Hot flash & racing heart+ - Menopause Message Board

redherring · 10-05-2004, 12:00 AM

Has anyone woken up with a hot flash (drenched night clothes) with your heart RACING a mile a minute? Is this normal??

ainfante · 10-05-2004, 08:53 AM

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Originally Posted by redherring

Has anyone woken up with a hot flash (drenched night clothes) with your heart RACING a mile a minute? Is this normal??

Yes this can happen and be totally normal.

marys62 · 10-05-2004, 09:01 AM

I went through a period 2 years ago where I was experiencing flushes of heat followed by my heart racing. I wound up in the emergency room twice and to my Doctor multiple times before my OBGYN finally said it was probably hormonal. He put me on a low dose birth control pill and it stopped.

I did go to a cardiologist for a complete workup and echocardiogram and he determined everything was fine also.

This seems to be a very common symptom of perimenopause for a lot of women, but it is really nothing to worry about.

redherring · 10-05-2004, 10:10 AM

Thanks. This symptom is scary indeed. I felt like my heart was going to beat right out of my chest. Thanks goodness it only lasts about 5 minutes.

BTW - I just had a cardio workup and everything is fine.

virtous · 10-05-2004, 12:55 PM

Rapid heart beat and heart pounding is one of my symptons too. This is very scarey isn't it? I have a lot of other symptons and I would rather have any of those symptons than this rapid heart beat. I wish that there was a natural remedy that I could take to get rid of this sympton. If anyone else on this board had this same problem and don't have it anymore, please share with us what you did to get rid of this sympton. I just started taking Remeifin and it is too soon to know if this will work for me, but I heard that Remeifin doesn't help rapid heart beats only hot flashes.