POLL - hot flashes

[shootingstar]

I very rarely get hot flashes....so far.

And when I do, it's for 5-10 min., early morning after I am awake in bed.

[emily_in_nc]

Very rarely, so far (I'm 50 and still have periods...though they're more irregular than they used to be).

[Over50Newbie]

I find that if I exercise really hard and sweat a lot, then I don't get any night sweats that night. Talk about an incentive to keep exercising hard!

[Biciclista]

Oh how very interesting. So far, it's pretty random. Hot flashes for me are not really bad, they've been mostly amusing (which is a good thing because i've been having them for a LONG TIME)

[Sky King]

Maybe it is the added stress as well... I think I have hot flashes more from stress and perhaps not drinking enough water.
Now what I wish for is something that would make my muscles "sleeker" takes me a half an hour in the morning of walking and stretching to just lose the old lady walk, can't imagine what I would be like if I didn't ride my bike.

[OakLeaf]

Now what I wish for is something that would make my muscles "sleeker" takes me a half an hour in the morning of walking and stretching to just lose the old lady walk, can't imagine what I would be like if I didn't ride my bike.

[hijack] Spend some time with the foam roller, spiky balls, Thera-Cane and other self-myofascial-release tools. Most of the morning stiffness I get is trigger points that knot up the muscles while I'm sleeping. [/hijack]

I'm one of the ones that the more intensely and the longer I work out, the fewer hot flashes I get. I guess I shouldn't have blown off the idea of doing a fall marathon this year. So far they're always brief and mild (and I've been having them for a couple of years now, so hopefully they won't get worse) - part of that is that having sweat rolling off me is just a normal thing for me, so if it happens one or two extra times in a day it's NBD. Hot weather is a trigger for me too, but seriously, when the weather is hot I barely notice them, it's hardly any different!