The reason I asked about how you were feeling was because when you called them episodes it really caught my eye. I was first diagnosed in January this year with hypertension that I didn't know I even had. They did an EKG, an echocardigram, and found I had a heart murmur, left sided walls of my heart thickened but could not give me a reason for my "episodes". I described them as like an adrenaline rush that rushed from my hips, moved up my chest, then to my head. My blood pressure would go up, and also my heart rate, my legs get wobbly and weak, and I feel dizzy, sometimes it takes my breath away temporarily. They thought I was having anxiety attacks. I denied they were from anxiety. I can be just laying in bed watching TV or having a good time with my grandchildren. No exertion at all, nothing making me anxious. In Feb, diagnosed with HOCM, and in March A -fib. Im still having the episodes even though I'm now on medications for all of the above. I further pushed for more tests. They found a tumor on one of my ovaries and thought perhaps the tumor was secreting hormones into my blood stream and causing the adrenaline rushes. I had the tumor removed 18 days ago. Im still having the rushes. I was never told they could be from Afib. I know some symptoms are from HOCM, similar to those on this site but doctors think my heart is stable at this point. They sometimes last for an hour or so, sometimes 5 or 6 hours. After 4.5 months I'm exhausted from having them daily and just trying to find answers. So when you wrote, "episodes" my antennas went up and wanted to hear more and wondering what they felt like for you. Enough rambling for me. Thanks for listening. Hoping you are doing well.

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