Hot flashes!?

[Crankin]

I started having hot flashes at around age 49, but I had been in peri meno. since my early forties. I would go 8-9 months without a period and then have one on and off for years. I have been in menopause for five years, started really having the flashes after the first year of no periods. Black Cohash did nothing. I just kept a water bottle nearby and took a long drink. I find if I am in a warm room, it brings one on. I don't have too many now, but have one every morning when I wake up. I don't know, I just dealt with it.

[annie]

I started having hot flashes at around age 49, but I had been in peri meno. since my early forties. I would go 8-9 months without a period and then have one on and off for years. I have been in menopause for five years, started really having the flashes after the first year of no periods. Black Cohash did nothing. I just kept a water bottle nearby and took a long drink. I find if I am in a warm room, it brings one on. I don't have too many now, but have one every morning when I wake up. I don't know, I just dealt with it.

Thanks, Robin. That's about where I feel I am now. I know we're all different, but it helps to hear from someone who's gone through a similar experience.

Annie

[surgtech1956]

annie - your story sounds familar. I started around 47, I'm now 51. I didn't have a period for a few months, then I had 2 in one month, then they just stopped. After this I had some hot flashes they weren't that bad. THEN I started the real hot flashes and the night sweats - not sleeping well. I didn't want HRT, I tried some of the herbal - over the counter stuff --- nothing really worked for me. About a year ago I started sleeping again and no more night sweats. And the hot flashes are just little warm surges. One thing I did do is reduce my caffeine - especially coffee intake and this really helped with the hot flashes. After all this, now comes the dryness. I still trying to adapt.

[mimitabby]

I'm 55 and have been having hot flashes for at least 10 years.

They're not as bad as menstruation, cramps, and mess.

It used to strike me as kinda funny; now it's just part of what I am.