What Really Are Hot Flashes?
Hot Flashes are symptoms of HORMONE IMBALANCE and should be managed Naturally with Bioidentical Hormones Restoration.
Hot flashes often present with a sudden, intense, hot feeling on your face and upper body. This may be preceded or accompanied by a rapid heartbeat, sweating, nausea, dizziness, anxiety, headache, weakness, or a feeling of suffocation. Some women experience a strange, uneasy feeling just before the hot flash, that lets them know what's coming. The flashes are followed by a sensation that may leave you perspiring. You can have heavy sweating or just feel moist. The whole experience may be initiated by, or end with, a chill.
Night Sweat is profuse sweating that is not related to any overheating in the sleeping environment.
What Causes Hot Flashes and Night Sweats?
Hot flashes are mostly caused by the hormonal changes of menopause, but can also be influenced by lifestyle, medications and surgery. A diminished level of hormones, mainly estrogen, has a direct effect on the hypothalamus, the part of the brain responsible for controlling your appetite, sleep cycles, sex hormones, and body temperature. Somehow it appears that the drop in estrogen confuses the hypothalamus—our body's "thermostat"—and makes it read "increased body heat."
The brain responds to this report by ordering the heart, blood vessels, and nervous system to 'cool down the body.' The message is transmitted by the nervous system's chemical messengers, epinephrine, and related compounds: norepinephrine, prostaglandin, serotonin. The message is delivered instantly. Your heart pumps faster, the blood vessels in your skin dilate to circulate more blood to radiate off the heat, and your sweat glands release sweat to cool you off even more.
This heat-releasing mechanism is how your body keeps you from overheating in the summer, but when the process is triggered instead by a drop in estrogen, your brain's confused response can make you very uncomfortable. Some women's skin temperature can rise six degrees Centigrade during a hot flash. Your body cools down when it shouldn't, and you are miserable: soaking wet in the middle of a board meeting or in the middle of a good night's sleep.
Night Sweats are generally believed to be caused by severe hot flashes occurring at night that can saturate sleepclothes, pillow sacks and sheets, This profuse sweating is not related to any overheating in the sleeping environment
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Who Can Get Hot Flashes:
Eighty-five percent of the women in the United States experience hot flashes of some kind as they approach menopause and for the first year or two after their periods stop. Between 20 and 50% of women continue to have them for many more years. As time goes on, the intensity may decreases.
There is considerable variation in time of onset, duration, frequency, and the nature of hot flashes. An episode can last a few seconds or a few minutes, occasionally even an hour, but it can take another half hour for you to feel yourself again. The most common time of onset is between six and eight in the morning, and between six to ten at night.
Most women have mild to moderate hot flashes, but about 10–15% of women experience such severe hot flashes that they seek medical attention. For women who have had breast cancer, the number who suffer debilitating hot flashes is probably much higher. Randomized studies provide the most objective data: about 50–75% of women taking tamoxifen will report hot flashes, compared to 25–50% taking placebo.
Hot Flashes Can Be Severe
The faster you go through the transition from regular periods to no periods—the peri-menopause or climacteric—the more significant your hot flashes will be. Hot flashes are severe after surgical menopause, and they can also be quite difficult after a chemotherapy-induced medical menopause. If you haven't been warned about hot flashes, a sudden severe episode can be frightening; you might even confuse the flash with a heart attack.
The intensity of hot flashes accompanying treatment with tamoxifen eventually improves for many women after the first three to six months. Because of the conversion of androstenedione from the adrenal glands into estrone by fat and muscle cells, heavy or muscular women experience less severe hot flashes than thin women. If you smoke, your blood vessels lose some of their ability to radiate heat, so you may suffer more severe hot flashes.
Manage Hot Flashes and Night Sweats Naturally:
The best way to beat a hot flash is naturally. Hot flashes have a lot to do with low levels of estrogen in your body, but other factors can cause your temperature control to malfunction. Try this approach:
- Identify and Avoid/ Control Your Hot Flash Triggers
If you can identify the things that trigger your hot flashes, you've made the first step in getting the upper hand. Keep a record of when they occur and what you were eating or doing, or how you were feeling at the time. Many women find that stress tops the charts as a trigger. Was that hot flash in the boardroom a random hit, or were you feeling under pressure at the time? Was it a full day of pressure without a break?
Solution: Ease the pressure. Give yourself more time to plan your work, to rehearse your presentation, to deliver your assignments, to arrive where you're going. If you are doing a series of presentations, give yourself a chance to relax and cool off between sessions. And plan your schedule so you avoid meetings or decision making when you're most likely to be sweating
Other hot flash triggers may include:
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- smoking. alcohol caffeine diet pills very spicy foods
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Most importantly, remember that the problem is HORMONE IMBALANCE.
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Hormone Imbalance includes much more than the symptoms addressed in this section on Hot Flashes.
Other symptoms that are related to Hormone Imbalance include:
- acne
- bloating
- lack of sex drive
- drumpiness
- decreased energy
- depression
- decreased libido
- endometriosis
- erectile disfunction
- forgetfulness
- fatigue (adrenal, chronic)
- fibromyalgia
- hair loss
- headaches
- high blood pressure
- high cholesterol
- hot flashes
- increated appetite
- increased blood sugar levels
- sugar craving
- nicotine and alcohol cravings
- increased facial hair
- insomnia
- impotence
- irritability
- loss of lean muscle tissue
- loss of bone mass
- lower back problems
- menopause problems (pre-, post-, peri-,)
- mood swings
- muscle weakness
- night sweat
- ovarian disorders (cysts)
- periods - painful and/or heavy
- sleep disturbance
- thyroid disorders (hyper, hypo,)
- uterine problems (fibroids)
- vaginal dryness
- weight gain
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Based on the information in your profile you will be advised what hormones need to be tested. You wil be sent the appropriate test kit. If you are interested in Pellet BHRT where the hormones are painlessly inserted under the skin for 4-6 months of symptoms relief, you will require a blood test. If you are interested in Traditional BHRT, which requires taking the hormones daily, you will need a saliva test.
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When we receive your test results, (approximately 2 weeks after the lab receives your sample), you will be contacted to arrange a consultation with the doctor. For your convenience, this may take the form of an office visit or by telephone. For those interested in Pellet Therapy, consultations can only be done in my office, for implantation of the hormone pellets.
Step 4: Management Plan.
In the case of Traditional BHRT, a prescription will be sent to our compounding pharmacist, (or a compounding pharmacy of your choice), based on the results of your consultation, symptoms and salivary test. Our bioidentical hormone restoration plan is individualized specifically for you. Our therapy is never mass produced. One size does not fit all.
Step 5: Continued Plan of Care
At the time of your consultation a detailed care plan will be provided. This will be based on the consultation with the physician, your symptoms and test results. All care plans are based on your own needs, and include an evaluation of Nutrition, Exercise and Lifestyle choices.
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