Three in the morning and my heart is doing that thing again. Not racing exactly, more like it keeps... skipping? Thudding? I don't even have the right word for it and that makes it worse somehow because then I'm lying there googling and we all know how that ends 😩 I'm 51, been in menopause about eight months officially, and these episodes have been happening for maybe six weeks. Always at night. Always when I've just woken up from a flush and I can't tell if the palpitations wake me or the flush does or if they're arriving together as a lovely little package from my useless hormones. I've started writing down the time when it happens because I read somewhere (possibly on here, I lurk quite a lot) that clinicians find it useful to know the pattern rather than just "it happens at night sometimes". So now I've got this sad little notebook on my bedside table. 2.47am. 3.15am. 4.02am. Three nights last week, nothing the two nights before. I've also cut back on tea after about 4pm because I wondered if caffeine was involved, though honestly I'm not sure it's making a difference yet. Too early to tell. I've got a GP appointment in ten days and I really don't want to walk in and be fobbed off with "anxiety, have you tried mindfulness". So can I ask, those of you who've pushed through with this, what tests did you actually ask for? I know there's an ECG but is that enough? Is there a monitor thing they can do at home? I want to go in knowing what to ask rather than just nodding along and leaving with nothing. Any help gratefully received x