Menopause Matters Forum
Menopause Discussion => Personal Experiences => Topic started by: toffeecushion on May 26, 2015, 07:52:00 AM
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Feel like I am having an adrenaline rush. My pulse is in the 80s and I feel like I'm buzzing. Been going on all morning. Anyone else had this?
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Hi TC - Yes, for many years since meno, experienced the ghastly adrenaline rushes, with and without accompanying flushes - at night too - and I'm on low dose HRT. I try hard to control it with deep breathing exercises, thought diversion, rescue remedy, brisk walking helps the most, magnesium - I throw everything at it. For reasons I've not been able to fathom, sometimes worse than others, very jittery too.
What do you do to try and calm the horrid feeling?
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Walk. Or sit until it goes away.
When if first happened to me I was really scared. Always feels like hot water coursing through my veins :-\
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Do you get a weird wooshiness in your tummy too? Really hard to describe but hopefully you'll get what I am on about. Presume this is adrenaline?
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Yes - I had this back in January, really unpleasant as it was accompanied by high heart rate 110-115. I also had dizziness.
I increased my HRT dose and thankfully on the whole it has settled.
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That's interesting salad, I've Ben in a higher state of anxiety the last couple of weeks, all though I have a lot going on at the moment I was wondering if a higher dose may also help as I experience what everyone is discussing.
Thanks
Shellb
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I have had this happen too. Is distressing and uncomfortable.
I have never been bothered by injections but during recent visits for dental work in hospital, I have blacked out each time I had an injection for local anaesthetic. My body released big flood of adrenaline and I immediately pass out. The dental surgeon confirmed is likely to be my peri-meno causing this reaction. Each time, I came round, it passed and the work was able to go ahead.
I normally am a blood donor but thought it sensible to arrange to be taken off their books for three years.
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I have found that my Dentist is more meno-aware than many GPs seem to be from the reports on here ::)
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I have had this happen too. Is distressing and uncomfortable.
I have never been bothered by injections but during recent visits for dental work in hospital, I have blacked out each time I had an injection for local anaesthetic. My body released big flood of adrenaline and I immediately pass out. The dental surgeon confirmed is likely to be my peri-meno causing this reaction. Each time, I came round, it passed and the work was able to go ahead.
I normally am a blood donor but thought it sensible to arrange to be taken off their books for three years.
How interesting. I had a similar dentist's injection experience, but never made the connection!