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Posted 7/24/2013 11:19 PM (GMT 0)
Panic Attacks run in my family and my niece has been having heart palpitations for the last few days. She went to the ER today and she told the doctor that she thought that her palpitations might be hormone related and he told her that he has never heard of hormones causing heart palpitations. Really?? How can a doctor be so clueless? All you have to do is look up "Heart Palpitations" and hormones along with many other things like anxiety and too much caffeine is listed as a possible causes.

She ended up leaving and not getting much help so I guess I am just venting or asking if this could possibly be true? I always thought that for women hormones could cause heart palpitations. I just don't get how a doctor would not know this.
Posted 7/25/2013 1:20 AM (GMT 0)
I was actually just on google bad idea lol anyway I just read that hormones CAN cause palpitations
Posted 7/25/2013 2:36 AM (GMT 0)
When my wife was going through PAD we always thought hormones were connected, so many women here have extra hard time during their cycle all I can tell you is don't go to a male Dr.
sometimes they are dumb as a stump. "Of course I'm not" lol
It just seems like some girl problems go over a male dr. head. Peace

Larry ***
Posted 7/25/2013 4:17 AM (GMT 0)
I think that unfortunately some doctors take what they learned in medical school, and stop there.  This hormone palpitation/anxiety connection may not be taught in the cirriculum...but that doesn't mean that it doesn't happen!

There is continued learing to be done in any vocation. Listening to their patients, reading new articles...even learning about alternative medicine and practices should be part of the learning curve for any good MD in my opinion!

Yes, I believe that there is a correlation, and that this doctor missed the mark here!

Good for you in sticking up for your niece. I hope that you can find some good information for her. Several things can be done to help, including exercise, nutritional changes and suppliments.

Perhaps you can invite her to post with us here as well?

Good to hear from you! I hope all is well in your world.:)

S.C.
Posted 7/25/2013 11:27 AM (GMT 0)
A doctor told me the same thing and it is bull. Being a woman and just ending a cycle, hormones do affect anxiety. Still trying to figure it all out but I do know next month I will avoid sugar like the plague! I think changes in diet will be key for me.
Posted 7/25/2013 12:14 PM (GMT 0)
Thank you everyone for your responses. I felt so bad for my niece because she ended up just leaving the ER and not getting the help she deserved or needed. Instead she walked out feeling very embarrassed and confused. I know that as a woman that hormones play a big part in my anxiety levels. Right before my cycle i am a wreck, can't sleep, feel doomed and guilty for no reason.
Posted 7/25/2013 3:00 PM (GMT 0)
I would love for men to have to go through the monthly cycles like we do! We would run out of PMS Meds and Anxiety Meds in a heartbeat!

Lisa
Posted 7/25/2013 4:08 PM (GMT 0)
LOL Lisa!! So true! The doctor didn't even have clue about hormones apparently!! Too bad she didn't get a woman doctor at the ER. I go to a female OBGYN now because I find that she always knows what I am talking about no matter what I am going through. I don't know why I waited so long to go to a female doctor after years of getting nothing but dead stares and nothing from my male OBGYN.
Posted 7/25/2013 10:05 PM (GMT 0)
No insurance? Doc's tell me things aren't related when you can clearly read about it and they are, I believe a lot of it is due to no insurance.
Posted 7/26/2013 2:32 AM (GMT 0)
I find that interesting I never thought hormones played a part with heart palpating... I'm having problems with my ovaries so my hormones have been out of whack.. Which I kept asking the doctors if it could all be connected and they kept telling me no but I felt differently about it..
Posted 7/26/2013 5:31 AM (GMT 0)
Fluctuations in hormone levels can definitely cause palpitations, along with increased anxiety. My OBGYN told me this. Right before your cycle, and right after, when your hormones are fluctuating the most, is when you'll find your anxiety running amok!

Mine did for years, and still do! Then we had the "talk" about peri-menopause, and how many women have never had anxiety or panic attacks in their lives, and all of the sudden, as soon as they hit this time in their life, they started getting them out of nowhere!

That ER doc was full of crap! Hormones are a big cause of anxiety, especially in women!
Posted 7/26/2013 8:15 AM (GMT 0)
I definitely have to agree with what Fox stated. I never had panic attacks until about a year ago when I turned 45. I also started having the hot flashes and other symptoms of menopause or pre menopause or whatever you want to call it lol. All I know is that this is totally alien to me and it's driving me crazy some days. So yes, I do think that hormones can play a part in it, especially if you have never experienced this before and all of a sudden wham it hits you from out of nowhere.
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