Hi All
I was wondering what experiences people had with their hot flushes finally ending, or easing?
I've been having them very badly for a couple of years, I go months without a period, my last one was over 4 months ago, and there was a 6 month gap before that one. My flushes all but stopped a couple of weeks ago, and now I just have warmish patches rather than the hideous flushes.
Could this finally be the end, or am I clutching at straws and am about to have another period?
Thanks!
Mandy x
It sounds like you were lucky. Some women notice nothing to comment on and others suffer for upto twenty years. The lucky ones may feel a few flushes, but it does not use up so much energy and take up so much time, of the women who are affected badly.
I wonder if the million women experiment faulty reporting has had such an influence on doctors that they will not allow their patients to take hrt for life, because now that we are older than our more natural living ancestors, we still need oestrogen for as long as we live.
My GP said I would have to come of it at 55 due to the risks identified, originallly by the million women study. Some woman called Annie Evans has done a great video on meno, and she highlited the fact that the mw study had used faulty thinking in their experiment, with figures, to show how low the risks are.
I'll use it beyond 55, because there are doctors who do allow lifetime oestrogen, in the nhs, so it's unfair that I too am not afforded that gift
I read that if you started getting flushes while you were still having monthly periods, then the flushing was more likely to last years longer.
I was getting hot flushes like spectacle steaming heat. It's like there is an electric heating element inside of where your heart should be, and this is what keeps heat radiating upwards thourgh the face.
Even though some women do not suffer menopause, oestrogen is still being produced on a much less scale and it might be that you would still benefit from oestrogen therapy.
estrogen keeps the heart healthy, and i think it prevents or lessens risk of strokes but i am not really sure.
It keeps the bones stonger and helps prevent osteoporosis, where a woman can just snap one bone rendering her no longer independent and all of the big life things that go with that.
One of the other, more knowlegeable others may come on and put me right.
Oestrogen therapy could make you feel much better and age much slower, and it may be that you will be able to do what you like doing for longer.
Women were not meant to live this old, but as modern science has advanced, we have an ageing populatoin, and I cannot help wondering, when I see women in care homes on tv that if only they had been given enough oestrogen, would they be able to care for themselves?
I know that lack of oestrogen can cause bowel problems, my IBS started when my body decided to cut down on oestrogen about six years ago.
I got horrible hot flushes. I needed a fan in bed, all year round.
I had them for five years before going to docs, as I was weaning down from some prescribed medication at the time which is supposed to have bad withdrawals, and I took the heat to be from withdrawals, as previous withdrawals always made me sweat.
I would get flushes if feeling wound up, and the flushes themselves would wind me up even more.
Hot flushes sounds like a tiriviality and I remember seeing loads of over the counter meds in boots, wondering why women felt so bad when it was supposed to be a good time, as periods were coming to an end.
It was only when a fellow forum member from a board that deals with drug withdrawals, when one woman suggested my symptoms down to menopause, as she had seen it in so many other perimenopausal women.
I went to the doc, tried femotson tablets, both doses, and no joy, and I felt too disheartened to go back, as my doctor was a bit short with me, because she could not understand why I wanted a progestin that was not synthetic, as it may lower my already low moods.
My doctor got irritated as she said utrogestan is not on her list of meds.
So, I stuck with the femoston for a year, before getting encouragement to go back, and ask for utro again, if I didn't want to try norethisterone.
I got a couple of more doctors who would not listen to dr curries email that I brought, one wouldnt give me patches due to migraine.
One doctor thought my request was complicated as I had brought dr curries email in.
Finally, I found a good doctor at the surgery, who agreed to start me on evorel 50 patches and order me utrogestan.
The 50mgc dose patch did nothing, but I felt ok in going back and asking for 75mcg patches to try for another 3mths.
These did a little bit more, but I still felt very warm, sweated sometimes, and my low mood would not lift.
I went back and asked for the 100mcg, but I was dissappointed that I had to be asking for this, I am only 49, no kids, in flushes for five years in peri without knowing, so why would I need such a strong dose, when many other woman get by on much less?
Anyway the 100mcg didnt seem to work and again, I was part wondering if I am one of those people hrt doesn't work for.
After about five weeks, however, the flushes stopped.
My mood is still low, and I do still get anxious, but I heard that anxiety and depresion may not be helped by hrt in some women, evn though they are not getting flushes anymore.
I've done three posts today, and I mentioned magnesium in them all. I was shocked to hear 80% are deficient, which can cause loads of problems and make a meno a hard journey.
Many women oner the internet,have said that their meno symptoms were helped with magnesium.
I took about 6 caps a day and my flushes did go for two weeks, but unknowingly, this wasn't enough.
Supplement pills are not a great way for magnesium to reach you generally, as the elemental magnesium on their tins is a lot less than the dose you think are getting.
Also, different magnesiums have different bioavailability.
There are also more efficient delivery methods, like oils and bathing in epsom saults, plus mouth swilling.
I just wasn't using it enough, and now that I am not bothered by hot flushes, I moved away from taking magnesium, unless I couldn't sleep.
Attacking the deficiency at both ends ensures the body gets the mag it needs. Apparently it can take 2 weeks to get back to normal, and many report how its lifted their moods and wellbein
