Thanks for your reply Taz. I had noticed before I'd started on the red clover that the hot flushes seemed to run on a cycle. They would get increasingly worse over several months and then suddenly lessen for a few weeks until they started building in intensity again. That's been going on for about four years. I sort of feel that this recent episode was like a period as I had also had breast tenderness for a couple of weeks before...something which I haven't suffered from for about 3 years.
I just think it's weird that after two years of nothing that I suddenly get one..although, since reading some of the posts on here, I don't think its that uncommon.
The thing that's really bothering me, both in terms of worry and physical pain is the really uncomfortable cramping, heavy, dragging pain that I'm still getting in my pelvic region 2 days after the bleeding has stopped.