Hot flushes

[puzzled54]

Does anyone else get a strange feeling in the stomach just before or during a hot flush?

[starone]

Yes - it is not pleasant and not like just feeling hot. Difficult to describe really, just starts and goes all through your body, makes you feel like rubbish. I still get them and I am 84!! Sometimes I am dripping wet and I keep a towel near at hand for emergencies. Mostly during the night.

[DEN53]

Starbuckone - you have really cheered me up, 84 ! I am 55 and have been having them since my hysterectomy 13 years ago.........(:o(

puzzled - funny wobbly feeling in tummy just before onset and whole body feels like its exploding....

[puzzled54]

Yes, can't describe it, but its the feeling in the stomach that is the difference between a flush and just feeling hot.
Thanks for that input starbuckone.

[starone]

I asked the doctor what it was because I thought I was rather old - me: If I wasn't so old I would think it was hot flushes. doc: yes it is, some people get them into old age.

[DEN53]

puzzled - my good friend Mazie on here, said to try chewing 2 sage leaves per day - I only got as far as three chews of one leaf and thought I was being poisoned - but you may fair better than me with it.

[puzzled54]

It's not just me then.
Thank den53

[mazie]

You Wimp DEN (xxx) I dont have any hot flsuhes these days. Mine only lasted about 18 months....I think it was the Sage leaves ;o)

[DEN53]

I have also heard that, Starbuckone - I have tried everything from Soya Milk (which I still have) to rubbing some miracle cream into my belly to Red Clover Tablets - various herbal tablets - but to be honest nothing worked.

[DEN53]

Watcha Mazie - hahaha I did give it good go, I promise, but however hard I tried, I just couldn't convince my brain I was eating a bar of Galaxy. (:o)

[mazie]

lol,. no that's a hard task indeed. I'm lucky I quite like raw herbs

[starone]

Yes, I drink Soya Milk - it is actually better for you than ordinary milk, which I don't like anyway and I have tried sage - didn't work. At the moment I am taking soya isoflavones with red clover and khudzu root tablets one a day, but I don't think it is making any difference. I think it is one of those things you have to put up with. Unfortunately!

[puzzled54]

Would sage tea be worth a try?

[starone]

No it isn't just you puzzled. In fact I expect you have opened the floodgates here.

[starone]

Personally, I would try (almost) anything if I thought it would work.

[mazie]

did you take the sage raw starbuckone?

[starone]

No mazie I took sage tablets. My friend who is also frantic to get rid of them is taking sage oil at the moment but I shall have to ask her how she is getting on with it.

[DEN53]

Me also, Starbuckone - I would try anything and have - the mircle cream, was Wild Yam, it said rub on tummy area twice a day - did zilch for me, but Mr. Den's dry sore elbows cleared up a treat ! (:o)

[redman41]

Feel really sorry for all you ladies with these problems ! Hope you all have understanding Husbands/Partners who can cope and understand the problem.

[DEN53]

Hello Redman, my love - Mr. Den is sympathetic, he usually throws a wet flannel at me and says 'you look like a beetroot' - hee hee

[redman41]

Hi DEN !
Do you chuck it back at him and tell him to make his own Dinner !! lol