Ovulation - Anxiety-Panic-Heart Racing Part 1 of 2

i wouldnt say they were any bigger than that, but i have never seen that so it scared me and i freaked out. ever since then i have had these symptoms..... heart racing, shortness of breath, tingling in my legs and headaches and i just feel aggravated, everone says its anxiety because im always thinking about it, but more stuff has happened since that lol. we are about to move and it puts my job an hour away and gas is so high. my co worker and i dont get along, i have been broke since i dont have insurance and have had a lot of dental work so now i dont have to buy what i need. im just not happy anymore, i dont no what to do.......... and on top of all that my sons father has nothing to do with him and he just got remarried. im not sure if everything just hit me at once but thats what im thinking. i dont have the money go see a doctor right now so im just toughin in out. and i dont think its anything serious because like i said when im busy or if im having fun these symptoms arent presant, when im home and its quiet and im alone or thinking about all of this it happens. what do you think it could be?

I am 23.

In reading this forum I noticed that most of the women here are pre-menopausal age, but then I go, wait... I'm experiencing these symptoms.

EVERY month, 15 days into my montly cycle I experience

1) Increased anxiety

2) Painful cramping

3) Increased tiredness, pratically lathargic

4) Fuzzy brain, like can't focus at all.

5) Unecessary worrying, this is when I have huge fights with my bf, or family, or difficulties in school.

This cycle is again repeated near my period. 5 days before until it comes.

I honestly WOULD LIKE SOME ANSWERS, because I can't imagine living a life of up and downs and hot and colds for many more years from now.

I have been diagnosed with general anxiety disorder and social anxiety disorder, but I think it's hormone-related and I want to fix it.

Anyone getting any answers????
thank you.

  sad and frustrated.

Oh wow..so glad I found this. I am in the midst of palpatations and feeling like my body is vibrating(anyone else experience that) shaky and stupid anxious thoughts and unable to eat. I did not sleep at all last night..could not fall asleep as my head was full of thoughts...awful..very very depressing. This has been going on for months now..since April...and I am 36 and cant work out why this has all started out of the blue. I always was a bit irritable around period time and snappy..as a teenager I cried all the time...but nothing like this. I am due a period in 3 days and didnt link it together until I looked and saw this. I cant believe so many women are meant to just go through this feeling of despair each month without there being an answer to it..there must be something to calm the system down. I am tired and so miserable for at least a week before my period looking back on it all...I just cant bvelieve I never saw it before.

The weird thing is I had been seeing a homeopath for my anxiety and I only saw her 10 days ago and she couldnt believe how well I looked and how positive I seemed..fast forward to today and I havent even bothered washing my hair...just want to curl up and sleep till its over...If anyone has found something that helps..please let me know

Kirsty

As I have posted prior I had a radical hyserectomy so I dont get this
BUT I see and have had daughter tell me she does feel more ansgt and alot of stress and many of the SX you all have

I also see alot of new members
I am hoping you will post under the Thread
that tells us about you I will bring it back up if not at top k

A warm welcome to all

....LYN

Kirsty

I am sorry you are having a rough time and I know not sleeping well is tough.  I have been through that myself.

Glad to hear you are going to follow up with your physician to be retested.

Keep talking to us.

Hugs

Kitt

hi everyone. im knew here. im sooo glad i found this. like many of you, i googled ovulation anxiety!
i had my first panic attack at the age of 11, i remember it because i was on a bike ride with my mum going to the shops. it was the most scariest thing i had ever experianced. i wouldnt leave the house for a few days, so my mum called the Doctor, who said it was related to hormones and said i could be starting my period very soon. no doubt with-in a few days, i became a little lady!!! what a shock that was at 11 LOL.
my panic attacks went away pretty soon afterwards untill i was 15! again, i remember this like it was yesterday. i was walking across the carpark at my old school and all of a suddon it came on. i was sent home from school that day. after that they came on more often. my Doctor prescribed me Anafranil, he said i was suffering with depression due to the stress of exams at school and being bullied (which didnt really effect me that much to be honest!) so at 15, i was put on anti-depressants that made me so sick, i was in bed for a whole week, feeling faint, dizzy, vomiting, sleepy, then insomnia! i couldnt win. but after a week or so, i felt cured! no more panic attacks! being 15, i was always out with my friends and didnt really have time to go down the Doctors for check ups, and because i felt fine, i took myself off the drugs! BIG MISTAKE! my panic attacks got so bad, and the depression was awfull! i wouldnt get out of bed for days on end, pretty unhygeneic to say the least! the Doctor then put me on Paxil (seroxat)... im not really sure what to make of these drugs as theres so many mixed feelings about them! i started self harming, got insomnia and they took ages to make me feel even slightly better! after 8years im now addicted and to frightened to come off them as i've read some of the most frightening reviews about people withdrawing off them!... anyway, im going on here LOL... my point about my story is, apart from when i was 11 and experienced my first panic attack, NO ONE (not even psychiatrist's) have mentioned anything about it may being due to hormones!!! i have notised every 2weeks after coming off of my period, my panic attacks and depression get worse! but as soon as my period starts (a day or 2 later) i seem to feel fine again! i think i will be bringing this up next time i see my Doctor. its honestly ruining my life as its already split up my relationship with my boyfriend, because as many of you have pointed out, during this time, you dont really want to do anything. i often get scared to do things. just wish there was something i could do/take, to help!
anyway... thanks for reading if you have LOL.
take care everyone
xxx

I am so sorry to hear that so many of you suffer from anxiety/panic doisorder, however, I am glad to hear that I am not alone.  I too notice that around the time of ovulation (and menstruation) my symptoms of anxiety/panic get worse.  It is 2:25AM right now.  I cannot sleep.   My heart has been racing.  I am on a low dose of Prozac because I have had bad reactions (increase of symptoms) from Celexa and Lexapro and I also take Xanax XR on a daily basis.  For the most part I find the combo to be helpful, but during times of "hormonal flucuation" I have brekthrough symptoms.  I also suffer from migraines and find that my anxiety increases during the attacks.  I only experience of a window of about a week out of every four that I can say I actually feel "good."  I also believe that perimenopause is the culprit, but like many of you I cannot find a Dr who will do an in depth hormonal screening.  They say it is useless because hormones fluctuate.  I am open to any suggestions and will share any info that I come across.  Good luck to everyone!!!  It's hard being a woman!  LOL!

Hello, I can't believe I found a forum that has others that suffer like me. To make a long story short, I started out last November with these skipped heartbeats. It would scare me, but I would try to ignore them. Well then became the first severe panic attack on Feb 24th of this year, sent me straight to the hospital, I swore I was dying. I been to the ER 4 more times since that first. I figured it all out when I noticed all the times I've been to the ER was around ovulation or 1 week before period was due. My poor hubby and children had to endure many nights I thought I was dying, the Palpatations, the extreme fatigue, the skipping beats, the numbness in my arms, the chest pains, my spikes in blood pressure, traycardia, blurred vision, the feeling I was having a heartattack or stroke. I felt I lost control of my whole life. It has almost cost me my marriage. Thankfully he loves me enough to stick through this. I'm 38 years old, and I mentioned to doctors about perimenopause, but they all told me i'm too young to go through that. My life has been a mess, I'm so depressed I miss that person I used to be. I may only get one week out the month that I actually feel normal. I tried zoloft for a few days, but didn't really like side effects. Now i'm looking for a natural approach for this. Thanks for reading

Thank you for making me feel normal, especially this post, as if you are describing me! expect that this started after having my son, he is 3 and a half years old now. not taking any medication though.. hang on.. i WISH there is a simple explenation to what is happening to us

canadagirl75 said...

Hi all...I am new to this board, but found it when googling my problems. I too suffer from really bad anxiety/panic attacks around ovulation and my period. It's been awful. I just turned 33 and have a 2 1/2 year old daughter. A month after she turned 1 is when all of this started. It got so bad, that I had to take a leave from work and I just returned 6 weeks ago after being off for 14 months. Today for example is a bad day. I am dizzy, feel panicky, nauseous, crampy, etc and I am 2 days away from ovulation. I feel ok after ovulation is over, but then the symptoms ramp up again with my PMS. With no reliable Doctor, it's hard for me to access someone who will really listen and try to understand what I am going through. I have now been told that I should see a psychiatrist, which is pointless. I KNOW it's my body-not that I am crazy! I have tried everything I can to help myself. I am currently taking 20mgs of Celexa a day, but I am going to up it to 40mgs. I have tried Atavan, but it's only a short fix and gave up on it. It's comforting to know that we are not alone. I just wish there was more that could be done to help us.

This is an interesting thread as i have always thought my anxiety/panic was an hormonal thing as the start of my anxiety i had a bad stomach virus during which time i forgot to take my pill, i did not take it then for 2 months during which time my anxiety/panic got considerably worse, my last docs appt assured me that this has nothing to do with the anxiety but i just started my pill again about 2 weeks ago and the last few days i have been feeling more like myself i dont know whether this is due to the pill or my meds im taking as im just going into the 4th week with those, but just to be on safe side im not going to suddenly stop my pill again.

I have the exact same thing heart palpitations flutters serious thumps jumps that settle around ovulation and pms - very bad pms....trying acupuncture now - HELP!  Whay aren't there more studies on hormones?

I have a similar story. I'm 38, proper weight, relatively active, no smoke, no health issues, and 2 1/2 years ago, shortly after my second daughter was born, I started having vaginal cramps around ovulation, plus discharge. They weren't ovulation cramps on the sides, it was in the middle, and it hurt. I was also having severe heart palpitations, migraines, anxiety (who knows which came first...), no appetite, dry mouth, dizziness, racing heart, insomnia...etc. I swore to God I was dying of something, and I was totally freaked out. I saw saw my dr and had an ekg plus thyroid tests done. Everything was fine. I wore a holter monitor for a month, everything was fine. They tested my glucose levels, hormone levels, electrolyte levels, I had a CBC...they gave me every test under the sun. Everything checked out normal.

But this crap is not normal. I felt like I needed to see someone who specialized in the natural treatment of hormones and vaginas, so about a year ago I saw a recommended midwife/naturopath in my area. After a 2 hour discussion, we decided I should do these things:

1. no coffee (I had already not been drinking coffee)
2. no wheat (this was and is the hard part)
3. good daily multivitamin
4. minimal sugar
5. daily ingestion of deep greens (lettuce does not count)
6. hormone balancing herbal tincture (yam, black cohosh, vitex, cramp bark) varying amounts
7. liver assisting tincture (dandelion and burdock) daily
8. motherwort tincture as needed to calm symptoms (very helpful for me)
9. I also make myself a quart of nettle infusion a few times a week and drink it.

The idea was that around ovulation the hormones fluctuate and the liver has to clean all that up. If your liver is loaded down with trying to deal with all the simple carbs (wheat), it can't keep up with getting the hormones out safely. Hormone overload causes all these symptoms.

Also, beautiful as they are, pregnancy and childbirth are very hard on our bodies. I lost a lot of blood, plus I breast fed, so it was difficult for my body to return to normal.

You would not believe what a difference this made. I kept a detailed record of my symptoms over the months, and they dwindled to almost none (I still get the migraine...and an occasional rogue palpatation...). Then I fell off the "wagon"...for valentines my husband made me a cake, full of wheat and sugar, and it was delicious. Then it was my daughter's birthday. More delicious cake. Then it was my birthday. Then it was my husband's birthday. Then I made a huge pan of lasagne.

And guess what? All those same symptoms came right back, right at ovulation, just like clockwork. And it sucked.

I hope some of what I'm doing can help some of you...because this thing is real, and it's not fun. But try and see a midwife/naturopath if you can about the herbs. I'm not sure about the ratios she gave me, your ratios may be different depending on your situation/body. I'm supposed to take a different amount before ovulation than after ovulation, and none at all during my period. The hormone balancing herbs are for short term, but the dandelion and burdock can be taken indefinitely.

Peace.

Post Edited (Honeybee777) : 5/23/2009 8:40:08 PM (GMT-6)

I'd been having similar symptoms, and found a thing that helped me. Maybe it can help you too. Check my post.

miss72ski said...
Oh wow..so glad I found this. I am in the midst of palpatations and feeling like my body is vibrating(anyone else experience that) shaky and stupid anxious thoughts and unable to eat. I did not sleep at all last night..could not fall asleep as my head was full of thoughts...awful..very very depressing. This has been going on for months now..since April...and I am 36 and cant work out why this has all started out of the blue. I always was a bit irritable around period time and snappy..as a teenager I cried all the time...but nothing like this. I am due a period in 3 days and didnt link it together until I looked and saw this. I cant believe so many women are meant to just go through this feeling of despair each month without there being an answer to it..there must be something to calm the system down. I am tired and so miserable for at least a week before my period looking back on it all...I just cant bvelieve I never saw it before.

The weird thing is I had been seeing a homeopath for my anxiety and I only saw her 10 days ago and she couldnt believe how well I looked and how positive I seemed..fast forward to today and I havent even bothered washing my hair...just want to curl up and sleep till its over...If anyone has found something that helps..please let me know



Kirsty