I still have hot flashes, but my mom had them up until she died in her 80s. I find too that I'm hot most of the time; heat bothers me much more than it used to. I used to hate cold weather, but now I can wear fewer clothes - no heavy coats or sweaters - when it's cold and don't have to bundle up like I did. I did natural hormone replacement for a while, but it got too expensive as my insurance would only cover Premarin, and there's no way I wanted to take something that made horses suffer so much!

So now I just put up with the hot flashes, and the hairs on my chinny chin chin! Those hairs are awful, too, not the soft downy type I have on the rest of my face, but thick, stiff, and black - yuck!! I've also noticed that there is the occasional thick, black hair curling out of my eyebrows - where were they when I needed thicker eyebrows is what I want to know.