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Posted: Jan 6, 2017

I am in my early 50s and am getting hot flashes about hourly. I was just wondering if anyone has tried anything that worked for them. I have looked on the Internet and it sounds as if the naturopathic options aren't really proven to work, but at this point I will do about anything! TIA

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Estroven has been great for mine. nm - Lexi

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Black cohosh and - sm

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maca root. I preferred the Sundown brand of the black cohosh, it just seemed to work better for me. I would take the maca once a day, but I would take the black cohosh when I had a hot flash. I would sit down afterwards with a glass of ice water for about 5 minutes and then I was fine. It worked well for my sister too when she went through it.

hot flashes - anon

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Thanks so much... I am melting in my chair right now!

Hot flashes - MT

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When chemo patients get hot flashes the docs always tell them to take vitamin E. Just a thought.

progesterone - Ann

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Progesterone cream from the health food store, or I ordered online as it cost less that way.

My sister in law swears by soy milk. See msg - Shorty

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She got hot flashes bad at night, started drinking 8 oz. of chocolate soy milk before bed, said it helped significantly.

It may just be luck of the draw - Just another slave

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I've never had one of those. I had a total hysterectomy about 14 years ago and seems that made me skip over that unpleasantness completely.

I feel for you, Sizzle Sister - sm

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Three years ago, I started getting severe hot flashes. They occurred so frequently, I timed them--every 25 minutes! I would become almost unbearably hot, sweat profusely, and then start to freeze down to my bones.

My doctor started me out on the weakest strength of estrogen with progesterone replacement hormone transdermal cream that my pharmacist compounds for me. The hot flashes diminished somewhat, but were still very bothersome. After almost a year, the strength and dosage were increased, and this helped tremendously. I do still get hot flashes from time to time, but they are nothing like what they were. Keeping the strength and dosage to the absolute weakest that would still give me the benefits of decreased hot flashes has also, I think, protected me from any potential side effects of hormone therapy. Also, I am using bioidentical compounded hormones, not the stuff made from pregnant mare's urine. There is a difference.

Best of luck to you!

Tried these cures - (SM)

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When these things hit, I was working at a hospital job I had just acquired and was so desperate to get sleep, went on HRT. I quit that when, 2 years late, I had a lump on mammogram. And then it really began. Here is what I tried to do:

Have some ice water with me at all times. I happen to be so in touch with my body, I would experience a momentary sense of unwell before the actual heat wave consumed me.

A Fan everywhere, tall one went beside bed.

Pillow with a cool water bottle under case.

I watched a woman do this and incorporated it into my "relief system."

Cold towels or wash clothes (if out in public, go into public restroom and grab a handful of dry towels, wet them with cold water and when these blasts of fire strike, lay these cool towels on any skin surface you can reach, behind neck, bottom of feet, hands and wrists). These will give you ability to continue a conversation without looking like you are in need of Heimlich maneuver, and no one seems to mind women carrying a hanky around.

I have had the worst and over a very long time, in relationship to my friends. Peeling off clothes like they were on fire is how I could be found in my early state of literally One Hot Flash every 15 minutes. These were 2-3 minutes of the sensations of unwell, the rise in body temperature, the break, and the sweating to recovery.

And I had to go through 2 deaths and cancer treatment at same time. I am now the strongest woman on earth if personal constitution depends on not losing your mind under the worst conditions unrelenting over years.

And years it was. I am 10 years and still have a hot flash every week or two.

Wear cotton!

hot flash survival - you can do it

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I had hot flashes about 15 to 20 times a day. Did a lot of thinking and watching circumstances. Figured out that chocolate and stress can bring on the worst flashes (and freezes after the flash), so I cut back on sweets which helped a lot. Learned to blow off as much stress as possible, not create stress where it's not needed, and avoided people who cause it (when possible to avoid), and that helped immensely. I tried a number of remedies that only made things worse. I can't take anything, so I just deal with it. I now have flashes just a few times a week, usually triggered by something. It'll pass in time, so just look forward to the end of it. :)

5-foot pianist - 5-foot pianist

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Proper med. terminology is hot "flush", MTs.

A.k.a. "power surges".

hot flushes - 5-foot pianist

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Oh good grief! Could I have goofed up that reply any worse?

I'm going back to bed and turning the fan on high.

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