Hi Marie,
Yes, my SFN is idiopathic, but I'm somewhat refusing to accept that diagnosis. I'm still doing whatever test my integrated medicine doc can think of, but she's just about out of ideas.
BCP = Birth Control Pill
I was on them for about 22 years. I changed primary care physicians, and she was very vocal about wanting me off them because of family history of heart disease. I had been thinking about doing it anyway, so I stopped in October. Like I said, I started having trouble in November, and my SFN progressively got worse for the next 3 months or so.
In March I started having horrible PVCs (heart palpitations). I assumed it was anxiety from the discomfort of SFN and just worry over what was wrong. My doctor did a holter monitor test, and I had 1300 PVCs and SPVCs in 24 hours!
It was about this time I started seeing women posting about their SFN starting when they became perimenopausal. I made a quick call to my gyn and even though she was skeptical it would help, she called in a estradiol/progestin script. I started taking it right away, and while I saw no improvement at all with the SFN, those horrible PVCs stopped cold within a couple of days. That alone tells me perimenopause is causing at least of my problems.
Janie
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Originally Posted by janieg
I'm in the same boat, Marie. Am 52 and peri-menopausal. My SFN started within a month after going off the BCP last October. I'm considering just going back on them to see what happens even though no one will currently say my SFN is being caused by it. I'll see my gyn for annual exam in 10 days and will discuss it with her.
Hi Jan
Im sorry you suffer with SFN! Is yours Idiopathic too? what is BCP? None of my doctors will say my SFN is caused by menopause either. But my feet started burning around the same time I became menopausal.. It felt like all *&^% hit the fan!! Mine is Idiopathic, I am otherwise healthy!! So frustrating.
Let us know how your exam goes and what your Gyno has to say about what could be causing your SFN.
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