I'm new here and just looking for support and advise on how some of you may have or still are dealing with this issue. No-one I know personally has hot flashes and sweats 24 hrs. a day. Really what I have are the sweats 24 hrs a day - one approx every 30-45 min. It usually starts at my chest & back and works up to my head & neck. Sometimes even my legs! Is this normal? I have been holding off on seeing my physician for therapy for about a year now thinking I could live thru it, but it's just getting worse. I'm 52 and work at a job that I love, but this is making it difficult to get thru the day. I've heard of Prempro and have read up on it but if anyone has any personal experience with this drug I'd love to hear from you. Thanks for listening.

I've just lived through 3 weeks of these - approximately 2 -3 per hour around the clock. You can see my full story in the Yes I AM losing my mind post in the Am I losing my mind area.

I was a biology major in college and so I decided to try OTC progesterone cream to break the cycle of them, figuring that if the flashes were caused by my body trying to get my tired ovaries to ovulate I could maybe stop them by adding progesterone to the system to fake an ovulation.

It worked - the hot flashes stopped within a few hours of applying the cream- but 2 days of use of it sent me into a crashing depression.

I'm now in the process of begging my jacka$$ GPs office to give me HRT, as I can't stand the lack of sleep and feeling like I want to die anymore.

Sorry, I don't know anything about Prempro other than it's a combo of Premarin (conjugated estrogen from horse urine) and Provera (a synthetic progesterone called a progestin). There is speculation that the hormones like these may cause more problems than the biologically identical ones.

I've told my GP that I don't want the horse urine stuff, I want hormones that are the same as what I used to produce on my own. Estrace and Prometrium are what I've asked for, don't know if I'll get it.

Good luck, I feel for you - I know how bad these s*ck.
LQ

Hey Ladies!

I have been through that before as well, when it is just hot hot hot.....I really suffered during the summer, I couldn't tell if it was the heat of summer or hot flashes, it was awful. Even sitting in front of an AC unit, the flashes would still come!

I decided because of my symptoms, the flashes themselves being the least of my worries!, that I would use hormone replacement. My doctor also wanted to give me Prempro, to which I flat out refused. I went in there knowing what I wanted to take, Estrogel and Prometrium. She did give them to me. I noticed an immediate let up in the flashes, and now after being on it for a month I don't have any. I occasionally get too warm late in the evening which feels like a hot flash trying to come, but it never quite makes it. I am taking half the dose which is recommended, and for the time being I am content on it...I will increase it, however, if symptoms return.

I would not allow any doctor to tell me I had no choice but to take Prempro. These are our bodies and we are allowed and have every right to chose what kind of hormones we want to take. And really, why would you want to take some synthetic "sort of" the same horse hormone, when we have available to us, bio-identical hormones?? It me it makes perfect sense to use something the closest to our own as possible. Studies done in Europe show the bio-identicals do NOT cause the side effects that Prempro does. The American Big Drug Companies keep that information from us, in order to promote their patented medications.