I am very concerned about how I felt last night and very confused.
I value your opinion, RLR.

First of all, I can't afford any more testing or running to the ER for my ailment.
I have very poor insurance and many unpaid medical bills from seeing psychiatrists and other drs for heart palpitations, to no avail.  My husband has a serious heart ailment, in fact he only has one artery to his heart and it's 85% blocked.  They tried to open it three times and he almost died.  Because of this he was cancelled by our health insurance co.
So, I don't have a lot of resources for my health.

I will mention that I have dealt with heart palpitations for over 30 years.
I have had numerous ekg's, echos and holter monitors.  They never find anything wrong.

Here is the story:
I went to my gynecologist recently and told her about the heart palpitations and hot/cold spells at night.
She tested my hormone level and said it was very low.
I had a complete hysterectomy years ago and have been on estrogen since.
She upped my vivelle dot patch from .05 to .75.

I noticed last week, after I put the stronger patch on, the next day I felt irritable.  I called and the nurse said maybe I had to get used to it.

Well, then last week, I got food poisoning and was very sick the whole week.

I changed my patch on Sunday morning.  On Sunday afternoon I began having heart palpitations.  I was sewing and they happened several times in a row.  I became very upset. When I put my hand over my chest, it felt like my heart was racing.
Then after I took some deep breaths, it stopped.

Mind you, my stomach was still upset and I had gerd acting up.

Last night, I was sitting at the kitchen table trying to eat, and I start getting palpitations.  I felt like my heart was racing too. I also felt hot and sweaty. I also started having bad stomach reflux.
I became so anxious and scared that I told my husband I wanted to go to the hospital.

He said that I was working myself up and to calm down.

I got on my computer and posted in a menopause room what was happening.  People started posting for me to call 911 and go to the ER.
This made me more anxious.

I then started to take deep breaths to calm down and felt much better.

RLR, you are the only one I have to ask for advice.

Can too much estrogen do this?  Can gerd?

My husband thinks I made it worse when it started.

Now I am afraid of it happening again.

Thank you so much for reading my post and for your opinion.

May I ask, have you have tried a light regular cardiovascular workout?  It may seem counterintuitive to having palps but I am having increasing luck with it.

Light cardio is getting your heart into the target zone for at least 20 minutes, 3x/week.  Also, no sooner than 2 hours after a meal.

Do you have any thoughts about this?

Nick