I guess I'm a little different with the "hot flashes". I am 46 and I'm hot most of the time! The house can be 62 when I get up and as soon as I get up, I start to get hot and sweat. Sometimes I'm just hot. I take a shower and am hot after even in the winter. I have to sit for 10 mins and cool off. Any major movement and sometimes just ANY movement sets it off. I'm sick of being so hot! People think I'm nuts when I got out and it's 35-40 out and I have no coat on. In the grocery store I just can't wait to get out into the cold air!

I also have nightsweats a couple of times a night.

Anyone else just feel like it's summer in the winter without the "flashing"?

Too busy...what is a hot flash, if it isn't what you just described???

I had that during the summer...although I honestly don't know if I was in a constant state of flashing, or if it was the heat...or both! All I know is there was no break from it....sleeping in front of the AC on full blast with little clothing on...still hot, sweating off and on....during the day...hot, always hot.

For me, at least, it did settle down after a few weeks....so hopefully it will for you too!!

Everything I read on the net and hear from a lot of women is that they get a sudden onset of heat like when you open th oven door. It's just their upper body and it comes and goes in minutes or an hour. Being that I am just hot 90% of the time, I didn't think that constituted as a "flash" of heat. I feel like I live IN the oven. I get it for weeks at a time. Then I will notice it is better for a few days here or there then it just comes right back. The worst part is my neck (have to ear my hair up as much as possible) and head. So, now that I analyze that......um.....maybe it is just one month long flash!!!!!!!! It does vary through out the day. I do get times when I am cold but not many. If I don't do much (sit for a while) I am fine. My husband is always up and ready to put more wood on the woodstove cause he is "freezing" and I'm either comfortable for hot.

Hi Toobusy,

I have gone through the identical type of flashes that you describe. However, now I am missing a period for 3 months, the heat upped it anti, and now I am getting the full on blasts of heat. It doesn't feel better, I can assure you, but I get cold chill flashes too, and I like those better, although sometimes it is hard to get warm.

Like you, activity increases my flashes, as it did my continual 'hot', but now I am forcing myself to really exercise quite hard, and they seem to hold off a bit now. Once I stop exercising, for about an hour after I am roasting in an oven. I wish I sweated, but I never have sweated properly in all my life, no matter how hot it has been, or how hot I get, so here's a hint for you. Buy a couple or more of plant spray bottles, and fill them with icy cold water, spray on your face etc, and this really does bring a nice feeling. No, it doesn't stop them, but even the temporary cooling feels like heaven.

One thing I also notice, is that no matter how hot my heat or flashes, I also only blush slightly spot on my cheeks where a flush should be.......I don't go red in the face, but I FEEL like I am on fire. It makes no sense.

Isn't this stuff fun we go through?

Viktoria