just wondered how many here are like me, menopausal, and having hot flashes, also wondered how you choose to deal with them.
I am drinking a large glass of organic soya milk every day and it really is helping. (theorganic one in my supermarket has the highest soya content)
anna
Hi Anna,
I have bad hot flashes and take a soy isoflavone supplement that has helped a lot. I can't do the ERT with breast cancer in my family.
Take care
I am menopausal since my hysterectomy 18 months ago. No hot flashes yet.Hi Anna,
I'm menopausal too and have bad hot flashes. Especially in the summer. I can't take anything, not even supplements, because of a high breast cancer risk in my family. I keep the air conditioning cranked up all the time, and if I'm sitting in one place for any length of time then I put a fan in front of me also. A girlfriend suggested holding small ice packs on the temples for a few minutes. She read it on the internet somewhere. Sometimes I just stand in front of the freezer with the door open. Only when my husband isn't home, of course. Naturally, he thinks I'm over-exaggerting. I've tried to explain feeling like a furnace burning from the inside out, but he doesn't get it.
I've been having hot flashes for a couple years now and was on ERT for about a year and they really helped, but when I had a heart attack I was taken off them pronto. Now I'm just pretty much miserable and my hubby says you could "hang meat" any time of the year in our house.lol...He turns the electric blanket on his side of the bed to get warm when he goes to bed and it's in the 90's here. My A/C is on 68 to 70. Sorry global warming but I'm leaving my footprints all over the place. I have to have relief or I think I will melt...
I've heard "black kohash" (sp) from the health food stores help but I've not tried it. Oh, I'm 53 yrs old
Anna,
I was sent straight thru menopause when I had chemo associated with the stem cell transplant.
I can tell you Flax Seed Oil Capsules stop hot flashes. When I told the Rhuematogist he said I was the 3rd person to tell him that so he believed it.
If you have breast cancer in family check with doctor before using it.
I have had great success with it.
LuAnn
I am on HRT and it has been wonderful as far as helping me with all menopausal symptoms. I take the low dose and so far, so good.I went through menopause several years ago, but it seems like it lasted forever, especially when perimenopause causes some of the same symptoms in some people.
I had a hysterectomy at 30, but they left my ovaries, so I didn't think I'd know when it hit. Boy, was I wrong!
Miles2go, I, too stood in front of the open freezer. A LOT! Cool showers in the middle of the night, when I woke up in a pool of "glow." (anyone else ever heard that? my Grandma said, horses sweat, men perspire and women "glow")
Anyway, both "miles" and LuAnn mentioned supplements. No one ever told me that could be bad if you have a strong family history of breast cancer. My Grandmother, Mother and 3 maternal aunts all had it. And my PCP told me, during the worst of the menopause symptoms, that I should take Flaxseed Oil and Soy Isoflavons. I still take them every day. Guess I should research that.
I'm beginning to wonder if the hot flashes ever stop. This seems different, though. But the night sweats are awful.(And un-ladylike)
Good luck, Anna. Hope you don't suffer too badly.
Hugs to all,
Nini
hi all, so flaxseed oil and soy isoflavines it is then.Anna- hi hope you are feeling better now, where do you buy your soya milk and what brand.
pin
I just toughed it out. No HRT, no special anything. Figure it's a natural part of aging (though an annoying one) and I'd live through it. And I did!
island woman
Well all righty then Anna!!! You try it and let me know what ya think!
Just read your message about black cohosh and sometime ago I read an article in the Daily Mail about liver damage linked to black cohosh. If you go to dailymail.co.uk and do a search it will bring up all the articles that was written about it.
Anne
London UK
I've just started using wild yam cream. I was taking Remifemin for about 2 years and thought it seemed to help, but after reading about black cohosh I though I might give my liver a break and try something else. Wild yam is supposed to be really good and I have a freiend who swears by it so I thought I'd give it a try.annI have hot flashes too. I couldn't use Soy since I'm allergic to it. I did some saliva testing (recommended by my Nurse Practitioner) and found out that while I was menopausal, most of my symptoms were due to the progesterone being too low.
There was a compounding pharmacy in town that made mixed up a natural progesterone cream based on the results of my saliva test. It has worked really well for me and has reduced my hot flashes significantly and I generally feel better with it as well.
Hi Anna,
I've been on Enbrel almost a year now with great results but I have to be very careful what I eat as dairy products, red meats, veg high in vit C, sugars etc all effect my condition - my Dr says I'm in remission with my medication.
Back in Feb I had a really bad UTI and was in hospital for almost a week. The doctor said it was a common female infection but I believe it was linked to the fact that I ate quite alot of wholemeal bread which has yeast in and the bread I was eating also had another mould rising agent in the bread. I found out that if you are taking Enbrel you should not have any unpasturised milk or cheese or anything that has mould in as it will cause an infection (I'm sure not a lot of people know this).
Red wine really helps, so at the weekend I usually have a little of what I shouldn't and the red wine stops any stiffness occuring.
How are you doing on Enbrel?
Anne, London UK
When my menopause began early (about 46) I was put on HRT. I was having mood swings - like a dog with a bone, and unusual for me, hot flushes and dreadful night sweats. The HRT worked it's magic for me for several years.