Menopause Matters Forum
Menopause Discussion => All things menopause => Topic started by: Joyce on July 19, 2013, 03:18:26 PM
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Not sure if it's this heat or flushes. Yesterday was terrible. Had several flushes, I think. As some of you may know I'm now on Estradot 25 after gradually reducing from Estradot 50. Up until this heatwave I've maybe had a couple of flushes per day, which I'm not overly fussed about, I can cope. But since this heat started a couple of weeks ago, I've been getting quite a few. Fortunately, not during the night.
Do you think it's the heat just accentuating my overheating.
Just had air-con fixed in car so told hubby if he can't find me that's where I'll be, unless of course he can be persuaded to get fan out the loft!
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Think it will be the heat CG. Us Scottish lasses don't cope well in this.
I have felt much the same and I am not reducing my HRT.
It can actually make you feel quite ill. Try and stay cool and well hydrated....tea does not count.
My sister was at a funeral today and a lady in her 60s collapsed in church. Ambulance was called and they treated her in the van. They sent her home with the advice to drink more and keep cool.
I was at mum's today and felt terrible having to work in the heat.
Honeyb
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I've been drinking so much water, I'm sure it's oozing out of me. Have jug of water in the fridge & ice lollies.
Really shouldn't complain should I? But boy it's quite toasty out there and even toastier indoors.
Hope your mum drinks plenty in this heat too HB.
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I have decided I am hard to please with the weather. Warm enough for a nice tan but cool enough at night.
I was reading some interesting bits about how to get a good night's sleep in this heat. The key it would seem is cool feet. I dunked mine in the shower last night just before bed and slept really well.
Keep drinking and stay cool.
Honeyb
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I smooth Freeze Gel on my feet before getting into bed and then let the fan blow on them, really cools you down.
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I will try something like that then. Fingers crossed.
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They also suggested a damp sheet. Did not fancy that at all.
The hot weather does nothing for my appetite and I am getting sick of salads.
What do you eat when you don't want to cook or even turn the cooker on.
Honeyb
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Re what to eat on a hot day
Our local pub does a good platter of mixed olives, olive oil and balsamic vinegar and toasted ciabatta.
Works really well on a hot day.
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About wet sheets -
Just back from a week in Majorca
Now that was HOT!!!!
Our room had air-con supposedly but it was pants, blew warm air round :(
so I did actually have to sprinkle water on a sheet and drape it over me so I could sleep.
Not the most comfortable sensation I have to say but it worked. The heat was unbearable!!!!
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Cotton nighty, put it in the fridge and put it on just before bed. Wet face cloth at the side if the bed, and a fan.
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I am flushing every 20 mins, with full on beading sweat. Pointless doing hair or make up in the mornings...cup of tea and hair dryer brings it on, and soon I look like I have done 20 laps of the local swimming pool.
Bought an electric fan for a tenner in Argos - brilliant.
Also old air hostess trick...run your wrists under cold tap....cools the blood and reduces heat and resets thermostat really quickly!!
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I am sorry but I cant stand these very hot temperatures, just feel stiffled and really really uncomfortable. If you have to be out in it the afternoon is very hard to bear. I like to walk and keep busy but its so hard in this heat. This evening about eight, thank goodness, there was a bit of a breeze. I have found a huge tree in a local park and that is where I have taken refuge, underneath its spreading branches, it must be well over two hundred years old but I feel it is a friend to me in this heat. With the schools breaking up I am bracing myself for noise, (that's another thing I cant handle now)! Roll on September, I am sounding like a grouch but have noticed that the heat is making me even more irritable, maybe I'm not the only one though.
Meg
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No Meg, you're certainly not alone.... thank goodness hubby fixed the bath taps the other evening, at least I can have a cool soak now, otherwise it was an over hot shower as the water pressure's been cut back round these parts, and it won't do "cool". ::)
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This is why I love the Autumn and Winter - it is easier to get warm if you are chilly than it is to cool down if you are hot - more control somehow!
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Our bedroom gets the sun first thing, so in this hot weather I have to open the windows wide but keep the vetical blind closed and the curtains quite close together until I have dried my hair or I am soaking by the time I finish. Bliss to use the air con in car on way to work, we have a fan which we move about the house. I have trouble eating in hot weather too and can't stand the hot blast from the oven when I open it.
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I have a small insulated bag which is now 25 yrs old, was for carrying baby bottles in when my children were babies. In it I put a flannel soaked in cold water wrapped around one of those freezer blocks that you use in picnic bags. Works a treat when out and about in the unbearable heat. Does remove most of one's make up but who cares?
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Brilliant idea Milliemoo! Away to dig out my freezer blocks.
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I got a gift for my 45th birthday, it was a cool flannel, which you put in the freezer and it stayed cold for hours. It was a bit premature....but would be handy now. Can't find it anywhere. Sod's law
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You will find it in November sweet pea. Sods law indeed.
Honeyb
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