momof2
08-11-05, 15:36
Hi all,
I recently saw my cardiologist because I've been wearing a 30 day event monitor to watch all of the palpitations and racing heart I've been having. He says my heart is structurally fine with no blockages and no apparent defects but he told me that he thinks I have something called POTS , (postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome) non-life threatening I might add) it is a disorder of the automonic nervous system. He asked me if I had always been a nervous person and/or experienced frequent panic attacks through out my life. My answer was an astounding YES!!! I also told him of all of the dizziness and night sweats, wobbly legs, feeling spacey, etc. He said it was all linked to this disorder of the autonomic nervous system, the one that controls our "fight or flight". He explained it to me that type A personality people are very prone to this and we tend to overwork our adrenal glands that lie on top of our kidneys , they are what produces our adrenaline and epinephrine in our body. When we have extreme stressors (which I have had) it puts us into a storm so to speak. This is all new and very interesting to me. I'm a little bit sceptical but I've been doing research and I'll have to say that every symptom fits. But being a high anxiety person, it seems that I ususally have every symptom of any disease I read about. LOL!. Has anyone else heard of this? I'm really curious to know if there might be another medical condition besides just being anxious that is my problem.
Thanks a bunch,
Terri Lynn
I recently saw my cardiologist because I've been wearing a 30 day event monitor to watch all of the palpitations and racing heart I've been having. He says my heart is structurally fine with no blockages and no apparent defects but he told me that he thinks I have something called POTS , (postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome) non-life threatening I might add) it is a disorder of the automonic nervous system. He asked me if I had always been a nervous person and/or experienced frequent panic attacks through out my life. My answer was an astounding YES!!! I also told him of all of the dizziness and night sweats, wobbly legs, feeling spacey, etc. He said it was all linked to this disorder of the autonomic nervous system, the one that controls our "fight or flight". He explained it to me that type A personality people are very prone to this and we tend to overwork our adrenal glands that lie on top of our kidneys , they are what produces our adrenaline and epinephrine in our body. When we have extreme stressors (which I have had) it puts us into a storm so to speak. This is all new and very interesting to me. I'm a little bit sceptical but I've been doing research and I'll have to say that every symptom fits. But being a high anxiety person, it seems that I ususally have every symptom of any disease I read about. LOL!. Has anyone else heard of this? I'm really curious to know if there might be another medical condition besides just being anxious that is my problem.
Thanks a bunch,
Terri Lynn