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Any suggestions for treatments and/or lifestyle hacks that helped with hot flashes and night sweats? (Besides oral HRT - I'd prefer to avoid that.)

Thanks in advance for any shared experiences!

bigskygal wrote:Any suggestions for treatments and/or lifestyle hacks that helped with hot flashes and night sweats? (Besides oral HRT - I'd prefer to avoid that.)

When you get to my age, this is what constitutes a hot flash;

Speaking of your age, Gob - it seems lately when you post about going to concerts they've been lovely classical gigs.

Have you gotten too old to rock out?

Nope, just no one playing here at present.

We've actually got more tickets for comedy gigs which are coming up inc

Billy Connolly
Eddie Izzard
Ross Noble
Noel Fielding

And lots of lovely cricket matches too

Gob wrote:Nope, just no one playing here at present.

We've actually got more tickets for comedy gigs which are coming up inc

Billy Connolly
Eddie Izzard
Ross Noble
Noel Fielding

And lots of lovely cricket matches too

It's good you're avoiding the crowds then.

yrs,
rubato

sounds familiar bigsky. not the thingy but the rocking out . i grew up on Floyd, bad company, eagles, Hendrix, beck (jeff), and the like, i grew to love bluegrass and johnny cash, and old hank too, but my last few years working i only listened to classical stuff on NPR. it made work more pleasant, rock just distracted me. i don t know anything about classical but it soothes me. i rarely listen to music at allnow, i just play my original stuff on classical guitar for my daughter. she is learning a few chords herself.

i did suffer putrid night sweats for a month and a half , while going thru the methadone withdrawal.... very unpleasant.

bigskygal wrote:Any suggestions for treatments and/or lifestyle hacks that helped with hot flashes and night sweats? (Besides oral HRT - I'd prefer to avoid that.)

Thanks in advance for any shared experiences!

I bought my wife one of those hand held fans. Other than that, she suffered through.

BSG--When my wife had a hysterectomy a number of years ago, she went on HRT (premarin as I recall) for about 7-8 months and then stopped. It did help her over the initial menopausal effects (which I understand are usually worst at the outset), and when she discontinued the hormone she did well. If you don't find anything else that works, you might want to discuss this sort of regimen with your doctor.

bigskygal wrote:Any suggestions for treatments and/or lifestyle hacks that helped with hot flashes and night sweats? (Besides oral HRT - I'd prefer to avoid that.)

Thanks in advance for any shared experiences!

It is a tradeoff between the certain harm of symptoms versus the increasingly uncertain harm of HRT.

yrs,
rubato