Is anyone else just generally hotter than usual during peri/menopause?

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I get the odd hot flushes but that’s much better since starting HRT but generally I am just waaaay hotter than everyone around me. I’ll be in a T-shirt, everyone else is in jumpers. I feel like this is a symptom which affects me all the time and is really miserable (though obviously easier to manage in winter). Before meno I was always cold and have a wardrobe full of jumpers I can’t even conceive wearing now and a puffa type coat which I haven’t worn for about 2 yrs now!

Yes, although mainly at night (but no hot flushes). Even though it's winter I have a summer-weight duvet, open window, no heating on in the morning...

Yes. I can't sit in the sitting room at night when our heating is on. DH sits wrapped in a rug and I lie blowing air into my fringe. That and the restless legs means I don't spend much time on the sofa at all!.

But perversely I'm always freezing in the car and DH melts.

Not just me then 😖 I get hot flushes too but that is on top of just generally being too hot anyway, it's really miserable.

Yes, I love waltzing about in winter with no coat on. Although it's only me and DD in the house and sometimes I forget I'm freezing her to death by not putting the heating on because I dont realise until she comes downstairs with two oodies and a jumper on

Yes, I overheat VERY quickly and literally have sweat running down my face if I try to do anything. I used to be one of those people who was always cold. Now I'm hot if I move. I'm mightily sick of it.

I am! I was having loads of hot flushes but after cutting out have all alcohol, spicy/fatty food, coffee and only drinking decaf tea, they seem to have mostly gone. But I’m always warmer than everyone else, I haven’t even worn a coat this year and I can’t even think of wearing thick jumpers or anything with a high neckline.... 🥵

Yes me. I'm 58 and my internal thermostat is all over the place. It's worse in the winter when going from a warm house to cold outside, I just can't seem to regulate myself any more.

I wish!

I break out in a sweat even just seeing people all wrapped up. I'm still currently sleeping with 2 fans on full blast and my cooling blanket.

@Sheldoncoopersspot Same, I can’t sleep without a fan on me now. Are cooling blankets good? I’ve never looked into them much but I’m ‘only’ 44 and this could go on for years yet so think maybe I should try one.

I'm sitting in a summer dress, everyone else has jumpers on, 2 years and counting!

I love my cooling blanket its lovely and cold. I saw a recommendation on here about them and bought one it's from Amazon,dd loved it that much I had to order her one and ds now wants one for summer. I paid around £30 for mine and it covers my king size bed.

Me too, and I'm in summer dresses too. I sweated droplets in a meeting earlier, in my summer dress while younger female colleagues and men were in jumpers. Thankfully it's a kind team and no one said anything and just behaved normally, but i was patting away actual sweat whilst discussing a serious thing. Generally though I'm just warm, and get little waves of warmth while dh is in layers of fleece. It's been this way a few years now. I'm 10 months since my last period, and last year i only had 5 or 6 (one went on a long time, or it was two seperate periods, i couldn't tell). I look forward to having a stable body temp.

I think I'm in early peri and I've noticed I'm much warmer this winter than I usually am . I haven't need my gloves as much. Not been wearing my puffer much either.I'm not at the hot flush stage yet, just running warm

I'm nearly always either too hot or too cold since peri. At least the hot flushes have eased off, for the most part.

It's weird.

@Sheldoncoopersspot Thank you for that, I’ll have a look and get one. It will be great to feel cooler overnight, I might even sleep through. 🤞

Just mentioned it to my partner and he said ‘oh so if you have a cooling blanket, maybe we can sleep without the fan on’.....Then I told him that you sleep with a cooling blanket and 2 fans on so not to get his hopes up. 🤣

Oh it’s good to hear from fellow sufferers! I felt like I was the only person going through this. It’s hard to explain, it’s not a hot flush as such it’s just being too hot all the time.
@HundredMilesAnHour - absolutely the same about overheating. My husband walked in on me in dining room yesterday, I had no trousers on and he said ‘why have you got no……ah’ and then just carried on as normal, he’s getting used to it now! (Disclaimer, I actually had taken my trousers off to try on something I was hemming up but then decided it was more comfortable without them on so just carried on sewing as I was 😄).

I look longingly at cosy jumpers now - couldn’t possibly wear them and totally agree about getting stressed out seeing people all bundled up, especially in shops where it’s so hot. I do feel that wearing short sleeves where everyone else is in woolly jumpers I might as well have a flashing neon sign around my neck saying ‘I’m menopausal’ 😳

I dont have the hot flashes, but find first thing in morning I have am hot, not sweaty hot, just hot!

I am able to wear jumpers but only if really cold outside.

What we have to go through!

"My husband walked in on me in dining room yesterday, I had no trousers on and he said ‘why have you got no……ah’ and then just carried on as normal"@MincepiesAreOneOfYourFiveADay that made me laugh, very like our home life.

I haven't had proper hot flushes for a while. Two older friends of mine had them for approx 10 years each. Mine, so far, were more like a raging fire that burned solidly for a few months ... and then that was it, just these waves of warmth, occasionally to the point of sweating. That raging fire though left me feeling giddy the whole time. I have so much respect for women who manage all these changes and just carry on. I've sat through through so many important meetings feeling like i was just going to burn out!