Print

Please login or register.
1 Hour 1 Day 1 Week 1 Month Forever
Login with username, password and session length

[MoodyMaud]

Hi just thought I'd say hello I'm 45 and been having horrible hot flushes for about a week now periods were regular until about 2 months ago and now they are about every 6 weeks so I'm thinking have I hit the mid-life journey? Would so welcome some tips to beat these awful flushes. Also feel quite funny inside don't know really how to describe it 

Debbie x

[dazned]

Hello and 

Good to have you join us.

Do have a good read around if you haven't already. You will find there are lots of different ways and views on tackling every symptom under the sun 
The trick is finding one that suits you personally.

[Hurdity]

Hi Moodymaud

  from me too.

I put up with flushes and sweats for a while and also tried various remedies to try to control them. As my hormones went up and down my flushes came and went but eventually when my periods became very far apart they stayed for good so like many of us on here - I started HRT ( at age almost 54) and have never looked back. Now 63 and still on it....perhaps something to consider as you get further along the road to menopause.

Lifestyle measures can help some women in the meantime - stopping smoking, reducing weight, alcohol and caffeine  can all help to minimise the worst effects of flushes for a while for some women in the early stages.

Hurdity x

[CLKD]

   browse round, make notes.  Some ladies find that keeping a cycle/mood/food diary useful as when we feel well, we often forget to jot it down. 

Some GPs won't recognise perimenopause unless a lady is suffering hot flushes  even though many other symptoms can be part of The Change. 

Ask away ……..

[MoodyMaud]

Thanks for the replies