Racing/Heart Palpitations & Private messages

[Megazoid]

Over the past few months i have received a large volume of messages from guy's asking for advice and help on there conditions. While i have become quite knowledgeable about these conditions (thanks to this forum and others) i am not a Dr but can offer advice/help on testicular problems, varicoceles and most hormonal problems (though just advice, nothing more). I have posted on various forums since the start of my personal ordeal (Anabolic Minds, Meso, StopTheThyroidMadness, medhelp and healthboards) and due to this can end up with 5/10 people a week contacting me asking for help. Because i care about everyone and want to give everyone the time they need i like to think about each persons condition for a while before replying.

While i intend to message everyone back, sometimes it becomes over-bearing, due to fatigue and tiredness. I still dealing with most of these problems myself and i feel somewhat of a hypocrit to give advice when i am not 100% myself. Though i hope to get there sometime soon.

Outside of my actual job, i make a second income from music production (i release original material and do remixes for artists), i need to prioritize this work because this is what i want to eventually make my full time living doing (Scoring soundtracks/cinematic work). I am scoring a documentary at present.

I know a few people over the past few weeks have sent me PM's and i promise to reply to everyone individually, but please bear with me. When I'm sitting board at work i will most likely think about each individual person's case and try to build up a proper "idea" of what's going (while back referencing some of the previous posts here), hopefully i can come up with something worthwhile.

I care and want to help everyone, but i am also trying to live a normal life and with constant focus on this illness (and hormonal problems in general) it can really draw my attention to what's going on in a bad way. Socializing with friends, composing music, going to the cinema or just watching a DVD is sometimes all i want to do (maybe the adrenal fatigue talking? ), so please don't take it personally when i don't respond within a day or two of you sending a message. I WILL get round to it.

I would also like to ask for some advice on the thread subject. There are a few things i have never experienced with these hormonal problems: Chronic/Bad Fatigue, Low Energy, Heart problems (palpitations/skipping beats/racing) and brain fog/memory problems.

At present i am medication free until i have time off work to allow myself to "feel bad" before getting better. When i did the levothryoixine and prednisone a week or so ago i felt terrible, even on low dosages, so i am going to need to start the cortisol replacement first then add in the thyroid a week later. I have a 3 week holiday from work in the coming weeks.

I am living a healthy life style: No drugs, no smoking, no drink, eating clean/healthy and excercising well daily. However only in the past few weeks have i experienced a few problems, my main concern right now is my heart starting to "Race" for no reason. I can literally be sitting watching a DVD (like tonight) and my heart will start racing with STRONG heart palpitations, like an anxiety attack i guess? I sometimes get a lightheaded dizziness too (even when i don't have the racing heart problems). I never had these thing's before.

I am a little scared because it's happening daily now. Is this adrenal fatigue, thyroid or sex hormones causing this problem? Does this mean my otherwise young and healthy heart is experiencing problems? Has anyone else experienced this and what would the best course of action be?

I thought this could be related to weakened tendons/ligaments holding my heart in place? It would make sense since every other area of my body is effected by weakened tendons/ligaments since the hormone problems started. Sometimes my chest "cracks" when i move (or clicks) and the tendons/ligaments feel stretched afterwards.

I have also heard low cortisol (and thyroid hormone?) could cause this. Any information would be great.

[griffinannie]

Mega, have you checked your ferritin? We tinkered with everything to find my cause and no luck anywhere. Then we checked ferritin. My ferritin was horribly low. After several weeks of iron supplementation no pounding, There are obviously lots of causes and I dont pretend to know this is your cause itjust happened to be mine.

[BILLYGRINGO]

I agree, there is a rare blood condition which is related to ferritin, I will ask my father the name and post it later, also see you Dr ask to wear a halter monitior so you can nail down when the "palpitations" start and stop,

regarding cracking in your chest I have had this problem before, no explanation for that heavy dumbell bress seemed to aggrevate it.

also when I get that dizzy feeling I usually drink more water !! and have a Cliff bar something with healthy carbs could be low blood sugar.


I will post condition name later or you could web MD low iron (ferritin) or excessive iron cannot remember which

later

gringo

[Temujin]

Megazoid, You didn't mention if you drink coffee of other caffeinated drinks. Too much of that can certainly make my heart race. Also too much sodium, especially together with caffeine. Not sure why the sodium does it -- something to do with the water retention, I guess. I get atrial fibrillation. It's not so much a racing as it feels like my heart is doing cartwheels in my chest.

[infoseeker]

Megazoid, you're thin, and so am I. I went through this last year, and I tried cutting out all caffeine and nothing improved - it only got worse. (not to say this might not help someone else, though.) I tried drinking more fluids - no immediate result, although I believe it takes a long time to build up a good reserve if mildly dehydrated - and I paid a lot of money for medical tests proving that my heart is fine.

No one came up with any answer, but I believe the answer was iron in my case, although of course I have a reason none of you guys have to be prone to low iron (being female!). I thought I was immune to iron problems, yet when I looked at my lab slips which had been declared OK, I saw iron on the low end of OK. I have since been eating more red meat, as previously I ate next to none, and since then the problem has been almost eradicated. I think it may have to do with low blood pressure and low blood volume and being tall and thin, but nutritional issues may be involved, also. Stress, too, but I've never accepted the answer that stress is all of it.

[masterpp]

keep your chin up boy

keen working at it and deal with things in your own time

i still think that armour is a better option though

what dossage of prednisone are you doing, and also was your cortisol elevated last time

,m

[love_en]

For me, a racing heart means not enough cortisol, salt and fluid volume. One without the other two does not work. For many years I was told that I had anxiety/depression and the presenting symptom was a racing heart with some PVC's thrown in for good measure. The best that could be done for me was heavy doses of beta blocker drugs. I am no longer on beta blocker drugs. I am on TRT and replacement HC. My heart does not race unless I am low on cortisol, salt and fluids.

[cjones]

Adrenals before thyroid always for insufficiency/low adrenal reserve or you could risk an adrenal crisis. The palpatations etc sound like an adverse effect to the drugs, I think not being on anything and getting started again with sorting your cortisol out will get you on your way

I hope Isocort providing 2.5MG natural cortisol in each pellet will get me on my way, oh how adrenals fuck you up!