Internal Tremors, Shaking, Jitters

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Hello Lovlies,

Anytime I come across useful information I like to share. The only way to get through this "transition" in the best possible way is to stay informed as to what is going on with our bodies. Being as though every woman is different, what may work for one may not work for the other. But knowledge is key to being able to live our lives the best and healthiest way possible.

With that being said, I came across some information on the internal shaking and jitters. Now this info may not apply to you, but if if does, by all means take it and do more research on your own to help yourself. Some of the first symtpoms that I expierenced that started to really ramp up anxiety for me is the racing heart and the internal shaking. I felt the the shaking in my chest and stomach mainly, but I could feel it all over. At times I would get the racing heart with it.

The shakiness and jitters first. We already know that the decline in estradiol can affect blood sugars, and digestive issues. For some the shakiness and jitters can be due to the blood sugars and dietary changes can help to stable that during peri/meno if you are not a true diabetic. It can also be due to anxiety and adrenaline surges. The other possibility can be digestive related. Since the digestive system is affected by declining hormones we digest food slower and have more gas than we usually do as well as an excess of stomach acid. I since have been diagnosed with GERD as many women do in peri/meno and I do have excessive gas and stomach acid which causes that burning feeling. For me what has been causing that internal shaky feeling in my chest and stomach is stomach acid putting pressure behind the breast bone which irritates the vagus nerve that can cause the anxiety type symptoms. If I chew a tums or take an acid reflux tablet the internal shakiness and jitters stop. Drinking chamomile tea, ginger capsules or tea, tums, rolaids, omeprazole, zantac, cal/mags or whareverse you choose to use calms the stomach acid, calms the vagus nerve and neutralizes excess gas. Also when the vagus nerve is irritated it can cause heart palps and that is why when your reflux is acting up the excess acid pushing the vagus nerve can start palps. Now again this may not be the case for all, but it may be for some. So I thought that I would share the info just in case it may help you.

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    Thank you Jamie for this info. I too suffer with heartburn and sometimes it can trigger my anxiety. This all makes sense. We always associate heartburn/reflux with just the chest burn but there are other side effects that GERD can bring about. So i will try to remember this when this happens. Does it also cause that swaying sensation like the room is moving?
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    Thank you. I too get the jitters tremors shakes and I also have gerd

    Makes sense x

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    thanks jamie.  I discovered myself a while back that my heart palps got better when I took a spoonful of antacid medicine or camomile tea and that's after being sent for all sorts of heart tests by my doctor.  still annoyed with him for not recognising it and letting me suffer with anxiety for so long. grrrr
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      No problem. I started looking into it after several heart tests and being told nothing was wrong. I also noticed that at times after eating or drinking something I would get that shaky feeling in my chest or stomach and then the palps would start or when my stomach or chest would burn, sometimes I get palps. This is what I found after the ER told me several times I had GERD. Now I know why I feel better after taking famotidine or chewing a tums.
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      yes, it's maddening when you think of how a lot of anxiety could have been stopped by having the information that you just posted at the start of all this.  It's funny though, all those months ago, a nurse who was training to be a nutritionalist said to me that a lot of problems can be solved by sorting your stomach out, of course, I was crippled with anxiety at the time over constant heart palps and thinking something major was wrong with my heart to believe her, but she was right.  Stupid doctor didn't mention stomach at all.  I took a spoonful of gavis con and problem was solved. unbelieveable!
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      Hi

      Good to hear from you

      So do you think that gaviscon soothed your stomach which then helped to fix your anxiety?

      Thanks 😀

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      hi shelagh

      yes, definitely.  the anxiety would build when the palps would start and get worse and worse, stomach felt nauseous, felt jittery etc., especially at night, awful.  Then i would run to doctors and get sent for tests.  No mention of stomach problems.  This all started with mad hormones, did not have it before, and was and I was like that for months.  The palpitations were the worst symptom for me because they sent my anxiety sky-high.  So yes, I tried gaviscon and the palps subsided and the anxiety went.  Now when I start to feel jittery, a spoonful of gaviscon sorts the stomach out and I am much more relaxed and no thumping heart.  Much better than taking anxiety pills which the doctor was insisting I needed.  do you have the same problem?

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      Thanks. I seem to get amped up anxiety after eating, then the belching and bloating starts
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      Hi

      Yes I do. Seems to be a chain reaction. You will laugh but I have literally just gone in the kitchen in my FirstAid box and found a bottle of Gaviscon that is about three years old and I've had 2 teaspoons of it already !!! Ha ha

      I'll try anything! I'm going to take some every day and see what happens, would you suggest taking it just after food or would you suggest suggest waiting for the jitters to start and then taking it? I've been poorly with all this since end Jan so have HAD ENOUGH of it now as I no longer have a life.

      Thank you for this tip, I'm sure lots of peeps will benefit from it.

      😀X

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      ha.  not sure about 3 year old gaviscon!  get yourself a new one tomorrow.  See if it works though, might have lost it's magic!.  When I first took it, I was a jittering wreck and the deep breathing etc, just wasn't working, so took the spoonful then and I was amazed.  Then the following day took it before evening meal and no jittery feelings.  Now I just take it once every evening because this is when these feelings and palps seem to affect me most.  and it works.  Now I am not worried by my heart anymore. really!  If it solves this for you, you're halfway there, because there is nothing worse than jitters and funny heart and then anxiety that comes from that. uhh!  It's all bad enough this time of life.
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      Brilliant tip, I will definitely be taking it every evening now ( a new bottle will be purchased tomorrow)! X
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      You know that was something I didn't really know either. Im sure I have some hormonal things going on but I think if I get my gut in order that will make me a feel a lot better also. The change is something I can't escape and I accept that but what makes me mad is that no real knowledge was ever told to me of peri or pre menopause. I would have been taking better care of myself and eating better if I had known. It probably would have made some of the symptoms less severe. We are going to get what we're going to get, but at least I would have been in a little better shape when this stuff started happening.
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      It definitely helped my stomach. It didn't completely cure my anxiety but it helped to reduce it. The internal shakiness and heart palps was what scared me the most snd caused the anxiety thinking I had a very serious illness. I can deal with anxiety hitting every now and then and as hormones fluctuate it's going to happen. It's the back to back anxiety attacks that worries me. It's a lot of stress on your mind and body.
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      yes i know.  I cannot believe how ignorant I was to all of this.  I wish someone, anyone would have told me that it might hit me bad and to be prepared. But no, was thrown into it and had no idea what was happening to me.  Couldn't believe that this was how pre menopause affected me and of course thought it was something else major going on, because that is how it felt and I didn't know and neither did the doctors.  and I agree, if we had looked after ourselves in the run-up to it, I am sure the symptoms would not have been as severe. And it will just keep happening to women over and over, as the only really I now know so much was by finding this site.  No-one tells you anything until you're slap-bang in the worst of it.
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      meant to say 'the only REASON i now know (not 'really' I now know.)
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      Me too. That caused some of me not eating too. I was scared to eat thinking that the palps would start because after eating I would get jittery and shaky in the stomach and chest and then anxious, then the thumping heart. At times I would get the burning in my stomach and heartburn really bad. Needless to say I never had that either until all this started. My stomach is churning and burning a little now. I just ate some chicken about an hour ago. It's never ending.
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      Same for me. I never even knew there was a pre or perimeno. I just thought you get hot flushes and your periods stop. Even though I saw my mom go through it, she didn't know it either and thought it was nerves and the docs was treating her for "bad nerves".

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