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What is this strange surging feeling I have inside my body?

I frequently have this surging feeling course through my body. It mostly feels that it comes from my stomach area and moves upward, sometimes I feel it in my legs also. It happens when I'm sleeping too. I have tryed cutting back on caffaine, but it doesn't seem to change anything. It comes and goes and I can't relate it to anything specific. I have just started menopause and it has started since then. I wake up at night with the surge and it is usually followed by being very warm, but I do not feel flushed. During the day it just radiates off and on. It can be very intense or just a low almost electric feeling. Any Ideas>
Thank you,
Stacy
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I believe what you're describing is an adrenal surge, one of the symptoms that happens at perimenopause due to hormonal fluctuations. It's a panicky feeling that's not caused by any outside stressors. I have it too and I hate it :(
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Oh my gosh!  I'm looking that up as I think I have it too!!!  Ugh,  thanks for pointing that out!
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If you have pressure in your chest that radiates, along with the feeling that your heart is "beating extra hard," you should proceed to the ER out of an abundance of caution.
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I don't know what it is, but I have it too. I usually notice it most when I'm first waking up from sleep. It starts in my chest and works upwards. Feels like pressure in my chest and like my body is being suffused with... something. It goes through my arms -- makes them tingle a bit -- sometimes makes my legs tingle a bit too. Definitely feels like it fills my whole head and face. It feels like my heart beats extra hard while this is happening. But I'm not hot. I have hot flashes too sometimes, so these feel like two separate things. It's really been scaring me because I know some tumors (endocrine tumors) produce hormones. My brother had lung cancer and the way they found out was hormone surges were coming from the tumor and making his heart rate speed up.
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