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Hot flushes with no sweating!

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georgia91198
georgia91198

Hi guys,

You are all so wonderful.  Just joined the site and thank goodness you are all here.  I am 44 and for the last 4 months have been getting so overheated have had to walk out of restaurants or theatre.  The wierd thing is I am not sweating,  Just getting so hot in my head I feel I will pass out.  When I get out into the fresh air I am shaking and pale, feel weak and so tired I could fall asleep on my feet.

Does this sound pre or peri menopausal, whatever its called? Today I started to feel sick after eating, then the heat came and I had to really work hard, ice packs on the neck, deep breaths not to be sick or pass out.  Whats going on?  Any ideas.  Many thanks.  Georgia

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  • justlease
    justlease georgia91198

    Posted

    Yes-- that's normal (at least for me!).   My hot flashes are like yours -- I don't sweat either.  Some ladies recommend black cohosh, Maca or Menopace to help with the hot flashes.  Black cohosh did nothing for me.   I've recently started on the Maca, and I can't really tell yet if it's having an effect.  I used to have these flashes 15-20 times a day, accompanied by heart palps and terrible anxiety.  Now I'm down to maybe one a day, every other day, and I no longer have the heart palps and anxiety.   I take magnesium, B6, and B12 as well (and some other vits and minerals), and I think that's helped with keeping the heart palps and anxiety at bay. 

     

  • margaret04348
    margaret04348 georgia91198

    Posted

    Yes all sounds like me.  I also have a sensitive bladder.  I take macca and D Mannose (for bladder).  I used to take Vit B complexVit C, Multi Vit but vits not good for a bladder so laid off.  I still take evening primrose oil. The flushes however are no better but sickness and shivers have subsided.  It is a matter of trial and error with supplements but you will get lots of help here.  I try not to fight and just tell myself it will pass. I also keep busy and exercise on a regular basis but also amke sure I rest too.  Good diet, lay off the alcohol and lots of good company.  It is hard though; very hard....oh here comes a flush!!!!!LOL
    • jennifer85396
      jennifer85396 margaret04348

      Posted

      Oh thank goodness for this site!! I am 48 and every month I pray I will not get my period.  Comes late or early, lasts seven days or four days...crazy. But whats been happening lately is I wake up in the middle of the night completed drenched.  Every month is another symptom.. we will get through this!!! Vitamin B12 seems to help a little, lots of water and a clean diet helps too.
    • margaret04348
      margaret04348 jennifer85396

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      Yes I had the night sweats but they have gone.  I thought it was stress at the time as ging through a very difficult time.  They were awful and I had to get up and at the very least changemy pj's.  My peroids have not been around for 12 months now and I am in the meno but yes they were irregular.  I did not pay any attention as so much going on but I also had itchy skin and very sore breasts...again thought was stress but think it was now peri!!  Keep on with this site it has really helped me where the Docs could not...would not believe me when I told them I believed my symptoms were the meno...they still don't!!!!!  We will get there.  Take care.XXX
    • jennifer85396
      jennifer85396 margaret04348

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      Congrats Margaret for being period free for 12 months.. You are almost there.  I think it is terrible that doctors cannot relate to what we are talking about.  Especially male doctors in my opinion.  My skin had changed, and right before my period starts I get a new symptom every month.  Feel like a crazy person..lol... we have to do what is good for us and what makes us happy healthy and at peace.  God Bless!!

       

    • margaret04348
      margaret04348 jennifer85396

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      Yes I am beginning to realise I have been through a lot of it and as said as life was so difficult the symptoms were the least of my worries.  Hopefully not much longer and it will begin easing over the next couple of years......bloody hope so.!!!! I know what you mean I feel like I am going mad and even though was so stressed befor I did wonder at times what on earth my body was doing!!  I remember having terrible vertigo and nearly falling over...this again I think was peri but I also think brought on by the intense distress at the time!!  I think we know our bodies better than anyone and Docs especially males have no clue......this added to me feeling mad though.  Thank god for other ladies and this site...life saver!!XXXX
    • shaznay96184
      shaznay96184 margaret04348

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      Margaret, I like you, think quite a lot of my Peri symptoms might have been masked by all the other, terrible stressful things I was have gone through over the years.  Had lots of bereavements, and can remember the insomnia, fretting, sorta hyperventilating, palps etc. Crappy time.

      Was getting some of them around Xmas, which made me decide to do something about it. Nurse Pract'r didn't really 'push' HRT.......but did push ADs/SSRIs (think she must be sh*gging the Parmaceutical Rep!!).  No ta. The endless list of side effects were worse than anything I was feeling!

      Found this site on a particularly desperate night before Xmas:  it felt like Santa had actually read my letter and delivered!!  Love this site! 

      Also go myself a very run-of-the-mill multi vits/min supplement (Menopace Original) in a bid to ease the really aching joints/help my mood.  Well 3mths on, I feel absolutely great:  pain really eased and my mood's so much better.  Still bleeding like a teenager, regular as clockwork (not great at 54!) but these will help me stay off the HRT for as long as I physically can.

      Can't wait for my periods to start to get irregular.  I've only ever missed one in my life:  1987 when I was pregnant!  The day I miss one, and then another:  I shall put the flags out!

      Congrats Margaret for being rid of the Curse for 12 whole months.  I salute you girllol!

      Sx

      PE - Did you take HRT at all?

    • margaret04348
      margaret04348 shaznay96184

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      Hi, no I haven't taken it and feel quite blessed I kinda sailed through the peri.  Like you I have had significant bereavements over the last 6 years and the grief and stress just masked the peri.  However, 12 months free of periods is a mile stone I now realise!  I really don't want to take HRT either and take Macca and D Mannose and Rose hip supplments.  I also take meds from Doc for bladder and an oestrogen pessier.  Meds for bladder early days and think pesseir may have helped with soreness and dryness and can also help with other symptoms.  I have heard quite good things about Menopace and may try it.  Really glad it has helped you with moods and pain.  My moods are now better but were not good 3/4/years ago and my poor Mum and Dad got the brunt of that...feel really guilty as they are both in heaven now but I did not know and I was very remorseful!! Only happened a couple of times thankfully!!!  It is such a difficult time and can be very lonely and scary.  There should be support groups for us to go to; or something like that!! Hoping for your flags to come out soon.XXXX
    • margaret04348
      margaret04348

      Posted

      Sorry for some poor spelling!!!LOL

       

  • Tracky
    Tracky georgia91198

    Posted

    Hi Georgia yes I get really hot red face but no swearing too :-) I liken the feeling like I'm experiencing really bad embarrassment with such a red face but it happens anytime! and I get a sickness feeling to the pit of my stomach x
  • HotDot7
    HotDot7 georgia91198

    Posted

    Hello. Maybe Menopace can help with the flushes.  It's an all natural mix of vitamins and herbs that help with these perimenopause symptoms.  I googled it and found it very interesting to read.  May help someone.  xxoo
  • shaznay96184
    shaznay96184 georgia91198

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    Hi georgia

    I don't get 'hot flushes' in the traditional sense, but in the build-up to a period I am like a furnace inside:  my husband says 'Christ girl, you are roasting' - I used to take this as a compliment until I realised what he meantsmile!

    Seriously, I used to get a lot hotter than I seem to at the mo.  I know we're only just coming into Spring, but I can imagine myself sleeping on top of the duvet again very soon.

    Did buy a 10.5 tog duvet and managed to suffer that for 2 nights when it was particularly cold, but have resorted back to our 4.5 summer weight, think that is warm enough for us.

    For me, and I know someone else on this site has mentioned it, I think the problem lies with the fact that I have a memory foam mattress - and they are so bloody hotfrown!!  Won't be getting one of them again. All of my family err towards 'Is it hot in here or is it me?......' I look really flushed when I go to friends' houses because they will insist on having the CH on at 30 degrees!!

    I have to say that both the 'sort-of flushes and bit of heart palps' have been kept in check since I began using Menopace at the beginning of the year. Coincidence or not:  I ain't stopping taking themto see if they really are helping, or at least not without a fight!!  Get a lot of relief for my aching joints, so think they're working for me.

    Looking back, even as long ago as a few years ago when we were eating out, I was very conscious that while I was eating, I wasn't feeling hot, but my face was bright red.  People probably thought I was going nuts in the 'All You Can Eat Buffet' - or due a heart attack!!

    I truly think a lot of my early Peri symptoms got eclisped by other stressful situations I found myself in over the years building up to now (bereavements, selling Business/family home: all very stressfulcry.  or lets say I bloody hope so!

    My husband has just said I look a bit 'ruddy faced' (he's a right love!) and I know that I came in earlier, starving, and have sort of binge-eaten since I got in.  So I see what you mean about feeling a bit dicky after eating.  I suppose there's a lot to be said about eating little and often, and eating well.  I'll get all the chocolate out of the house this weekend(!) and try my best to be a bit better from next week.

    Oh well Georgia, at 54 I've got 10yrs on you.  I hate to say it love but I'm still getting periods as regular as clockwork, only ever having missed on in 1987 - when I was pregnant!  If you're lucky, your journey to full-blown Menopause won't be as long as mind. All  my sisters were well into Meno at my age:  I imagine I must have been really bad in a previous lifelol.

    Avoid spicy foods, too much caffeine, hot drinks, layer clothing, have a window open.......oh, the bloody list goes on and on........!

    Sx

    I often have to strip off in the middle of the night.  I used to blame my 'hairy mammoth' husband, but he reckons it me now! 

    • georgia91198
      georgia91198 shaznay96184

      Posted

      Hi S,  You are wonderful.  Thank you!  I am so sick of this happening and so called friends and family making jokes about the menopause.  My mum had a hysterectomy and was sweating and dripping all over the place for a few years, so I just didn't think this was it.  I am trying to come off other meds and having massive migrane headaches so wondered if they were connected but I don't think they are.

      5 months ago I tried having a mirina coil fitted to help with depression.  Headaches got so bad had to have it removed.  First couple of months back to normal then three months of bleeding.  Everything went haywire and GP told me it was nothing to do with the coil just my age!  Yeah right.  Went on pill to stop everything.  Didn't work.  Tried others, worked well.  Stopped then bleeding started again more normally.  2 months later all wierd again.  Had these wierd over heating problems for about 4 months.  This menopace sounds great.  Will give it a go.  So glad there are a few of you out there who can pass on the secreats of whats to come!  Gx

    • shaznay96184
      shaznay96184 georgia91198

      Posted

      Yeah, its your 'age' - what sort of answers that from a Doctor?

      I hope Menopace works a bit for you. I sympathise with the migraines/ headaches. Some are probably 'hormone-realated' - I've defo had a few. (A lot of us keep a record of moods/bleeding/symptoms etc for our own benefit. You might even see a pattern emerging with your headaches?)

      Used to get terrible 'sinus headaches' before I had them flushed: best thing I've ever had and one of the only things I've had done medically.

      Chin up kid - remember you're in good company here!

      Sx

  • susan21149
    susan21149 georgia91198

    Posted

    Thats what it sounds like to me. I have gotten tired weak hot and had a lot of anxieties with mine and stomach problems too. 

    There are times where I felt shaky to where I felt like I was going to pass out 

    But it does get better

    • shaznay96184
      shaznay96184 susan21149

      Posted

      susan, there's lots of TV progs/media talk about sugar and all its ills.  I get a little shaky just before coming on, and can have a sort of sugar craving, but the thought of Type 2 Diabetes keeps me away from it as much as possible.

      Eating 'Little and Often' tends to be thrown at us on a regular basis, but I suppose it makes a lot of sense to balance our blood sugars at certain times of the month

      Sx

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