Just wanted to bump this old thread back up.....been having major flashes lately which seemed abnormal to me....but after re-reading this i realize it's normal....

Moonlight - while in a BAD meno day - about 5 years ago, a very sarcastic male friend asked me
what it was like, and that it could not be that bad....it was the first time I found the words
come out "'it's like out of now where, you are wearing a black wool turtleneck Sweater/(jumper) at high noon on a beach,
in Florida in Summer!!!!!!" I smiled, but I was having a Flash that very moment at work.
His mouth dropped open, and he said, doesn't that make you feel nauseaus and sick all over and lightheaded??

I said, "Now you're getting a hint of it...."
"He said I had no idea.....you women really suffer."


MaryBeth

I had to wonder if it was a women designer,
when I found a NEW ice pack in the Store - they are like little gel filled plastic peas.
No more frozen peas!


I hope it passes for you.........they do come and go.


hugs,
MaryBeth

wondering if thats what im having.i was in work today when this surge of heat hotness cam eover me and then a feeling of real doom insise.Then i had heart palps so strong it all lasted about 10 minutes but then i was left with anxiety all morning.Is that a hot flush or is it an anxiety attack.I wasant breathless or anything i was clammy and sweaty but then i was cold afterwards.I was working at the time and didnt think i could manage but i did. just glad no one talked to me at that moment...I posted this question on am i in peri and just seen this so hopefully this is the right place to find out.My mum and gran both started at 37 im 41 /42 almost and ive just been to the gym and done an hour of cardio and havent sweated like i did this morning so i know they are unusual but just need confirmation that this is what it was or was it an anxiety attack as i was left anxious about it happening again and not being able to work....if it was will anti anxiety meds help them im not going to ask for them if they wont help but i think i could manage if i knew thats what it was...

Hiya, here goes: I feel just fine and then all of a sudden a fire breathing dragon with halitosis, breathes on me. Then the dragon flys away. Suddenly the dragon reappears and aims his hind parts at me without bellowing out BACK BLAST AREA ALL CLEAR. I hope that was a vivid explanation of what my hot flashes feel like, lol. Take care.

from,
menopaused

Dear 'MaryBeth'
Great answer!
At least if some men get the idea out they might be more sympathetic.
Stay Well

Warmest Wishes
Elizabeth

Hi all;
I just had my very first hot flash last weekend! I'd been having night sweats for years, but this was my first, official day-time flash. Two, actually. I was getting ready to go out for dinner. My house was rather chilly and I was wearing a light, gauzy top...suddenly, I was filled with an intense heat. I began pouring sweat (just what I need- to pit out my fresh top right before I head out the door!), but I had no emotional symptoms or palpitations. The whole thing lasted about three minutes. Then, I had another one a few minutes later in the car. I haven't had any since, but I'm assuming I'll start having them more frequently as time goes on. Oh, the joys of peri...

My hot flashes started 4 years ago, i'm 53 years old, and was sure I would be done by now, but no, not even close. My hot flashes sometimes come every 15 minutes and last a few minutes. My face gets so hot, and red, and I start sweating, mostly on my face. I feel really weak when they come, my heart starts racing and I get really nervous. If i'm in a store, I want to run out and leave, I keep moving to get a little breeze on my face. I'm awakened all night with these darn things. Its funny I wake up before I have one, its strange, like 30 seconds before the waive of heat hits. I have fans every where in my house. As i'm typing this, I have one blowing in my face. I don't go anywhere with out one. I absolutely hate the attention I get from these, everyone always knows when i'm having one, I get so frustrated. These hot flashes have affected my life so much, I don't like to walk anymore, because I dont want to be away from my fan, I had one the other day while I was out for a walk. I was walking up a hill and one hit. I felt so awful, my heart started racing, I felt so weak, dizzy, sick, I wanted to lay on the ground. It reminded me of the time when I use to play tennis, and got heat stroke. I don't like social gatherings because its embarrassing to start sweating, and I don't want to pull out my portable fan in front of everyone. Also I feel like its aged me too. I feel like its preventing me from doing things, I always think, I don't want to have a hot flash there. My husband is so understanding, he has to live in a ice box with all of the fans running, he never complains. Hot flashes are basically the only symptom I have from menopause, even as stressful as the hot flashes are, i'm a pretty mellow person, i don't have mood swings, but I do have to have my fans available or I get cranky.WHEN WILL THEY END.

Yes I have noticed that my body feels hot to the touch, my husband says he can tell when I'm having one in bed, he can feel the warmth generated from my body, and we have a king size bed.

After being post for 3 years next month, I'm 51 my hot flushes/ sweats/ and night flushes/sweats are worse!! I have to keep changing the meds I take which are natural at least every 6months because my body gets used to them. Now we are in winter it's a pain in the backside because as soon as I put a jumper (sweater) on I have to take it off because I become hot within 5 minutes. Today watching my son play football I put my jumper on and off continuously the weather was cold but I kept changing. Many people laugh and say, you having hot flushes not realizing what a nasty symptom it is. Men always joke about it, but my hub knows and son, to run for the hills if I'm flushing because my temper goes up as well, I don't understand that!! I've recently started night sweats maybe because we now have heavy coverings on the bed.
I'll be soooo glad when this is over!!!

Cheers choco

Help me understand feel bad in the morning.Hot tingling up my back and head get flushed.Upsets my stomach gives me the runs?!Sometimes feel hot on the inside but cold on the outside wipes me out in the AM.

I have been having some new symptoms lately, you talk about tingling, I get that in my stomach, chest and legs. I usually only get these sensations in the night when it wakes me up, its really weird. Everyone has different things going on, i'm trying to look into the bio identical hormones, anyone have any thoughts on them, let me know.

one word- h,e,l,l

Does anyone get full-headed, a little dizzy, tense, and tingly before they have a hot flash? Until I was diagnosed as having perimenopuase, I panicked like crazy when these sensations happened to me earlier this year. I am 49. My doc went ahead and gave an echo cardio sonogram and my hear is fine. I lost 25 pounds over the past 6 months and am healthier than I have ever been, but dang I hate these feelings! I am seeing a therapist for anxiety and am dealing with it much better than when this started. I love this message board and thought I'd toss in my hot flash symptoms to see if anyone else has this. Misery loves company I guess

XXOO, Beth

Beth, from what I have learned from alot of people is that everyone's hot flashes are different. I do get a strange sensation right before a hot flash comes. It is a tense, heart racing, sick to my stomach type of feeling. I know what you mean about feeling panicky, I get that way if i'm in a situation where I can't get cooled off. They aren't always bad, but its the bad ones that make life hell. I keep telling myself that I will try to make it thru the winter and if they aren't better by next summer I am definitely going on hormones. I don't think I can stand another summer with these things. I didn't feel like doing anything in the heat. I'm so glad you are losing weight and getting healthy. I'm doing the opposite, don't feel like exercizing with these hot flashes, but I need to start. I think I will once the weather gets cold. Take care, and know alot of us are going thru the same thing.

Hi all--

Mine are wimpy things -- as though breaking a fever & I don't even sweat. Also, they are not daily occurances. Kept a diary of them not long ago -- maybe have a week or more without them, then have a few over the course of a couple of days. Nothing to write about.

I will say I feel more weepy & fatigued when they occur. Feel good on flashless days. It seems to me they go in about a 2 week cycle -- as if they are trying to start ovulation etc. I did not like them so much during the summer (when they began to happen), but now that it is cold I don't mind. However, they are more absent now that it is cooler. Maybe I was just hot during the summer rather than flashing...

I also been having some mild vertigo, but my periods have been very irreg since last Dec. I am probably nearing postmeno....WV

My hands get hot and then my face. Sometimes my feet feel hot too. I am just feeling flushed alot, my face and lips feel warm, sort of feverish, then cooler. I am usually warm all the time. Years ago, chilly, no more turtlenecks for me. The nights? Awful. I get into a cool bed and then, bam, hot within minutes and it's hot and sweaty and chilly all night long. That just started a week ago, the night sweats. I guess 6 weeks off the birth control pills are kicking in. I am not happy, I love bedtime, but not lately.

This is the same for me .. 2 week cycles .. and I mostly feel them from the neck up

I've only ever had a few 'classic' hot flashes where you feel the heat come up from your chest and you feel like you're on fire and start sweating. These only lasted a few weeks.

I usually get what feels like a sun/wind burned feeling on my face and my eyes burn. My face will become visibly red and feel hot to the touch. This can last for a few hours a day for a few months then they're gone for a few months. I asked my Dr. about it and he said it's most likely just a different type of hot flash.

I'm like you.....i just burn away for days at a time and worse at night. don't notice it as much during the day, but it's there. and my skin crawls too...the 2 things seem to go together. and over the last few years i've had icy cold calf muscles. the top half of my body may be red hot, but the calves are feezing. i have them right up againt the heater in winter. if i don't, i start sneezing and catch cold. it's crazy. even in summer i wear leg warmers.
hope we all feel better soon!

Hot flashes for me have been the bane of my existence for way too many years.(13yrs)
Suddenly I get the most horrific feeling like the world is coming to an end or something
really bad is going to happen then the heat creeps up all the way from my toes to my head.
I feel dizzy, nauseated and my intestines churn and growl and I break out in a head to toe
sweat. My forehead drips with sweat and I feel like dropping to the ground. Sometimes I burst out sobbing..It slowly ebbs
away and then returns much to soon to repeat the never ending cycle.
At one point I had moved my bed right next to the window in the middle of winter to get the cold air...
The temperature dippes to -40 degrees in the winter and I loved it....
Sometimes it was snowing and it would blow through the window to land on me while I slept.
I swear I could feel the snow sizzling on my hot clammyskin...My room used to get so cold I;m surprised I did
not die of hypothermia....I could be standing outside in this frigid weather sweating buckets....
At one point this used to happen about every 20 -30 min day and night...needless to say
this affected so many aspects of my life the most difficult was having to go to work like this
and deal with people on a one to one basis, when I could no longer think , type, or talk,wanting to puke,
and feeling like running very faraway....that was the worst..I no longer can work because of this...
I have spent the last 10 summers or so cloistered in my house because I cannot handle the
heat of the day....I swell like a balloon in the humidity and can barely walk...air conditioning does not help...
I even get them in the shower...that has got to be to grossest feeling...I can no longer take baths
because soaking in water gives me hot and cold rushes and I want to throw up...swimming is out also...
I could go on and on about the hot flashes but writing all of this is giving me one and I have to go lay down...

god bless this mess

Wow, and I thought mine were bad. I really feel for you, and 13 years of these, I don't know if I could stand it. I know what you mean about having your room like a icebox. It is the only way I can maybe sleep thru the hotflashes, sometimes. Don't get much sleep anymore and that worries me. Do you keep a fan blowing in your face, that is only way I can take it. I am so close to taking hormones because I worry about not sleeping and not exercizing, i'm gaining weight which isn't healthy either. So which is worse...having a hotflash,... had to turn my fan on... oh well, these come every 15 minutes, its driving me nuts. Can you take hormones? Or are you afraid like I am. Think I might start looking into bioidentical hormones. I have had mine for going on 4 years now, no end in sight. Its not fair, none of my sisters have them, and my mother never did, so why am I having such trouble. I also get the nausea sometimes like you described, not to often, my heart races, get extremely hot, and I feel like I want to faint, if I can't get cooled down with my fan. It is strange how we can feel the hotflashes before they come, it wakes me in my sleep, and then sure enough a hot flash come.
I just wanted to tell you that you are not alone, and I feel for you, and I pray we can find relief soon for these

Usually my chest and face get hot but last night I had the pleasure of a quick surge of tingle from my toes up to my head, with the feeling of being sick to my stomach and then heat, then sweat, then cool, all within a minute or two, then my head felt funny then heat again. it is so unpleasant, it's getting old.