I assume I just had a hot flash. I was sitting in my office, talking on the phone, and all of a sudden I felt kind of a swish, my chest got hot and red and splotchy and I felt light headed. Right now my chest still feels kind of hot and I feel like my head is swimming. This probably makes NO sense but does this sound like a hot flash? I am so confused. Not sure if this is a hot flash or a drop in blood sugar. This strangely enough happens frequently when I am on the phone and have the phone tucked between my shoulder and ear.

I was going to exercise this evening but I am a little afraid to get going on the cross trainer with my head feeling this way. I am soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo sick of this. Anyone have any thoughts?

Yep i think it was a hot flash i get those once in a great while and i get hot and my face turns blotchy. I get dizzy and off balance and weak . Then the anxiety kicks in. I wish you luck lizardlover

My biggest problem is I am not sure if this is a hot flash or something else. Seems like if it was a drop in blood sugar that I would feel shaky too. I do not feel shaky. If I could just feel comfortable that when this happens it is in fact a hot flash then I could probably just breathe my way through it. I am not convinced that it is in fact a hot flash though. The old health anxiety rears its ugly head again

Well ladies, I started this thread back in August and the same darn thing happened today. I was talking on the phone, having a nice conversation, and all of a sudden I got this rush of warmth mostly in my chest area. My brain felt kind of foggy for a few seconds and myt right ear started to ring...again for a few seconds. After about a minute everything appeared fine. After I got off the phone I went to look in the mirror and I noticed that my chest was all red and splotchy.

This does not happen often, but it frequently happens at the same time...when I am talking on the phone. Really weird. For what it is worth, I finally started my period today after spotting for about four days.

I think this is a hot flash...what do you ladies think?

Shakin'

I think I have hot flashes without the "hot." It's like "something" is rising up out of my chest, up my throat, to the top of my head. I don't get lightheaded, but I feel like I'm going to faint - does that make sense? It only lasts a second or two. I hate them. The first time it happened, IT SCARED ME TO DEATH. They are very infrequent - like yours. I may have 2 a week and then none for months. I still don't know if these are hot flashes (like I said I don't get hot), but after reading this board, I've determined it's hormonal. I haven't keeled over yet from one even though every time they happen I get frightened. I can't remember the last time I had one (cross my fingers).

good grief, if you got hot flashes like i do, you would not have to ask!! still, we are all different i guess..

Mine have come back with a vengeance. I am post, I suppose three years, with a tiny blip after two, but I was going on holiday for the first time for many years and think that triggered it. I started with the full boobs feeling first, then started with the flashing, feeling a bit nauseous first.

I get really hot from the top of my hips up to the top of my headand from my ankles to my toes. The bit in between, as usual, gets missed out (the only feelings it has had for a while was vaginal itch )

My body just burns, sometimes a bit of sweat on my forehead, sometimes a river down my back. If I feel my skin there seems to be no change at all...spooky!

Alice...

I laughed about the 'vaginal itch' bit.....how funny!

My daytime ones have disappeared, but those ammoying night time ones come and go depending on my sleep!

Caz

You know, it sounds just peachy to have hot flashes like mine, and I guess I should be thankful they are not drenching sweats, but the fact of the matter is you KNOW yours are hot flashes. I on the other hand, don't know if mine are hot flashes, low blood sugar, anxiety or a combination of all of those things.

I will be careful what I wish for here, but I only ask the question because I am baffled as to whether I am having hot flashes or not. That would clearly mean I am starting meno and frankly I cannot wait to start it and get it over with!

Well after suffering hot flashes for months, I have gone down with a virus and I was shivering all last night with cold,
I prayed for a Hot Flush
Nothing is ever right is it

Hey Shaking,

I agree...I really can't understand my hot spells...can't call them sweats as I don't sweat....I wake suddenly in the night and then get 'hot', throw off the covers, get cool, then pull them back over, then the cycle starts again and carries on throughout the rest of the night leaving me feeling so tired in the morning (when I actually feel better to go to sleep, I have to damn well get up to get my daughter off to school!)....

Low blood sugar...mmmm, could be a problem, but I try eating a high protein snack b4 bedtime. Mine is maybe the adrenals and high nightime cortisol...?????

Still trying to figure it all out.

Caz

Hi Houston, I am San Antonio!

Sounds like a bizarre hot flash to me. Starting at 41, I felt the most bizaar, wierd, scary, freaky, swishes that I have never felt in my life! OMGosh! I thought I was dying! But!!! I am still here! Alive and well

One of the worst for us Texans is the hot summers. My hot flashes get worse then. I want the A/C lower but the price!!! We get extra fans, ceiling fans, I use cool down cotton blankets.