let’s talk about hormones and the change. i’m 42 and perimenopausal. i also have no fear of the change. in fact i welcome it with open arms. and a lucky factor for me is that my mother and sister went through menopause in their early 40’s. my mother claims that she was 42 when she went through menopause. so goody for me.
in april i went for my physical and told my doctor (who happens to be a woman) that i am having symptoms of perimenopause and i have also been having heart flutters for years. this she knows because i always bitch about them. heart flutters can be one of the most annoying things to happen. the good part is, is that they are normal for the most part but for those who can feel them they can lead to anxiety. that’s what has happened to me. my flutters would last ALL day and then would lead to anxiety because they wouldn’t stop. i would gladly trade heart flutters for hot flashes. that’s how much they bother me.
i should also mention that there is no pain with the flutters. just an annoying extra beat that would not go away.
so on this office visit i told her that i had had enough. she at least believed me that i was perimenopausal and was experiencing symptoms but to be safe (cause that’s the kind of doctor i have) she wanted me to wear a event heart monitor for 30 days. well freaking great. i know several people who can walk into a doctor’s office and see a doctor they have never seen before and walk out with some addictive pain medication and i get the doctor who has to test everything before she will give up some non-addictive anti-anxiety drug. because that’s what i fully believe would relieve me of my flutters.
so anyhoo, i went a week later to pick up my heart monitor kit. it had little sticky tabs that get stuck to my body with metal tabs and a cord that had 2 leads that got clipped onto the little sticky tabs. then the cord gets hooked onto the monitor. now since i had an event monitor instead of a monitor that recorded all the time i had to push a button when i felt the flutters. an event monitor only records 3 events then you have to use a land line phone to send the information over. i did this for a month. after a month i mailed the monitor back in and on tuesday the nurse called to say that everything looked good but i was experiencing
Premature Ventricular Complexes or PVC’s for short. usually a normal occurrence during peri-. so before she hung up i said i wanted something to make them stop. a few hours later the nurse called back and said that the doctor would prescribe SERTRALINE. a generic zoloft. yeah yeah yeah. i have been on them for a day and a half now and i have experienced only the start of a flutter then they go away. i can’t wait to see what will happen months from now.
bring on the change mother nature.
4 years ago
