That's interesting to know, Pip67 - thanks for sharing it. My sister and I have had fairly opposite experiences too. It's 99% certain that we're identical, although there was a tiny bit of doubt about it when we were born. She had a really bad time until recently, with long, heavy periods for ages, while I only had this a few times before things stopped. I've been fully meno for nearly two years, but as far as I know, she's had one flush, once! I don't hold this against her, because she did have a really horrible time with bleeding that is fortunately almost a thing of the past for her now. But she simply can't identify with the huge bouquet (just to call them something nice!) of symptoms that I've had to get used to over the last couple of years and that can pretty frustrating! Mind you, maybe it's better that we don't go through this together, as sparks might fly otherwise - even though we live 400 miles apart!