Waking up from sound sleep with extremely fast and powerful heartbeat

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Ladies I Have had two episodes in the last week that scared me to death. I wake up in the early morning from a sound sleep with an extremely fast and powerful heart rate that lasts for about a minute. This is a new symptom that has me very scared I'm going to have a heart attack. Have any of you ladies suffered with this??

Debbie ❤️

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    This also started for me in jan woke up pounding heart sweating dizzy and feeling really ill thought i was having a heat attack rang 999 but all was fine with heart but bp was 118/180 slowly settled to 107/160 but i do have high bp got told 2 wks later after it kept happening i had peri menopausal anxiety and had 8 wks off work getting use to it now(sort of) and back work but still makes you panic when it comes out of the blue but i just tell myself its not turned into any serious before so just calm my breathing and try to chill i just get back into bed and watch tv then find i fall back sleep for a while but know how you feel its horrid but all part and parcel of this crap they call the menopause big hugs xx

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    I've had this and have worked out that if I'm in a deep sleep and I must be dreaming I think I may be snoring and it's a form of sleep apnea(not sure how it's spelt)) I cut my breathing off and I also have a thumping headache for a wee while.

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