Heart palpitations can be terrifying…but for 43% of women in perimenopause, they’re actually a symptom of hormonal chaos. Leading OBGYN Dr. Mary Claire Haver breaks down why they happen, why misdiagnosis is so common, and what women need to know now to prepare. Hear "Dr. Mary Claire Haver: The Perimenopause Symptoms No One Warned You About" on The Tamsen Show #perimenopause #perimenopausesymptoms #thetamsenshow

heart palpitations, is that a perimenopause or a menopause? - A perimenopause, for sure. Again, chaos. So there's a node, a sinusoidal node, on the heart, that drives how your heart beats, kind of gives it that baseline. And so when it gets sporadicly fed in perimenopause, we see it go crazy. And so the palpitations that are hormonally related, which 43% of women will have significant palpitations in perimenopause. So here's this poor woman. 44 years old, rolling into the ER, scared to death. She's not sleeping. She's gained some weight. She's having horrible palpitations. She gets a million dollar workup, goes home with a month-long Holter Monitor, all this stuff, and no one in her clinical care was ever taught to connect the dots that all of these things are perimenopause. - The heart palpitations are so scary. I mean, you know, I've told this story a hundred times that I landed on the floor of the studio bathroom as a result of that. And I'll never forget, I was like, I'm gonna have a heart attack down here. I didn't know what was, it is very, very scary. And I've heard one woman after another and then exactly what you're saying. Go to the ER, go get workups, not know what's going on. Perimenopause never mentioned.