Hot Flush or What???

Thank you Liz,

I was wondering what the heck it was. A few nights I woke up with my feet on fire. I cracked my window and let my feet hang out from under the covers. These sensations are something else.

Thanks,

I will look into the sage tablets. It's just such a weird sensation. I thought I was crazy.

It certainly is uuugghh!! I was standing in the dining room talking and all of sudden I got hot all over, it was so weird. It has happened quite a few times. I thought something was wrong with me. My body really goes through it when it time for my menses. These days leading up to it are horrible.

Happy for Elaine, it's been 8 years!!  I still get them and can't wait to see them go!!

hated the night sweats when i had them, and i was glad to see them go, they interupt your sleep, and that will make the fatigue worse.

i finished my periods in my eight year, so fingers crossed for you Jo you could be coming to the end.

I tell you I won't be mad when mines go.

Oh Elaine! I will sing from the highest mountains if that happens!! I loved every part of being a woman from puberty, periods, birthing, et al. Thought I would embrace menopause but we've been in an ugly battle ever since. Just can't make peace with her. I sometimes can't do the simplest things like walk into a Bakery without feeling like a drunk soldier who's going to fall on my face. And it makes my anxiety go thru the roof. Wearing armor everyday is toooooo heavy.

let us know Jo when stop and how you feel after a year of stopping, its  gotta come after 8 years............will lilsten out for you singing then, i know what it should be...............Julie Andrews.............climb every mountain.................ha

I have had night sweats for the past three years especially during the time of my menses. I also get a body odor that I only had when I was pregnant. I've started to notice it when my menses is on. This peri stuff is hard.

I sometimes I feel like I'm pregnant all over again!  I guess this time around we are giving birth to ourselves.  

Hi jamie

It is hard stuff your very right..........once your post, your main symptoms should go very mild, but you will be left with hot flushes, that carries on for a further five years, but some unlucky people still carry on with everything for longer, and if that was me, and whilst im not allowed it, with their being cancer in the immediate family, i would certainly seriously consider getting HRT from somewhere, you cant stay in  peri symptoms for life, that would be so unfair to people, and for drs to expect women to carry on like that as well, totally wrong. 

It just makes me mad that docs find it so hard to diagnose. When I was telling my GP how I was feeling, including having a anxiety attack there in his office, he asked was i still having a menses and that I needed to relax. I left there feeling like I wasted my time going.

He kept saying you're so young and I was thinking so what! I will be in search of a new GP. He just really made me mad.