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I'd take my periods back any day rather than suffer with hot flashes multiple times almost every night and sometimes through the day. At least my periods didn't wake me up every night and only lasted a week each month, not for 10 freaking years LOL
Same here.
I was the very unusual woman among my friends who never minded periods and actually enjoyed pampering myself for those few days each month.
But it looks like hot flashes are my payback for 35 years of uneventful menstruation!
I can't say, since I went on hormones for a few years. So the hot flashes returned when I stopped.
I got some progersterone cream, though (over the counter), which seems to help that, actually.
I was using Progesta Care for about a year and thought it was helping a lot but then I ran out and got swamped and did not get around to buying it again. Five weeks passed and I realized I hadn't used it and felt no difference.
In my case I have to wonder if it was more of a placebo affect when I first began it because it did seem to really save me. I brought it in to both my internist and ob-gyn and neither seemed to have anything enlightening to share about it but they also don't want me on hormones.
Of course neither of them are post menopausal yet so in that regard they can not relate.
HRT is not the devil it was painted to be a few years ago....you may want to try small doses of estrogen (and probably progesterone to balance it out). I've also heard gabapentin (prescription) is very good.
I've heard there is some backpedaling going on because of the test subjects involved in the original study but I'm not a believer in the backlash simply because imho, regardless of any study it's not natural to continue exposing our organs to pre-menopausal estrogen levels at this age, breast tissue in particular.
But as a non meat eater I do eat soy-based foods and drink organic soymilk which serves as a plant based estrogen imitator.
One of my books about menopause pointed out that menopausal symptoms are nearly non existent in Asia, and one of the reasons being the practice of eating a lot of tofu. And they refer to it as the "Second Spring."
Much nicer terminology than the ones I give it when I'm flashing hot enough to light the grill!
The embarrassment when my face turns red as a lobster is the worst though!
I only do that when I'm checking out at the grocery store. My face begins to drip as well. And it always seems to happen when a young guy is checking me out (my groceries - you guys have a dirty mind!). So saying "hot flashes" doesn't get the sympathy an older female clerk would have for me. Say "hot flashes" to any male checkout clerk under retirement age and then there's two of us standing there with beet red faces.
I never had any. I was waiting for all the dreaded symptoms to occur, but nothing happened.
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