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Since just a little while into this diet program I have

had irregular heartbeats and shortness of breath.

It is worse when I eat (sometimes) and when I try

to sleep, also I often awake around 4am with increased

heartbeat symptoms.

I have been through the gamut of heart tests, pulmonary

tests are nearly completed with nothing found, and am

preparing to see an allergist just in case. Had a cortisyn

stimulation test. My endo said if I had adrenal problems

my bp should have elevated, instead it went very low,

the diastolic going into the 40s and other symptoms that

looked like heart attack turned out to be a gastric reaction

to the cortisol injection. I'm in a small town, the endo is

from Kenya (and seems to be very bright although young)

and she could not connect how the drop in bp might

indicate adrenal problems according to her experience.

The irregular beats have been picked on several tests

and I wore a heart monitor for a month and it picked

them up almost continually, all hours and situations.

I have done some reading on postural hypotensions and

postural tacchycardia. Those can be related to dehydration.

Any suggestions or thoughts that might help me through

diet or supplements. OR any ideas what might be going

on?

I have had some extraordinary events during this time

that have been stressful but the pending diagnosis of

anxiety attacks don't fit my profile. I have been through

things that probably very few go through and yet no

history of anxiety attacks during those horrific events.

So I am not ready to be labeled without finding out

more.

Marge