Hot flashes?????

berts4
on 9/5/12 6:32 am - Rock City, IL
Okay!!!!  I can't take this any more!  I am sitting here literally POURING sweat.  It happens 4-5-6-7 times a day.  Is this what HOT FLASHES are?  If so.......are there any remedies, preferably natural, not hormonal?

 

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Dawn
253/223/167/127
HW/SW/CW/GW
 

crystal M.
on 9/5/12 3:08 pm - Joliet, IL
I haven't tried any of these but here's what I read on Livestrong...I love that website.
  
http://www.livestrong.com/article/93732-natural-hot-flash-re medies/
birder I.
on 9/5/12 3:37 pm - Rockford, IL

Dawn, welcome to menopause!

Connie

 

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Nancy G.
on 9/5/12 5:15 pm - La Salle, IL
 Dawn

You have my sympathies.  I know that some people get relief from soy products or black cohash.  Try to avoid the hormone replacement gig.  That is what gave me my blood clots on the lungs.  The good news is that winter is coming and outdoors is a wonderful place to cool off.  I hated this time of life!  Good luck, hang in there.  You are in my thoughts.  

    Cat Lady

Lisa Tucker
on 9/5/12 7:17 pm - Streator, IL
Revision on 04/19/13
 I will agree with Connie, but remember, there are good things coming too. 

LISA
Nancy G.
on 9/6/12 5:24 am - La Salle, IL
Dawn,

I would like to add a HUGE positive.  Once you are through menopause you never have to put up with a period again.  I cannot begin to tell you how wonderful that is!  I have no desire to go back! 

    Cat Lady

berts4
on 9/6/12 6:56 am - Rock City, IL
I had a hysterectomy a few years ago but he left the ovaries so that I could still "enjoy" menopause........

Thanks to all!

 

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Dawn
253/223/167/127
HW/SW/CW/GW
 

Phatchick
on 9/6/12 1:42 pm, edited 9/5/12 6:44 pm - Brookfield, IL
VSG on 04/16/12
I love LIVESTRONG too.

Stress and coffee exacerbate my hot flashes. If I am stressed I get a ton of them. So I try to exercise daily to control the stress and I also drink chamomile tea. I also eat a bit of dark unsweetened chocolate. It soothes me.

I have also heard Black Cohosh works.

Now for the main reason I no longer have hot flashes......I decided a few years ago that i simply could not walk into church or into a meeting in the middle of winter with sopping wet hair from a hot flash. I was so embarrassed when someone gave me a hug at church and I was drenched in sweat. I started on bio-identical hormones called the Wiley protocol. These are not the hormones that are made from pregnant horse urine like premarin that is prescribed by gynos.

Within 4 days of using the cream I was hot flash free. I also noticed a major drop in my blood pressure and stress levels. I have been on them for 3+ years and will continue until I keel over. I cannot go back to night sweats, bad sleeping and hot flashes.

http://www.thewileyprotocol.com/



  

 

    

    
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