So, My Mother Is out of Town, or: I'm Way Too Young For Perimenopause, Right?

[constance]

People, is there anyone out there who can tell me what a hot flash feels like? I mean, I know my friendslist skews to the young side, but if there is: is it when you're pretty sure it's perfectly comfortable in your house and as a matter of fact you're cold-natured anyway and sometimes you get kind of chilled, but all of a sudden you feel uncomfortably warm (warm enough to wake up, if you happen to be sleeping), maybe flushed, broken out in a light sweat, and you get up to check the thermostat to make sure everything's still working before you remember that your A/C hasn't really run for days anyway on account of the mild weather, but yeah, the house temperature's right on target, it's just your body that's running all amok? And then you sit fuming over your freakish episode for a few minutes before you realize that you're comfortable again? Is it like that? Because if it is. Jesus Christ.

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[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Sometimes I wake up in the night all sweaty, but so far it hasn't happened to me in the daytime yet. I'll probably have them bad and long, though; my mother had menopause-related hot flashes for twenty years before they finally faded out after she turned 70.

One of the Table Talk people used to swear by yoga as a cure for hot flashes. Her basic argument was that your body wanted you to get hot and sweaty every couple of days, so you might as well do it in the gym.

[tofty.livejournal.com]

Okay, you have just pulled me out of my self-pity and launched me straight into resonant-pity. Man, I would be trying to sue someone if I thought I had twenty years of this to look forward to.

The hot-flash thing, it's been hitting me in my sleep, too, for a month or so, I think. Yesterday afternoon was the first time it hit me during the day. Maybe the workout thing does help, too -- I don't do yoga, just this semi-aerobic cardio thing, but I take Sundays off, so maybe getting all hot and bothered while working out is ensuring that I don't otherwise get hot and bothered during my waking hours. :-?