…to think I shouldn’t be getting hot flushes at 35?

[blankee]

Any ideas? I’m 35, I’m not peri, I have one DC2 and have been getting hot flushes for a while, mostly in the morning but occasionally in the evening.

Tonight I’m having one, only a mild increase in body temp to 37.3 but I’m sweating and uncomfortable and a cold shower has just left me damp but also still sweating! I’m not wearing clothes currently as it's hot enough without them.

My thyroid is fine (it's been checked) and I’m not stressed, nor on medication that causes hot flushes. I don’t have HIV or tuberculosis (just citing the things mentioned on healthline website). I am not, to my knowledge, pregnant, and if I were it would be 1-2weeks only.

I can’t remember when it started but there might be an association with having stopped breastfeeding. My hormone levels have been a bit odd since pregnancy and still haven’t settled back since stopping bfing in Feb this year.

Any ideas? Posting in AIBU for traffic.

Probably hormonal? I get a bit flushy when premenstrual.

I get hot before my period. I’ll wake up and my neck will be drenched, perhaps track the flashes and see if they are due to hormones?

How do you know you're not peri?

Ask your mother how old she was when she started getting peri symptoms.

You could be peri. I went into early menopause at 37, it’s more common than people think. Oestrogen levels often drop after having children and menopause isn’t “finished” until you haven’t had a period for more than a year - so you can be in peri for years and years. My first symptom was night sweats, I had to change my pjs during the night and endless hot flushes. I’ve been on HRT since. I’m 42 now.

Good points about not knowing I’m peri. I’m still regular as clockwork and have not long had a child, so I assumed I wasn’t! I will investigate that. I know my mum was in her 50s before she was truly menopausal but I don’t know about peri tbf.

It is possible I’m reacting to my menstrual cycle I guess? But it's never happened before this last couple of times. I’m supposedly 12 days from my period (very regular cycles) and my PMS symptoms never happen this early.

Really I should not long have ovulated so is there a possibility I am responding to the hormonal shift around ovulation? Or is PMS more likely?

When did you stop bf?

I get hot flushes related to bf demand going up or down but the flushes don't last long. Maybe 10 mins at a time.

I'm 35, I get them. I assumed peri as I know it can last years. My cycle is still regular but it is starting to change in flow, track every day and you notice.

Wait you had a child recently? How recently? Massive night sweats are normal post partum....

Yes, hormones. I get hotter before a period.

I also sweat in the night if I drink alcohol.

When they did the blood tests, did they include a full blood count?

Going on 3yo, but BF till just after DC turned 2. I’m actually still waiting for my breasts to shrink back to my pre pregnancy size so I’ve been wondering whether there’s some hormonal thing going on. Possibly that could explain the sweats, judging by some people's responses here.

Alternatively I suppose it could be peri. I really didn’t realise peri could start so early - what a swiz! I’m not looking forward to ten+ years of this

Now you’re asking me 🤔 I can’t remember but will look back in my records and see.