Hey all:

I have a question. Can you have hot flashes when you are still having your periods? My periods are coming usually everymonth but not always or they come every 12 days or wait for 40 days etc. Anyway, I had some people say you can't have hot flashes until you are totally menopausel. Now, I have had a few hot flashesbut not that many so some people are saying they are not really hot flashes. I am just wondering what you all think.

Thanks

Mopsy

Mopsy,

You can have a hot flash even while cycling. Hot flash may be a sign of estrogen deficiency or progesterone deficiency can also cause hot flashes...hormone imbalance will cause many symptoms as we all know.

Plumeria

Definitely Mopsy,
Plumeria is right. Hotflashes can occur while you're still having periods and they differ in description from person to person. For example, many ladies get hot and then break into a sweat at the end. I've never done that. I just get really hot starting around my abdomen/chest, then heat rises so that I get flushed in the face, my heart pounds & I feel extremely anxious [like Chicken Little - "The sky is falling!!"] before it all slowly calms down. Whole experience for me lasts usually around 10 - 15 minutes. Not the worst, only really throws me in the middle of the night when I wake up from a dead sleep and think something terrible's happening somewhere in the house...

As my Mom used to say, "It's never dull!"
thumper

Hey thanks. I needed to hear that. Mopsy

yeah, i'm in peri and i defintiely get both hot flashes and night sweats...the acupuncture/herbs have cut them way down..but yes, it's a sign too little estrogen, or a sudden drop in estrogen adn your adrenals are trying to raise the level..so you have a hot flash /pwer surge to try to bring your level up..

Lisa

Hi Mopsy
Flashes started for me when i was 35.,I was still and now having periods albeit long short light ect. The type of flashes i would have then were waking up drenched also daytime clothes on and off .drenched eachtime..i remember how they would come on ...out of the blue no anxiety prior to flush palps first tingles in my hands then hot and drenched, tingles in the scalp also. My fsh then was above 9 dr told me i was in peri my periods were pretty normal....around the same time i had panic attacks and they were bad years later im now 45 i thought it all calmed down. my periods have changed alot 10 days light bleed and 21 day cycle and 32 day cycle with 2 days very light bleed .so yes flash with bleeding is common...the change in the flash also i feel hot at the same time my head feels weird kinda light, mild frontal headache then i sweat at the same time feel sickly dry mouth its over in moments.My fsh is 10.8. now but i guess when we flush its 1000000 hehe ,

Make sure your seeing a good gyne. and endo . all the best.bahar

Mopsy,

Oh boy can they ever! I'm 47 and in the midst of peri. I have skipped up to three months but the last few months I've had three periods in a month and then three months of 28 day cycles. The hot flashes come and go for me in a random fashion. For a short time I took Vagifem vaginal estrogen and the hot flashes left as well as the vaginal dryness but I decided to not risk cancer and stopped taking them, back came the hotflashes and dryness. Oh well it may sound odd but I kind of like the hotflashes but I do hate the nightsweats.