Clonidine for hot flushes

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Is anyone taking clonidine for hot flushes or had any experience of it? I tried HRT and it didn't help me so I've not been taking anything. However the flushes are so awful - dripping with sweat a few times a day, hot and sweaty all the time. I am so fed up with it, plus I'm not sleeping well so I'm tired, got aching joints and brain fog. I find it really embarrassing at work with clients and colleagues. If anyone has any other non-HRT ideas, I'd love to hear them.

My disabled boy has clonidine for sleep alongside melatonin. It works okay for a shirt while ?!!

I do, and it has really helped. I no longer flush in the day but lately have started to heat up at night again. Apparently can up the dose but that comes with side effects.
At the start I had a terrible dry mouth, but that settled after a few weeks.
It’s definitely worth a go.

Medical advice from NICE is HRT is first line treatment.

What HRT did you use dose and how long for? My advice would be to go back to it and find out about why it didn't work- pill type isn't absorbed well, the dose may have been too low and all kinds of reasons.

All your other symptoms are showing lack of estrogen too. Clono won't help those.

Thanks for your messages. @Milliways good to hear it works for you. @JinglingHellsBells I tried combined patches for 3 months - I think they were Evoril Conti? - the lowest dose and I didn't notice any improvement. I am seeing my GP this week so will discuss a higher dose of HRT as well as Clonidine. I realise the latter won't help the sleeping, brain fog etc but it's the sweating I find so debilitating and embarrassing.

Even if you are post men @Thankyou it's often best to start HRT as a sequential type. That way you get 2 weeks of estrogen alone, before taking the progstogen part (which is the hormone that counteracts estrogen so it can feel as if it's not working.)

If you start on conti it's 2 hormones every day and impossible to see if you feel better on estrogen.

You could try an estrogen only patch- such as Estradot- and add in micronised progesterone (this is the newest and possibly safest way of using HRT>)

OR instead of the patch, try Oestrogel- it's then up to you to experiment with the dose and find what works.

Lots of women don't know about all the types of HRT (and neither do GPs!) and give up when there are plenty other types to try.