I am extremely cold, with cold feet, hands, nose and visible goose bumps, then the hot flash comes with all over sweat and difficult breathing, racing heart. Extreme thirst and dehydration. I also have hashimoto disease (or chronic lymphocytic , an autoimmune disease related to the thyroid gland) and my endocrine doc says my symptoms are not from my thyroid. He says it would for hyperthyroid. So, I cant find out why I am so extreme!

I tried every over the counter medications, herbs, vitamins, and progesterone cream and estrogen patches. Nothing works!

Good luck if you too give this a try. make sure to leave that chocolate bars alone. i have no more night sweats at all and only the odd day flush.

kind regards to you all.

I feel so sorry for us all because its a living nightmare when you cannot sleep for days/weeks/years like some of you. I’ve been living with this horrible hot flashes all day and all night for a several weeks now and they come about every half hour. I sleep about 2 hours per night broken in the middle of hot flashes and spend the night turning the covers on and off.

I guess its all menopausal related, I’m 47 and strange things have been occurring for some time now vis a vis peri menopause. I’m so tired. I went to the Chinese doctor for some acupuncture. At the very least, it has reduced my anxiety and my stress. I am taking Chinese herbs to reduce “fire” in the body. I still get the flashes despite the pills and acupuncture but will continue this treatment.

They say women in china do much better than western women with meno so I’m hoping its their medicine which works. If in a few weeks it works… I will come back and post, if not.. you can assume it didn’t work. All the other regular stuff recommended doesn’t seem to work for me either, the usual dong quai, black cohosh, etc.

I’ve spent a lot of money trying to find a cure. I’m mega dosing on vitamin C hoping this might help. I’m resisting the HRT as my mother was on premarin most of her life (pregnant horse uring) ugh! and developed strokes and clots. Despite docs insisting that the patches and sprays are lower risk, I still don’t like the risk. Its a very hard choice..

living like this will kill me too. Hugs to all.

My doctor and I talked about all of my options and I was lucky and had her at 7 and a half months pregnant.
She was healthy, However as my doctor expected I was having a lot of complications which led to 15 surgeries in total………the last resulting in a total Hystorectomy.

3 days after the surgery I was thrown Into Menopause……………………!!!!!!!!

Its been a year now of being on birth control to try to help with my hot flashes,they weren’t so bad at the beginning, but now a year later oh my lord………My hot flashes are my hot demons, I have them about every 10 mins in the day, and ALL NIGHT LONG to the point my bed is soaked, my clothes , my pillow and now it is affecting my husband and our sleep,I get them so bad I break down crying!!!

Now I realize ok I need HORMONES…………….Its a terrible feeling and I feel like I’m going out of my mind is this NORMAL!!!!

I really don’t have any advice either and would like to let you know you are in my prayers as well. Don’t be embarrassed. Forget what people may say or say. Ride your bike when it is warm enough to do so that you won’t be cold. During the time it is cold, get you a stand and turn your bike into a stationary one and put a mat under it to catch the sweat. I cannot help you, but you have helped me. My sweat problem is not as severe as yours, however, the fact that it is not, and after reading your story, I won’t complain again. Bless you and I wish you well!

I don’t have any advice, but you have my prayer, I’m pausing right now to say one for you…I hope this helps!