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[Fizzy]

I've been getting hot flushes/night sweats for about 3 years now and have been taking Black Cohosh 3 x 200mg tabs per day and also Menopace tablets which have been helping, they've certainly reduced in amount.  I was dreading going on holiday as we were going to Las Vegas and the temperature was over 100 every day but wonder of wonders, I didn't have one the whole time we were away!  I don't know if this was because I was less stressed or what but practically the minute we landed they started again and have come back with a vengeance and I'm back to being up and down all night and tired all the time.  I think I'll just have to go on permanent holiday!   

[flutterby]

Hi Fizzy
It would be interesting to ask if anyone's hot flushes and meno symptoms are worse or the same on holiday. Quite a few people seem to get nearly complete relief.
Just putting a case for us girls to be on permanent holiday
Flutterby

[smiler]

Hi I just started having hot flushes about 2 months ago.  After a visit to the local tablet shop and a very helpful member of staff I have started taking the Menopace and Evening Primrose Oil as well.

I work for a Bank and as I work at a computer screen all day in an office where the air conditioning is not very good to say the least, I spend all day with an electric fan on my desk.  Fan on..... Fan off..... jacket  on..... jacket off.....
Everyone I work with finds it very amusing but I must say I am not amused in the least.  I am also not sleeping very well and seem to wake up from 1:00 am onwards covers off.... covers on.... I don't know how my husband gets any sleep at all, I don't.  The worst time however is on my journey to work on the local metro, everyone is wrapped up and I am stripping off.  Also when the trains are full I sometimes have to get off as I feel Like I am going to pass out.

This is only my second day of taking the 'tablets' so I do hope they make a difference, if not I may be hoping some of you other suffers have some other suggestions. 

I will let you know how I get on....

[Ellen]

Dear Smiler,

I'd like to say    Sounds like you'll have a lot in common with the rest of the ladies enduring these symptoms and surviving this new stage of our lives.  I think the supplements will take a little while before you start to see the benefits so don't give up if you feel they aren't having an instant solution to your problems.  I take female balance which is a health supplement and so far I think they are helping me to steer clear of some of the symptoms that are troublesome at this time.   

[Taz2]

Hi Smiler -  from me too.

I hope that you get relief from the flushes with the Menopace and Evenining Primrose and as Ellen has said they may take a while to kick in. Do you get that feeling where you just can't breathe and you just want to fling your arms out wide?  I do and can't imagine being on a crowded train when I feel like that 

For me it has been by far the most uncomfortable symptom of the meno so far. As the regulars on here know I finally decided to "give in" and ask the doc for HRT. I ummed and ahhed for ages before I finally asked her to prescribe it and was turned down so went to see the other female docs in the practice. These also seem to think that as I have been having them for nearly two years I must be nearly through it and I really should just accept it as part and parcel of a women's life.    The flushes have progressed to horrible sweats and, on a bad day, they are approximately every 25 minutes and leave me wet and weepy    I sympathise with you too over your bad nights - I have solved this a bit by not going to bed till after 1 which only gives me five hours to do the "covers on - covers off " bit 

Keep posting and let us know how you get on with the Menopace and Evening Primrose. 

Love Taz x 

[botoxqueen]

Hi all

I'm new to all this too, and am struggling with the dreaded hot flushes, and my sleep is suffering badly

I used to sleep well, and now I'm in and out of the covers all night long - I wake up exhausted from all the tossing and turning!

I get hot then cold, then hot again, and soooo thirsty at night too

My aunt recommended sage extract for the hot flushes, which I am trying - the tablets smell like horse dung! and so far have made no difference whatsoever, but I will carry on, and report back in a while

I'm waiting for my order of melatonin which is a hormone suposed to help sleep, but the postal strikes have delayed the order, so will let you all know once they finally get here

[Rosebush]

Hi Botex,

I have just started sage tabs for hot sweats, my friend has been on them for 4wks, and is getting some relief, was getting them every 40mins, but the weekend the frequency was one every 2hrs

Hope they kick in for you soon, i did try the drops in water about 4yrs ago, and they helped for a while, but will post how i go on...

[jeni]

A few months ago I began to have moments in the night when I was too hot and had to throw off the covers to cool down.  Perhaps that's a night sweat?  When I read up on it, though, it certainly wasn't as bad as some women have.  During the daytime I would have fairly regular bouts of heat, around 30 seconds in length, but I found some advice on line that suggested you breathe through it when you start to feel it coming on (deeper breathing as in labour), which worked really well most of the time.  The flushes have gone though more recently.  Perhaps my hormones have stabilised for a while, but I also read it could all be over in several months?  I'm 48 and had a hysterectomy 6 years ago, still have my ovaries though.  What is your viewpoint?

[Taz2]

Hi Jeni - I'm not sure how you tell where you are on the meno journey when you dont have periods to gauge things by 

My flushes started two years ago and came and went over a few months. They disappeared completely for about 5 months and then came back with a vengeance as full blown sweats approximately every 25 minutes night and day. I have had these for a year now - glasses steam up, sweat trickles from the nape of my neck right down into my socks, drips off my chin - yuk, yuk, yuk. My last period was in March and all of the info I have read indicates that "flushes and sweats reach their peak about two years after periods have ended" Help!!

So,my viewpoint on this is that it is soooo hard to tell whether things are finished or not. My friend is still flushing many times a day and her last period was 7 years ago, one of my other friends has never had a flush in her life and hers finished 5 years ago. I met a lady in the docs who was 72 and had been flushing regularly every day for the past 20 years - no rhyme or reason to it. Sorry not to be of more help 

Love Taz x 

[jeni]

Seems pretty unfair that we have a tendency to put on weight at the same time as melting through sweats! http://

[smiler]

Hi all

Been taking the Menopace tablets for about 5 weeks now as well as taking Evening Primrose Oil and I must say the hot flushes as much better

Unfortunately I am putting on weight  I have tried and managed to stop eating so much and I eat quite a healthy diet but to no avail....... I am still struggling to get into my clothes espiecially my skirts and trousers for the uniform I still have to wear for work     This is just not fair when you have suffered every month with really bad periods, cramp and heavy bleeding, why oh why do we then get all of this.  This has really convinced me to come back as a man next time!!

Anyway I will put up with the lettuce leaf only so that I don't feel like my stomach is going to explode and hope it gets better.

Can anyone advise if taking water tablets would help?

Keep smiling everyone

Luv

Smiler x

[soo]

Cor girls, don't we suffer?  Men are soooo lucky!

I have always been a hot person, never one for feeling cold, but this past year has been dreadful.  Every morning I apply my makeup to have it melt down my fact during the day, my hair spikes and has a permanent wet look to it, and I rarely wear any shoes favouring sandals instead to help keep me cool.  Being newly promoted at work I have to attend lots of meetings and sit amongst all these cool looking, smartly dressed ladies, and there am I red faced, constantly wiping the perspiration, in thin, cotton strapless tops (whatever the weather) and sandals.  I bet they think I'm a right old hippy ha ha!  My only consolation is that one day these immaculate ladies will be suffering too!!!!!!

I strongly believe that there's not a lot we can do to stop the sweats but definitely believe worrying and stress worsens them.

[Fizzy]

O Me Miserum, a trail of sweat runs down my bum
My face is red, my pores all leak, a nice dry body is what I seek
Hot flushes plague me every day, this menopause has come to stay
I've lost my mind, my brain is weak, I forget my words when I try to speak
My hair is damp, my back is wet, how much worse can this thing get
My sex appeal has come and gone, my darling's face is quite forlorn
My sleep's disturbed, I'm up and down, hubby and me both wear a frown
It seems like I'm awake all night, it's just not fair, it's just not right
Arms and legs stretched out to air, I wait to dry and try to bear
This wretched life that now is mine, I miss those days of feeling fine
I've tried so many remedies to try to make the sweating cease
I've spent an awful lot of dosh on Isovon and Black Cohosh
Evening Primrose and Starflower too, just to see if they would do
Red Clover pills and Menopace worked for a while but I must face
The fact that nothing's adequate, I must endure this dreadful fate
In years to come I hope to see, a brighter, happier, normal me
For now, I must just soldier on, where did I put that Isovon?

Hope you like my poem - just a little taste of how I and probably most of you feel these days!   

[Ellen]

Dear Fizzy,

How true.  I recognise a few of these unfortunately.

[soo]

Such truth in your words Fizzy but I also had to laugh.  Thanks for that.