Symptoms only during menstrual period
I’m so confused and wonder if anyone has ever heard of this happening. I’ve been noticing this strange trend where every time I get my period I have what feels like autonomic nervous system issues. It starts a day before I bleed, adrenaline dumps / body anxiety attacks, phantom smells and migraine prodrome, and then once I start bleeding (not even heavy yet! Light bleeding) my heart pounds upon standing, feels like I’ll pass out if I stand up too fast, raising arms above heart level, and my head starts to pound. The last two months I get a migraine that lasts every day until three or four days after bleeding ends. I feel weak, dizzy, and really notice the heart pounding on mild exertion. None of it exists outside my cycle, I am very active with no issues with heart pounding and also mentally a lot better with the major adrenaline and panic sensations. My doc has me trying combined birth control to try to flatten the hormone drops because it seems to maybe be tied to the estrogen fall? I don’t get any visual aura with migraine btw. Does anyone get what seems like dysautonomia symptoms just around their period? My iron/ferritin should also be good. Ferritin was 69 and they just topped me off with 5 infusions to keep my levels up with heavy periods.