Hi! I seem to go into cycles of having hotflashes. They can last for a week or two and then disappear for a month or two. Lately, they have returned and I was wondering if anyone else experiences them at the same time of day?

It seems I get one or two in the evening after 9pm and then I get one or two in the middle of the night - usually wake up sweating like crazy. I don't seem to get them during the rest of the day. I refer them as the furnance effect. I start heating up from the inside out. I feel a prickly sensation on legs or back and my heart rate goes up a bit and then....here comes the sweat.

They aren't horrible but they are somewhat annoying. I do think it's weird that they seem to occur around the same time of day every day.

I used to get one every night when I laid down beside hubby to go to sleep.I would literally know it was coming and just throw the covers back for a minute.Then,as soon as I woke up,I would have another,then on my way home from dropping off the kids,you guessed it,another!!!It was like tradition,clockwork,whatever you want to call it.They have gone south for winter apparantly,because I haven't had one in a while.Hope yours go away as well--GODbless.

When I first started with the hot flashes I would have them like clock work in the evening, and when I would go to bed, and during the night, and when I first woke up in the morning. At their very worst they just happened ALL the time ALL day and ALL night!! But thankfully that only lasted for a couple of months!

I am now on BHRT and don't flash at all anymore...and except while it was -40 degrees here...I haven't missed them!!!

Yes! I have one every evening somewhere between 9 and 11, usually once during the night and every morning as soon as I wake up. It's nice to be able to ask you girls about it - I think if I told anyone else that my flashes are on their own specific schedule, they'd cart me off to the loony bin. But that's what it seems like alot of the time with this peri stuff ~ a wild and crazy time!

I was diagnosed perimenopausal after blood tests 2 years ago. Last year I wasn't feeling very well and finally found out I was a Type 1 diabetic at age 39! My endocrinologist (who I started seeing for the diabetes management) doesn't think I have peri - he thinks I have PCOS! I have just decided to agree to disagree with him on that subject! I did make a point of asking him how many PCOS patients suffer from hotflashes - he said none and that would be unusual. I had to laugh to myself because I already knew that - having done the research on both peri and PCOS. Anyway, it is funny how doctors are soooo reluctant to believe it's peri before a certain age!

So here I sit with my hotflashes, bloating and moodiness ~ a good doctor who can't bring himself to see peri in a 40 year old ~ and a life to live! I'll strap on my sense of humor and forge ahead ladies! Thanks for being there!

Cindy

My Dr also said mine was PCOS,I have no diabetes!I also have hot flashes.I even was told PMDD,finally I told my dr,look I know my body and she agreed,it is peri.GODbless

What is PCOS?

PCOS - polycystic ovarian syndrome - usually characterized by many missed periods, and cysts on your ovaries. There are other characteristics as well. It is one common reason for infertility problems.