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#21191 - 06/23/06 11:18 PM
anyone get hot flushes not hot flashes
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Registered: 06/23/06
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Loc: New York
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Hello, I am new here, nice to meet you all. I was wondering on the suject of hot flashes, I seem to be getting hot flushes, not flashes. They seem to hang around for awhile and I do not sweat. I had a total hysterectomy at 47 and am now 59 and have been on every hormone you could think of. For the last 6 mths. have been on bioidentical hormones from a compound pharmacy, still no luck. I seem to flush on my ears, face, thighs and legs and sometimes feel like I will go up in flames. Been to many Drs. and all tests show normal. Anyone in the same boat as me?
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#21192 - 06/24/06 02:42 AM
Re: anyone get hot flushes not hot flashes
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Registered: 03/02/06
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Loc: New Zealand
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Maria612, on this side of the world we call them hot flushes, the word flash is never mentioned. Every 'body' suffers them in different ways, I sweat whereas you don't, your body breaks out in a red flush, whereas mine doesn't. Mine last from a slight heating for a minute or so, to a total full on sweat.
I still haven't found my magic cure yet, but I too have had a total hysterectomy (6 months ago) at 51 (I'm now 52).
I think you'll find there's many in the same boat as us!!
Eeeeeek and you are in New York where is probably starting to get very hot!
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#21193 - 06/24/06 03:24 AM
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Registered: 06/23/06
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Loc: New York
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flossie, yes it has been vey hot here already and I have been staying inside freezing my family with the air conditing on. Flashes to me mean come and go in a flash but flushes last longer.
I hope you find your magic cure, I am just taking longer to find mine.
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#21194 - 06/24/06 03:25 AM
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Registered: 09/20/05
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Loc: Pagosa Springs, Colorado
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Maria 612, can't help you with info on hot flashes (don't really get them yet, I'm 46) but I do want to welcome you to the Forum. You will love it here!!
Where in NY are you? I lived there for over 44 years. Born in the Bronx, grew up in Rockland County, spent 19 years in Orange county.
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#21196 - 06/24/06 04:43 AM
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Registered: 06/23/06
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Loc: New York
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HI Bluebird and yonuh, thankyou for the welcome. It really is a great web-site. Bluebird, I am from Long Island, live here 31 yrs. and grew up in Brooklyn. Hope you are one of the lucky ones who never get hot flashes.
Yonuh, thanks for the suggestions, I don't get night sweats, lucky in that repect. I thought as you get older you get less, not so in my case.
Nice to meet you ladies, Maria
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#21197 - 06/24/06 06:24 PM
Re: anyone get hot flushes not hot flashes
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Registered: 06/12/05
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Loc: Pa.
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There is also something called a "niacin flush". It is a red,itchy,hot flush feeling when one takes more niacin that they previously had taken. It's never happened to me but I have heard of it so thought I'd post it. It is not as I understand it dangerous. (Check to see if you have upped your intake of niacin and that could be the culprit). I had a strange sensation (prior to taking my bioidentical hormones) of........like fire ants is the only way I could describe it. It was not fun and when I told the DR. and also a woman at my local health food store, she said it was also a menopausal symptom. They went away when I started the compounded hormones.
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#21198 - 06/24/06 09:03 PM
Re: anyone get hot flushes not hot flashes
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Registered: 06/23/06
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Loc: New York
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HI Val, Thanks for the post, yes, I have heard of it. I do get red, most of the times, hot and flush, never itchy.
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