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premenopause and hormones

premenopause and hormones

My heart specialist and Dr. both are ignoring my persistence in the hormone changes in my body that come every 2 or 2 1/2 weeks that cause MAJOR artrial fibrillation.  They try to surgery the system which is major AFib instead of helping me with the cause:  Hormone changes.  Their tests show thyroid is right, but I know it's not.  I just finished reading Dr. John R. Lee, M.D. "What your doctor may not tell you about premenopause"  and I cried with finally having answers.  The book was written for women like me.

I just had another ablation that went terribly wrong and ended up with water on the heart causing them to rush me from recovery back into surgery cuttung me open to place a tube for drainage.  It's been 2 weeks and I still feel horrible and can't walk up the stairs without thinking I'm having a heart attack or will soon have a stroke.  The heart doctors were UNABLE to kill the electroytes yet again and are stumped to see how bad I am and am becoming more so every day.  

It's all my adrenaline!  I lay flat and I begin to feel better.  I get up and my natural adreline kicks in and I'm down.

C'mon, I'm 47, 4 ft 10, and weight 105 lbs.  I'm very active and own two small businesses.  This all started 2 years ago, at the same time I noticed changes in my body.

I just started Progesterone cream and I hope this will correct some of the hormones I'm dealing with at this time of my life.
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I will post mostly noting the absence of post here and on your "poll".  Seems to me like a good question or area of study.  Maybe someone with experience will yet read.

I am very sympathetic about your ablation problems, and it adds testimony to the fact that the risks of ablation are real.  In my case of permanent AFig, both a consulting EP and my regular Cardiologist say no for me on ablation.  There are a number of reasons they give me, but he overriding one is risk verses reward.  My symptoms are relatively minor (hey, I feel better when in NSR - best I can remember, so part of that is due to the fact I was a couple of years younger) so the reward is "small' and does not justify the risk.

I also understand that ablation for AFib is the more complicated and risky of the many ablation procedures that are done.  I make that observation in the hope that someone considering ablation for WPW or some other "right side" ablation doesn't take too much negative from this thread.
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