Can you have Hot flashes without the heat?In the last couple of weeks I've had tingling up my spine and down my arms,lite headed,headache sometimes nausea.These symptoms are all on the Hot Flash description acept I don't feel hot or flushed but it still comes in waves and mainly in the morning.It feels like some kind of a flash? Lumz

Hey Lumz,

I've had something similar just the other morning. It woke me up 5am or so for an hour or so - it felt like I was feverish, a low humming or vibrating along the spine throughout my core, but did not perspire. I rarely have night sweats now that I am suffering from Adrenal Fatigue. The nerves along my spinal cord have been sending all manner of strange electrical impulses (pins/needles). And these sprays of burning nerves occur in my brain too.

I have read enough on this site to know that hormonal changes affect nerves and muscles and manifest in many different ways - so each of us has our own unique experience. And that this experience or collection of weird symptoms changes throughout peri. Once you cease to have one set of unpleasant symptoms you may expect others to appear.

I have had the strange burning/pins/needles and tingling of varying degrees of intensity for a year and I am not as distressed by them now that I understand the cause. They impact my ability to function normally but don't frighten me anymore. And are less intense (at the moment)!!!

Keep reading -you'll discover many women reporting the strange tingling head to toe.

Thanks 2morrow.I'm glad somebody responded.Have you ever heard of Susan Weed"s book "Menopause metamorphosis" it talks about energies shifting during meno.The tingling has calmed down now and my energy is coming back.I hope I get a break for a while. Where on the west coast are you.I'm in Victoria,B.C. Hugs Lumz

I was just re-reading Power Surges info on Hot flashes. With the adrenal fatigue protocol I am on I take many of the herbs (ginseng, licorice) and supplements purported to aid in minimizing hot flashes (paba, glandulars, vit E, and so on) - which should prove to be a very good thing.

Because of the hypothyroid issues happening concurrently - I am avoiding soy products.

I have a ton of symptoms - these dry hot flashes are unpleasant but not my most troublesome symptom at this time.

Re: the spine tingling thing OMG I can't believe I have read what I have been experiencing!

Just lately, with a lot of other problems, whenever I have laid down on the settee and dozed off when I am waking up together with the normal shaking I feel like my coccyx is on fire and it spreads across my lower back then goes when I sit up!

Last week my whole back, shoulders and neck felt like this when I was watching something to do with 9/11, the falling man etc I was awash with this "crackling" and tingling.

I have had a rough time of it lately trying to explain to the doc I have had more allergies than ever and how awful I feel. It turns out I took too much vit B6 etc hence the tingling fingers and feet - feet are just coming back now but still a creeping feeling on the backs of my legs. I had a bad experience after eating almost a punnet of white grapes that had obviously got a bit mouldy without me noticing and I am sensitive to white wine or grapes/grape juice (I don't drink at all).

I also made the mistake of putting hydrocortisone cream on my face which made hot flushes even more painful and sore in the sun, I had become sun sensitive after taking Benydryl plus the vit B6 making it worse, and taking Menopace which has Vit B6 so all in all have been like a hermit for about a month.

I have been out and about today for the first time in weeks in the car, although with sun shades etc it wasn't too bad, this time last week I felt every time the sun touched my face or neck someone had held a magnifying glass up at the sun and aimed it at my skin.

I am having yet another menopause blood test............................what good they are.

How about a test for how crappy you feel and how it has made you feel like a zombie for weeks on end.

I came home crying yesterday after walking the dog after a woman with her EIGHT large dogs went past and they were all surrounding my smaller one so I shouted at her, came home crying, tried to calom down -======neck and face red and stinging, went to the doc's then while telling her how I have been doing I turned into the red dial on a thermometer so face is painful today from that flush.

I wouldn't be so anxious if I wasn't so frustrated in trying to get someone to LISTEN TO ME would I?

To say I am confused is an understatement.

Now I have stopped going out as much with the dog (used to for about 2 hrs a day) because of the sun sensitivty thing I am getting all these nervy,tingly things and feel unfit again and am keeping the weight steady but getting a bit of a phobia about going out in case I get too hot or tingly.

How did your Dr know it was too much B6? Was it a test.I also heard too much B6 can cause this and not enough B12 also.So now do I take my B50's or not?Sometimes I wonder because I'll take a multi and my B's for stress but I'm sure there is B's in the multi also.I feel so tired sometimes I probably overdo it with the vitamins but I wonder how much is absorbed due to my fluctuating digestion.I never used to take any now my cupboard is full of them!

i had those before it like a cold chill up your spine and your nervous at the same time really weird then i get light headed and get chills and then have to pee alot.

Sounds more like internal tremors!

They are horrible as though I'm being shaken off the settee or bed - BUT only ever get them if I doze in the day weird.

I am trying some practical things indoors in case of allergies etc.

I am: Ditching a new rug we got which strangely enough has been around in the lounge since all this started (I know you can get various chemicals & gases from carpets etc that are given off for years) it's the only NEW thing in the room.

I am making sure I wash anything new I buy, especially clothes or bedding.

Whenever I go into a clothes shop, or any shop for that matter I can "feel" my skin bristling especially with the bright lights etc and today went into a bike shop and nearly felt sick at the smell and sensation of all the rubber and plastic around i.e. tyres, bike gear etc.

I am going to stop using the antibacterial soap I was using for the prickly heat - maybe it was getting rid of TOO much bacteria on my body hence the tingling and creeping?

I also remember now I bought a new pair of trainers the other week and my feet felt odd a few days later, the insoles are entirely rubber so obviously have chemicals in them.

I have got some different toilet rolls, recycled ones, as I know bleach & chemicals in them can start off a reaction.

I have been on decaff tea & coffee for about 16 years so am going to try organic ordinary to maybe see if I am allergic to the chamicals they actually put IN decaff to make it decaffinated.

If all else fails I am going to jump off a bridge.................................................

I'll report back soon and in the meantime am seriously thinking about making a complaint about the disinterest the doctor showed the other day - I was there as you are supposed to be to let them know about and reactions to anything - I assumed that's what is supposed to happen.

p.s. I also have sciatica for the first time in about 10 years so am going mad with all this.

Dear 'jackieboo'
So very sorry for the hard time you have experienced.
My daughter,who is 34,is very sun sensitive like you and living here in The Middle East is hardly the right place.She also gets a hot creeping up her back and is very sensitive to many materials on her skin.If it is not pure cottons she will get a rash..
Her husband gave her some very nice hand-bracelets and necklaces carved from Ivory.After ten minutes she was covered in hives.
Usually the evenings here cool down considerably after seven in the evening so that is when she takes a walk.
How can one woman handle eight dogs?No wonder you felt so bad.But do not let that stop you getting out.Try another route or get a friend to walk with you.
Also my daughter sprays her face with Evian water and it seems to be quite effective.

Try to stay calm and come back here to share
We are all on your side
Warm Wishes
Elizabeth

No jumping off bridges!
You are just a very sensitive soul!
My daughter also uses the organic stuff.
You and she should exchange experiences.

Elizabeth

Many thanks, I've often wondered if this has anything to do with my having whooping cough, constant bronchitis and pneumonia once as a small child, and sinus problems.

Or it's just the luck of the draw!

Re the back thing, there are excercises you can do to release and lessen the spine and leg tingling, if you google "piriformis muscle" you can watch someone on you tube doing the excercises, it really lessens it and the secret is to keep moving and SIT properly!

It's interesting you mention smells.I feel sick if I smell perfume.My son uses some spray on his hair and I feel sick when I go near his room!