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[20032003]

This could potentially be a really odd question, but I'll ask it anyway...

Today I felt my stomach churn and I needed, kind of hastily, to go have a BM. Not diarreah exactly, but I needed to go FAST. Right afterwards I felt my face getting warm. I believe I'm one of those that get very mild hot flushes (face and neck will feel warm for a while - kind of feverish).

Is there possibly a connection between hot flushes and needing to use the toilet, or was this just a weird coincidence? Anyone else experienced it?

[Taz2]

It's the sudden rush of adrenaline I think. My own experiences were definitely a feeling of maybe needing to go to the loo just before a hot sweat hit. For the first couple of years it was just a little bit of warmth around neck and face and then it changed to full flushes and sweats. Sounds normal to me although I didn't always have to actually go to the loo. Once the flush started then that feeling disappeared.

Taz x

[toffeecushion]

I get the other round.  I get a flushed feeling and need to go

[honeybun]

I get them on the loo 


Honeybun
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[Joyce]

I get them on loo too. Heavens, the strange things that happen to our bodies. We should come with a warning. Danger of self combustion. 

[CLKD]

How awful.  HORMONES 

[20032003]

And I thought that I asked something really weird... Now hen you say it, I think that I've actually gotten them while on the toilet too.

[honeybun]

No such thing as a weird question here 


Honeyb
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[Kathleen]

Hello 20032003.

Yep, me too. I don't know if it is significant but I also never have really severe hot flushes, I get a sweaty back and underarms but that's all. I've never had the type of sweats that leave you dripping wet, even at night. Also when I was younger always experienced loose bowels on day two of my period so hormones definitely had an impact then. Oh the joys of being a woman!

Best wishes to you.

K.   

[honeybun]

Just a thought......How many of us had bowel problems in our younger days when having a period.

I always had the runs during a bleed, it was very unpleasant.


Honeyb
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[20032003]

Just a thought......How many of us had bowel problems in our younger days when having a period.

I always had the runs during a bleed, it was very unpleasant.


Honeyb
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I do - still. I'm 46 and still have my period, even though it's acting weird these days... I've always had stomach problems in relation to my period, to the effect that I've been pondering endometriosis.

[Greenfields]

I recall reading a book a good few years back that made a link between hormonal changes just before a period and bowel movements - and that it's normal for one's bowel movements to become looser just before a period - it's related to hormonal changes.

When I used to suffer from panic attacks in my twenties and thirties, I often found I had to run to the loo for a bowel movement either during or after the panic attack - so the link to adrenalin and its impact on bowels makes sense to me.  For a while I also experienced irritable bowel syndrome which meant that I had to go to the loo more frequently.  I was prescribed Lomotil tablets to use as needed and they did help a lot.

I don't have issues with my bowels now (aside from those arising from the HRT) and, aside from the panic attack I had in March this year, I've not had panic attacks for decades either.

[Joyce]

Oh those horrid runs, especially at beginning of a period. One poor girl I worked with used to be violently sick every month.

[20032003]

Oh those horrid runs, especially at beginning of a period. One poor girl I worked with used to be violently sick every month.

... It was BAD for me too when I was in my 20s-mid 30s. I would have cramps so bad that the only thing to do sometimes was pacing the rooms for hours. Couldn't stand being still, and moving around seemed to help a little. I would also have diarreah, stomach pains and nausea (never vomited, though).

[Joyce]

I had awful cramps too. Problem was my periods were all over the place. So I'd be in pain for weeks at a time.  Told it would be easier once I had kids. Eh, no.