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[SallyG]

I woke up this morning and had a hot flush for the first time I can remember in a long time. I nearly fainted, it felt SO WEIRD. I was hot and then ice cold and felt like I was going to black out. I had to lie down for 30 mins to centre myself. Due into work this morning although I feel awful. Am on my phased return so don't want to take time off after being off for 5 months. (To be honest considering how I was, I recovered pretty damn quickly.) What do people do to recover from these things. Its the weirdest feeling.It feels like terror but I know its a physical symptom. I have to keep telling myself that to remind myself.
I have to say I stopped taking red clover because my specialist is sceptical about natural remedies and the menopause but I am going to start taking it again.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Sally

[dogdoc]

Hi Sally. Sorry about your crappy new symptom. I have found that panic attacks and hot flashes OFTEN feel remarkably similar. Hot flashes are new for me too and I'm hoping it means I'm nearer the end of this crap than the beginning. 

Hot flashes can trigger or are associated with all kinds of fun stuff.  For me it's a 'wobble' or a feeling that my body is thrumming. Internal heat like a furnace. Increased heart rate and jumping / skipping heart , anxiety, negative thinking and sometimes dizziness/ lightheaded/ weak feeling. Sometimes nausea.

I'm on an ssri which may 'damp them down' somewhat. People swear by starflower oil, primrose oil and vitamin e. I think estrogen likely stops them best. But it's trial and error.
Whenever possible I try to 'think' myself through them. 

[Dandelion]

Hi Sally

Sorry to hear you had a hot flush.
They are awful aren't they.
I used to get them when I was anxious.
Only ever in the top half of my body. My legs and between my legs felt perfectly ok, but it was as if there was a switched on heating element where my heart is, and it would make my hair soaking wet, plus my bra and my neck.
They used to wake me up early every morning.
I remember sleeping by a fan, all times of the year, except for the dead of winter.
The fan was nice in the summer, but it made me cold when the summer went, yet I still needed it to save me soaking my pyjamas and bedding.
HRT stopped it for me. I was despondent, as the tablets, plus lower dose evorel didn't work, but once my gp upped my evorel, it was bye bye to hot flushes.
I suffered them for over five years, and one year stuck on femoston which didn't work, as I dreaded going back to the doctor, as she, although normally nice, got pretty brusque and terse when the subject of hrt came up.
That problem was solved by getting a gp who was on board with me.
Are you on HRT?

[SallyG]

Thanks for responding. Yes I am on HRT. Am on Estrodil capsule taken at night and Gel to rub in at night. I also take a low dose of AD and Red clover and a multi fit called meno pace. When I stop the red clover I get the most awful flushes. This morning I blacked out and throughout I was going to pass out. I literally was soaked on the upper body and had a temperature. I later seemed to have viral symptoms i.e. headaches, weak limbs, sore throat and exhausted. But I know its hormonal. I just have that feeling like when I had my period. Fuzziness and bloated and sore. I have been back at work for 3 weeks and then this.

Many thanks again for responding.

Sally G

[CLKD]

How awful.  Do you drive 

[SallyG]

I didn't go into work because I didn't feel safe to drive. This is where I find it so hard. How we are supposed to carry on when we actually feel really 'ill'. As it was I was too unwell to go in anyway. I had viral symptoms on top of a flush and the usual anxiety with that. But this was a very deep one if that makes sense? I just cannot get over the fact that my life/career/job is so affected by hormone depletion. It sounds so logical when you write it doesn't it?

Sallyx

[libra62]

Hi sally

That really sounds like a virus to me. Maybe talk to your doc
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[CLKD]

Hormones can mimic lots of conditions  ……. sorting out the wood from the trees gets to be hard work 

[SallyG]

Yes absolutely. The story of my life over the last goodness knows how long. So crazy we don't know at the time and that then makes us worse and the go down further. Crazy absolutely crazy. This last five months have been the worst. Hope I am learning from it. I certainly feel more compassion towards other people in general and want to get along with people instead of being in conflict. 
Hug
Sally G