (day 21). I took myself to Randox today and had another blood test to see what my hormones are doing now but I assume that they are low considering my last results and the fact that I've missed a period.
Anyway, sorry for the long message. I know that others have experienced these symptoms, the racing heart and waking up in a panic. Just wondered what had helped? I'm thinking that perhaps I need to consider a low dose of HRT again (I will try a different method this time, maybe lenzetto). I will never take beta blockers again. Should also mention I've had tons of heart tests and all fine.
Thank you so much for reading. Any advice appreciated.
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Topic: constant Jittery/Fight or flight feeling (Read 770 times)