Heart racing and being able to notice your heart beating can be associated with menopause. I would check your hormone levels and replace any deficient hormones and see if the symptoms resolve. Additionally, it would be wise to see your primary care physician to have an EKG performed to make sure there are no additional issues to be dealt with but typically mild symptoms are related to menopause.

There are many hormone related symptoms that are related to menopause that we do not necessarily think of other than the hot flashes and night sweats. Other symptoms of menopause include mood changes, irritability, anxiety, insomnia, hair thinning, osteopenia or osteoporosis, weight gain, libido changes, difficulty sleeping, mood swings, etc.

Someone who is going through menopause complaining of bloating and gassiness can be due in part to hormonal imbalance. It is certainly the first thing I would check in this patient. I would want to ensure that her hormones are well balanced by replacing them with bioidentical hormone replacement. If this did not solve the problem of bloating and gassiness, I would look at the gastrointestinal system with a comprehensive digestive stool analysis and based on those results correct any problems that are occurring directly in the gastrointestinal tract.

I think with allergies getting worse we would want to look at multiple systems in the body including the hormone system. I would check your hormones, particularly if the allergies worsened around the time of menopause and replace any deficient hormones. These include estrogen, progesterone, testosterone, DHEA and cortisol. I would also look at the health of the gut or the GI system because we often have gut problems which surprisingly are linked to allergies as well. So we would want to maximize the function of the gastrointestinal system, check for any food allergies and ensure you have the appropriate gastric acidity and enzymes for digestion and no overgrowth of bad bacteria in the gut either. So there are many things we look at. We want to maximize your nutritional therapy as well and certainly there are many supplements that contain some key ingredients that can be helpful for allergic symptoms.

Incontinence does tend to occur as estrogen declines during menopause. Estrogen can help the incontinence if it is due to the estrogen deficiency and hormonal balance tends to help these types of symptoms. However, if the incontinence is due to previous surgery or other bladder issues, the BHRT may not be the complete solution.