Those Mumsnetters who are old enough to have (or have had) hot flushes

[bibbitybobbitybunny]

how many do you have in a day/night?

I have only recently started having them during the day. I seem to have about 2 or 3 or 4 ... can I expect that to get worse? Am hurtling towards 50.

as if I would lie to you it's seems to only to be available in this lovely subtle colour .

It's great when you do your shopping and the metal chain of the trolley attaches itself to your foof

I know what you mean about the panic, Kurri - they can be very claustrophobic. Especially when you're in public and there's nothing else you can take off, short of going naked! (Actually, maybe I could build my client base that way ... )

No HRT for me as my mum, who was taking it, died from breast cancer.

Mayonnaise recipes

It's easy to do, as long as you add your oil very slowly to start with. Don't use all extra virgin olive oil as it makes the flavour very strong. And if you're using lemon juice, it can make it very tart - which is why I guess that commercial ones might also use sugar in theirs.

Whoops - that will teach me to have more than one tab open at a time

Apologies. Although if you wanted to know how to make mayonnaise, you're welcome.

I was just beginning to wonder how that tied in.
I thought maybe the oil was helpful!

it's just one long road of hell all the way to the grave

Glass half empty, Hully?

BIWI, sorry about your mum.

cocolepew, it looks bigger than I thought it would be.Do you feel it much when you walk around ? apart from the trolley problem

My mum had breast cancer with hrt too, BIWI, but she was lucky and survived.

That's good to hear, Hully. I don't think hormones and my mum were a good match, tbh. And given her medical history - with perfect hindsight - I think it was a mistake for the medics to have prescribed HRT for her. She had a nervous breakdown in her early 30s which was caused by being on the pill.

That's crap.

I wouldn't have hrt either. I'm going to get the natural stuff my mum gets from her herbally naturally pal.

The more I read about food/health generally, the more I shy away from conventional medicines. I suspect I'm going to end up growing my hair to my knees living in a cave somewhere foraging for roots and bulbs.

A true womble

Mind you, all that fur wouldn't be conducive to hot flushes

or would be rather

Well yes

These things matter

BIWI,I try and stay away from medicines if I can too.
Though just to balance this out, my mum took HRT, for the flushes I think, after having a hysterectomy, and didnt have any problems with the HRT.She said she felt well on it.
Thats the trouble isnt it
different medicines affect different people in different ways, much like the hot flushes themselves.Which rather answers the ops question.

Indeed, amillionyears.

I'm just hopeful that I never get the symptoms so badly that I feel I have to resort to a medical treatment. I have no idea why my mum felt she needed HRT because she never talked to me about it. So I also have no idea what HRT she was on or for how long. She was first diagnosed at 62, so I''m guessing she was probably around my age when she started taking it.

My mum took it for 10 years, then the gp sugested she come off it, which she did.

maybe for her she was on it for too long,or maybe like you said, she wasnt suited to it.
My own opinion about medicines in general changed when an uncle used to take a lot of antiacid pills, or else it was aspirin, cant remember which! and the doctor said that his stomach lining was peppered with imprints of where the pills had ended up.
I also am a bit reluctant about natural medicines too, just in case.I was watching an old episode of Doc Martin the other day, and he said, in his gruff acting to a patient"well you wouldnt take poison ivyor was it deadly nightshade now would you,just because it is natural?"

Don't want to sound smug but its not always bad news for everyone - I only had one hot flush and then didn't really realise what it was about until I was thinking about it later .

I must be very lucky as I never had any period problems at all, periods stopped in my late 50s. Note - I am not a fit, slim, healthy type .

You sound smug to me

I took up running after a surgucal menopause, mainly for bone protection, but a rather nice side effect has been that my hot flushes have all but disappeared. I commented on this at the menopause clinic that I attend and the consultant said that their research had shown that improving fitness helps with menopause symptoms. Handy to know if you are not keen on hrt

thanks thenightisyoung.Am trying to motivate myself to get fitter, so this info will help.