Hot flashes: is this normal?

[Bekindbekind]

I’m 50; not everything I experience is going to be menopause-related but it’s obviously a contender. (I will speak to my doctor, but this is not “call 111” material.)

I’ve been feeling awful yesterday and today, managed to fend off a migraine using my prescribed medication. I’ve been going hot and cold fairly often. Today I seem to be going hot every few minutes, and when I look in the mirror my face is quite red. I’ve taken my temperature but despite feeling feverish, I don’t have a fever.

Are these hot flashes? Is it normal for them to come in every few minutes like this?

I know nobody can tell me over the internet of course but I’m so confused! I’ve not experienced this before.

I was like that before testing positive for covid.

Ha, it’s a possibility I suppose!

Didn’t have it the first time I had covid though, or with any other virus.

What’s your experience of hot flushes been though?

I rarely have them…but friend can have 30 in an hour….like she has a fever.

You are the right age for menopausal symptoms, but going hot and cold as often as that sounds more like a fever.

Dunno the meno answer, but would paracetamol help?

The vast majority of my hot flush experience was a sudden onset intense 3 month ish phase during which i had about 20 over the 24 hr day, on repeat. It was awful but i have friends who've done this for years. Mine left as suddenly as they'd started. Prior to that I'd had only a few in isolation, like many months or a year in between. Because the heat is so intense the cool afterwards did feel quite cold to me. Doesn't mean this is what's happening to you, but that was my experience of hot flushes.

I struggled to define them. But before I had some that I recognised I was exceptionally hot at night and would wake up. Thai went on for a couple of years. I wasn't sweating though so didn't associate it as a night sweat.

First I knew of them was actually after being on hrt and it wasn't enough. Heat came over me in waves on and off for a morning.

For me it's been more that my thermostat just doesn't work; I can be exceptionally cold or far too hot whereas I always used to need socks, extra layers and a hot water bottle in summer. For me personally taking utro continuously has helped a lot with ups and downs that trigger thermostat issues

I do have a bug at the moment and felt like this yesterday and had no temp. Including red face. So it might be a bug

Yes, I must have at least 50 a day, been like this for years (can't take hrt). Its bloody awful. Its like a rush of heat, and yes I go red. Obviously could also be an illness, you'll know soon enough!

I'm 42 and have been having the hot red face flushes in the evenings for a week or two. Feeling cold and nauseous on and off too. Covid neg.

Not bad enough to say I feel 'unwell' but certainly something not quite right. No idea 🤷‍♀️

I thought I was having night sweats and hot flushes… turned out I had type 2 diabetes.( diagnosed last year.)I’m 58.

I'm having about 50 hot flashes a day (side effect of medication which has crashed me into menopause) and it's hard to describe but it's different from a fever as it's literally just feeling boiling hot for a few minutes and then going back to normal. Its different from a fever as I don't feel unwell in any other way.