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.

Comments

[bethbethbeth.livejournal.com]

Sounds like it. Welcome to geezer-hood. :)

[trickpie.livejournal.com]

Mum's just going through it now so I feel like I have a bit of say here, hooray! She said that she doesn't get red-faced at all, her skin doesn't change colour, she just suddenly feels like she's cooking from the inside. So you might be okay?

[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.

[laurelwood.livejournal.com]

I've only ever had pregnancy-related hot flashes, but what you describe sounds just like those.

When does menopause usually strike in your family? Because although I realize perimenopause can rear its ugly head well in advance of Menopause Proper, you do seem awfully young. Then again, menopause runs super late in our family (no symptoms till mid-50s, and then WHAM) so anything younger than late 40s seems awfully young to me. I'll keep my fingers crossed that this was a fluke episode (Leory, that prankster, turned on the heater just to freak you out!) and won't plague you further for many, many years yet.

[coco-palmolive.livejournal.com]

I was going to say, gee, that used to happen to me all the time, no big deal, but then, well, yeah. I guess that makes it a hot flash. :-(

[lindyhoppr.livejournal.com]

Yep. Hot flash.

I get one every month with my monthly friend. Cause that's not enough of a problem.

[octoberstory.livejournal.com]

Next stop, MOM PANTS. :-*