ilovethesea
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This question is for my mom, she's early 70s and had a few episodes of panic attacks and fainting over the past year. I mentioned in another thread that she had to have a pacemaker put in 2 weeks ago, as the last time she fainted she hit her head on concrete and her heart rate dropped to 29. (Normally it's in the 70s/80s.)
Now that she's back home after the surgery, she's still not feeling her normal self. She seems under extreme high stress, and is very anxious/depressed about having 'health problems' now. You have to walk on eggshells with her now to not get her upset, and she mentioned having a heart pain this morning for a minute during what she perceived as a stressful conversation. I told her to have a spoonful of sugar and it went away right away.
Also, a new symptom that she didn't have before is dizziness upon rising in the morning - particularly if she stands up too quickly. Also at the same time, numbness in the fingers (which goes away after a little while in the morning). Would this be hypotension? She did go back to the hospital to find out about the dizziness but they ran a bunch of heart tests and said everything was fine.
I believe she has high estrogen, low thyroid, high cortisol based on other symptoms - arthritis, belly fat, thinning hair, hot flashes.
She will take a tiny amount of Progest-E and some vitamin D drops but now the doctors have scared her off of doing anything else that is not "approved". They told her not to take aspirin or the Thorne vitamin K anymore - said it would cause dangerous blood clots. And that Tylenol or Advil were better!
I think she needs thyroid but she gets mad at me when I even mention it, as we wouldn't have a way of getting a prescription and it would involve fighting a lot of doctors, probably having to "go outside of the system" to get it into the country (which is what I have to do myself). She's not up for that fight and says she has to put her trust in the cardiologist.
Does anyone have any suggestions for what we can do?
Now that she's back home after the surgery, she's still not feeling her normal self. She seems under extreme high stress, and is very anxious/depressed about having 'health problems' now. You have to walk on eggshells with her now to not get her upset, and she mentioned having a heart pain this morning for a minute during what she perceived as a stressful conversation. I told her to have a spoonful of sugar and it went away right away.
Also, a new symptom that she didn't have before is dizziness upon rising in the morning - particularly if she stands up too quickly. Also at the same time, numbness in the fingers (which goes away after a little while in the morning). Would this be hypotension? She did go back to the hospital to find out about the dizziness but they ran a bunch of heart tests and said everything was fine.
I believe she has high estrogen, low thyroid, high cortisol based on other symptoms - arthritis, belly fat, thinning hair, hot flashes.
She will take a tiny amount of Progest-E and some vitamin D drops but now the doctors have scared her off of doing anything else that is not "approved". They told her not to take aspirin or the Thorne vitamin K anymore - said it would cause dangerous blood clots. And that Tylenol or Advil were better!
I think she needs thyroid but she gets mad at me when I even mention it, as we wouldn't have a way of getting a prescription and it would involve fighting a lot of doctors, probably having to "go outside of the system" to get it into the country (which is what I have to do myself). She's not up for that fight and says she has to put her trust in the cardiologist.
Does anyone have any suggestions for what we can do?