Also it tends all get worse the more stressed you get about it. When I speak to some of my colleagues everyone is getting something, and we forget that it is a natural process. My boss is 50 in July, and I notice she has started getting flustered and getting hot. I forget stuff a lot, like I put something in the fridge that shouldn't gone in microwave etc! I've allways been absent minded. I had a hot restless night again. Asleep at 12.30, awake at 2.30 and then again around 4 or 6. However, I don't feel bad this am. My hot flushes are just enough to wake me up, but I tend to go back to sleep. My GP said his wife, who didn't opt for HRT, had a bad time of it for a year and a half and now hers has settled. Some people use a fan, but I think they are only useful if you are hot for any length of time, because I tend to get very chilly quickly. Some use that magicool spray. I can't get on with either of these, because if it happens in the night, the covers go off and then I wake up shivering! I tend to sweat at the back of my neck and arms mainly, and must remember to tie longish hair up at night - maybe that would help!!
Its the feeling you get with it that is sometimes very unpleasant - as if one is climbing a very steep roller coaster, but without all the fun. Then I wonder how hot I'm going to go! I practice slow deep breathing at this point!! Sometimes I would wake up with banging headache and feel like I had been to an overnight party without the fun, but thank goodness not had that for a while!!
