I had a lot of vasomotor symptoms for about 5 years before my periods started becoming irregular.
Red face here and there, people would say I was blushing, but I wasn't embarassed about anything. Just sitting down and having a rest and a cup of tea after being busy would set it off. I told the doctor and he asked if I was holding the hot tea too close to my face
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To be fair he was a lovely doctor but he didn't recognise this one.
Another doctor, a cardiologist who I went to see privately due to my heart somersaults
![Shocked :o](https://www.menopausematters.co.uk/forum/Smileys/extended/shocked.gif)
he noticed the flushing and suggested some blood checks for rare conditions. I was nervous. Then another GP said no, it's just anxiety and those tests would make me more anxious (and scaredy cat sided with him and avoided them).
Then I came here, asked the ladies here about my heart symptoms and they said it is a peri menopause symptom. I decided to talk to the GP about HRT. A young pregnant doctor came out and I thought oh no, what would she know. But I was in luck, she had trained with louise newson at some point and told me the flushing was peri menopause and put me on evorel sequi.
I am a LOT more stable on evorel sequi, plus that flushing just doesn't happen anymore. I never got hot with it though, just my face, you could have made toast on my face.