Hello ladies, I’m a long time member but haven’t posted for a long time now. Mainly because everything was going good guns!
However, maybe 2 and a half years back back my original HRT Prempak C (back then I was still using sequential) was discontinued, and my doc said actually it was probs my time I moved to non-sequential anyway as I was by then around 56.
He put me on Femiston 2/10 and all went fine for about the next year and a half it was all still going pretty good. My only reason for ever being on HRT was hot flushes and night sweats anyway, I’ve never suffered from any other menopausal symptom so I’ve always counted myself very lucky and sympathised with those with much more severe and varied symptoms.
Anyway to get to the point, in March this year I started having periods again every 2 to 3 weeks for no apparent reason, and the flushes and sweats came back with a vengeance!
I have private medical insurance and very quickly got ultrasound and internal scans as well as a smear test that had become overdue because of covid. And everything that was has shown to be all clear. Nothing remotely unusual to report according to my consultant.
So back to my GP as consultant suggested it was likely hormonal. He changed my HRT to Indivina (orally just like all my previous ones) and the flushes and night sweats got worse (tho the bleeding mostly stopped except for occasionally).
The flushes and sweats tho… wow… twice as bad as I’d ever experienced since I first had them many years ago (my reason for being on Prempak C). They’ve suddenly been truly vicious since March.
So to another change as advised by GP and I’ve been on Everel CONTI patches for 3 months. But it’s not really alleviating this damnable overheating issue 🥵
Only thing that’s changed is that at night, instead of mostly being literally dripping in sweat half the time I’m in bed - and I mean dripping so that if I put my hand between my breasts or on my belly it would come away as wet as running it under a tap - it’s now mostly radiation type roasting alive, but a dry heat. And daytime which used to be dry hot is now hot but very clammy.
In other words it’s sort of switched?!
I would like to know at this point, is there a medical difference between dry hot burning flushes and wet hot sweating?
Are there other reasons besides hormonal imbalance that cause these things?
Why would the dry radiating hot, and the sweaty sticky hot symptoms have switched (day to night and vice versa)?
And why the sudden re-onset?
If you’ve got this far, thank you soooo much just for sticking with my post and reading to the end!