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[Lucieb01]

at the hospital last week my consultant said the reason that I am sweating was I had high adrenalin and my heart cannot cope does anyone have this problem

[CDreamer]

Hi Lucie - the title of your post was ‘Unsure’. May I ask what are you unsure of? Many people have too much adrenaline and suffer the consequences - which can be numerous - as can the causes as our body is so complex with many, many connected systems so that when one starts to malfunction, it affects all the other systems.

The question if I were in your shoes is what’s causing consistent high adrenaline and how might I help myself through Lifestyle Medicine as few doctors have training and expertise in how to advise on how you can help yourself at least cope with the symptoms of disease.

Adrenaline production is part of a complex biological system which is like an alarm of the body and too much is produced when your body reacts to stressful conditions such as disease in the body, stressful situations in your life, excess worrying, obesity, lack of exercise, poor nutrition etc.

Your heart acts to this alarm accordingly producing salts and enzymes your heart wants to clear and sweating is one way, along with urine production, the body uses to self regulate and get rid of excess fluid and salts and enzymes - so it’s not a bad thing - but quite annoying to deal with.

Everyone, at certain times, will produce excess adrenaline - except those with Addison’s Disease (deficiency of Adrenaline) which is life threatening so better too much than too little methinks!

Hope that helps.

[Singwell]

That doesn't sound very informative but I can tell you that if your sympathetic nervous system is strongly aroused it can make you sweaty and shaky, yes. It will also raise your heart rate. You don't say why you went to hospital and what else they say?

[Lucieb01 in reply to Singwell]

I have heart failure lbbb and my heart muscle and right side and left side do not work at the same time and it struggles to pump the blood I have to have pacemaker dfib

[Buffafly]

I do have short episodes of sweating (reason unknown). Do you sweat all the time or on and off?

[Lucieb01 in reply to Buffafly]

For the past 6mths it has been constant my consultant is upping my bisoprolol from 5mg to 7.5mg so fingers crossed 🤞

[Buffafly in reply to Lucieb01]

Good luck!

[Hidden]

Hi Lucie -As usual for this forum you've already had some excellent responses so I don't have much to add, except to say that I sweat when I'm anxious. Noticing when you're anxious is a good beginning because then you can start to do things that help lower your anxiety, of which there are many.

You don't go into much detail about your situation so I'll just leave that there, but you're in the right place for good advice.

[Lucieb01]

Thank you all 👍😀

[secondtry]

To state the obvious, sweating, raised cortisol and anxiety are closely linked. I have had these for sometime and am working slowly to reduce them. I now sweat less in work/social situations but still can get cold sweats at something as simple as working on an important letter on the computer.

I try and make better lifestyle choices to combat this eg today postponed meeting up with family because of the potential of a nightmare on the London orbital M25 motorway; pre-AF we would have risked it.

[Suesouth]

Yes I get this, especially in the morning!

[JOY2THEWORLD49]

HiMy excessive sweating was thyroid cancer causing heart rate high. Which caused AF. The blood is not getting around the body normally. In September out of blue I had a Embollic Strokeand that is why we need anto-coangulant. If the irrugular forms a clot which can travel. Mine ended up in the left frontal lobe.

After 2 years 3 months I was encouraged to see a private interested specialist.

Heart Rate was 185 on Metroprolol.

H/R was 156 on Bisoprolol.

Then the DHB left me uncontrolled

On CCB dropped to 51.

Now on Diltiazem 120mg am and Bisoprolol separated at night.

It was the CCB which took away 101 heart beats so we tweaked it by lessening the dose from 180mg to 120mg. Balancing....

The night h/rate has always stayed at 47.

Problem surgeons wont operate if your heart rate is over 100.

I had an operation for TVT kit out which removed the ragged Johnson & Johnson mesh.

My heart rate when they tested it in February was 93. The operation was early March. All that inflamation disappears and my energy flowed back.

It has gone lower between 77-88 with BP 123/72

Your heart is in stress and that is why you sweat. It comes from problems with the thyroid which affects the heart. Geta scan. A Carotid scan showed a shadow on my thyroid. 4 mthe later it was removed along with 12 lymph nodes.

I was lucky as it was caught in time.

cheri JOYE

[Lucieb01 in reply to JOY2THEWORLD49]

I had an op 1982 that removed large part of my thyroid now I am under active thyroid

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[Ppiman]

I get a faster heartbeat very easily since my ablation and seem to sweat much more readily. I didn't mention the sweating, but the specialist I saw wasn't worried by the increased rate and told me to push on as my heart was in other ways fine. When the heart doesn't pump enough oxygen around, I think it can easily adrenaline to make it beat faster and work better. One result of this is an increase in sweating.

Steve

[AussieHeart]

I can wake up up in the dead of night feeling overheated with wet patches in arm and leg creases. If I eat a certain brand of tasty cheese I experience all over body heat. Some chocolate will do it but often all foods cause heat issues for me! The one that confuses is the sudden onset of hot spots on my legs. I feel like I’m being leg ironed as in branding cattle!!! I’m been advised to have an ablation but unsure why as thought Flecainide/Bisoprosolol combo was easing my heart rate/rhythm issues but now they are looking into length of pauses! Little by way of explaining what, why and when is available in 15 min consultations. Just in six weeks we can get you in! Good luck… it’s a mystery journey we are on it seems to me.