Hi Sally
Sorry to hear you had a hot flush.
They are awful aren't they.
I used to get them when I was anxious.
Only ever in the top half of my body. My legs and between my legs felt perfectly ok, but it was as if there was a switched on heating element where my heart is, and it would make my hair soaking wet, plus my bra and my neck.
They used to wake me up early every morning.
I remember sleeping by a fan, all times of the year, except for the dead of winter.
The fan was nice in the summer, but it made me cold when the summer went, yet I still needed it to save me soaking my pyjamas and bedding.
HRT stopped it for me. I was despondent, as the tablets, plus lower dose evorel didn't work, but once my gp upped my evorel, it was bye bye to hot flushes.
I suffered them for over five years, and one year stuck on femoston which didn't work, as I dreaded going back to the doctor, as she, although normally nice, got pretty brusque and terse when the subject of hrt came up.
That problem was solved by getting a gp who was on board with me.
Are you on HRT?