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[Joyce]

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!

[honeybun]

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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[Joyce]

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.

[honeybun]

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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[Rowan]

I smooth Freeze Gel on my feet before getting into bed and then let the fan blow on them, really cools you down.

[Joyce]

I will try something like that then. Fingers crossed.

[honeybun]

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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[Limpy]

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.

[Clovie]

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!!!!

[littleminnie]

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.

[lesley998]

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!!

[Meg]

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

[Witches Cat]

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".

[Taz2]

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!

Taz x

[lily]

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.