Menopause Matters Forum
Menopause Discussion => All things menopause => Topic started by: Nas on November 03, 2024, 04:43:13 PM
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Does anyone experience body tremors at night and early morning, accompanied with a racing heart? Are these linked to high cortisol levels. What reduces them?
These are my latest symptoms to accompany my overactive bladder.
Usually a propranolol sorts the racing heart, but not today!
Ive not long had an ECG and all was fine.
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Probably hormonal. Not pleasant though I've never been aware of my heart ........ cortisol caused anxiety surges and adrenaline 4 me feels like hot water coursing through my veins >:(
How much Propranolol do U usually take and when?
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40mg propranolol as and when.
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Is it an internal trembling / wobbly feeling? If so, I've had that in the past couple of days and it's horrible. Are you eating regularly? I wonder if mine could be blood sugar related as I've been away and not eating the healthiest.
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If you do a search on internal trembling, you’ll find a lot of comments from sufferers; me being one of them!
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Yes Penguin, it’s an internal vibration, horrid.
In the main, my diet is pretty steady and healthy.
It started during the early hours of today.
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I have no idea how long this medication lasts in the body. :-\. Had U thought of taking 40mg at night for a week? Give the anxiety less chance of kicking in, I used 20mg every night which suited me well.
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Nas, these were my worst symptoms... sorry to say, only raising estrogen quite a lot has helped.
I do think cortisol was involved but not as the cause but as another symptom. As in - insomnia itself raises cortisol. I think sex hormones drop which causes cortisol to go high.
I was taking everything that exists to lower cortisol (zinc, ashwaganda, Alpha GPC etc) and targeting the times of day when mine was high and it wasn't doing anything with my sleep. Only getting estrogen up has helped but I still have residual symptoms and would like to go even higher - but I'm waiting for results of bloods I'm getting done next week because my dose is high.
I was generally fine during the day (albeit a zombie from lack of sleep), then at night:
- As soon as I got in bed and laid down and started to get sleepy, my heart would race up to 95bpm - including during my sleep. (My resting heart rate in my sleep is usually around 40bpm, which is very slow, so this was ridiculous.)
- My heart would also feel like it was beating really hard. If I looked down at my chest, I could see my aortic pulse and if I turned on my side I could hear it in my ear on the pillow.
- I would have inner tremors which sometimes came on early evening in my feet but got worst at night. At their worse they felt like they were in my core, as if the bed itself was moving under me.
- I would also get hypnic jerks or startling awake every time I began to fall asleep. I would startle to any noise in the house (even if it was a normal house hold noise I wasn't bothered about). Sometimes this was a physical jerk of muscles and sometimes it felt like a psychological startle where I was suddenly awake.
These are/were my awful nighttime symptoms I have been on a quest to address for years now. And as I said only getting my E into the 450-650pmol range (estimated - TBC next week) has helped. But I think maybe you can't take E, so not sure that helps much. I was prescribed bisoprolol (beta blocker) which did pretty much nothing so gave up on that.
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I wake with it every morning and have had major bladder issues since January. I also use propanalol but doesn’t always help. I’m having indications I might need a higher dose patch but I am terrified to try as had a nightmare to get a settled dose.
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Thanks joziel,
Yes it’s a right old palava, I’m not sure what to do. You are right in that I can’t take E and I fear just throwing supplements at my body, is a waste of time and money.
I wish I had my own personal MS that could help me.
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donnacrichton, I hope you can get established on a decent dose of oestrogen soon; bladder issues are hell on earth! Propranol does zero for me!
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I think, if I couldn't take E, I would be experimenting with ADs and psychiatric meds by now. They wanted to give me pregabalin.
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Yes, I’ve pretty much come to that point. I’m going to be sacked at this rate, due to lack of sleep and just a general “ disconnection” from people and society.
Trouble is, I fear the start up effects if these drugs and having to work, in a potentially worse state than I am now, just until the anti depressants kick in.
Is it worth asking the GP do you think, or try to find a private psychologist who might be more in the loop with these drugs?
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It's probably best to do your own research online and then tell the doctor what you want to try(!). I mean, otherwise all this private health stuff just gets really expensive.
If you do see a private psychiatrist try to find someone who specialises in menopause.
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It's probably best to do your own research online and then tell the doctor what you want to try(!). I mean, otherwise all this private health stuff just gets really expensive.
If you do see a private psychiatrist try to find someone who specialises in menopause.
Yes good plan. I think private psychiatrist is the way forward.
On a mission now! :)