Hot Flashes
Ah, the joys of womanhood. When the female body decides that baby-making time is over, many women experience hot flashes--the occasional onset of skin redness, sweating, increased heart rate and in general feeling like you've just been teleported onto the sun's surface - Shaunacy Ferro
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Meet the Super Flasher: Some Menopausal Women Suffer Years of Hot Flashes
What kind of hot flasher are you?
The hot flash — that sudden feeling of warmth that can leave a woman flushed and drenched in sweat — has long been considered the defining symptom of menopause. But new research shows that the timing and duration of hot flashes can vary significantly from woman to woman, and that women appear to fall evenly into four hot-flash categories.
Some women, called “early onset” hot flashers, begin to experience hot flashes long before menopause. Symptoms can begin five to 10 years before a woman’s last period, but the symptoms stop around the time of the final menstrual cycle.
Then there are women who don’t experience their first hot…
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What Does a Hot Flash Actually Feel Like?
Menopause affects everybody differently, and so hot flushes can feel different from individual to individual. “Many women describe a hot flash as a sudden onset of heat that is felt internally especially in the chest, neck, and face,” says Kiarra King, M.D., a board-certified ob-gyn. “Some women will have associated perspiration, flushing, or heart palpitations.” According to a review in the Journal of Midlife Health, hot flashes are sensations of heat, sweating, flushing, anxiety, and chills.
What you need to know about your internal infernos
Better known as VMS, or Vasomotor Symptoms, due to menopause.
Hot flashes and heart health
This symptom is common in menopause, but frequent or persistent episodes could be a sign of higher risk for heart attack or stroke.
Menopause 'Freshman 20' All Over Again
While putting periods, cramps and PMS behind you may be a bonus, new challenges take their place. Beyond the hot flashes, insomnia, and irritability, you have another issue to consider — a thickening middle.
This Is What Experiencing A Hot Flash Looks Like
Ah, the joys of womanhood. When the female body decides that baby-making time is over, many women experience hot flashes--the occasional onset of skin redness, sweating, increased heart rate and in general feeling like you've just been teleported onto the sun's surface.
Up to 14 Years of Hot Flashes Found in Menopause Study
Conventional wisdom has it that hot flashes, which afflict up to 80 percent of middle-aged women, usually persist for just a few years. But hot flashes can continue for as long as 14 years, and the earlier they begin the longer a woman is likely to suffer, a study published on Monday in JAMA Internal Medicine found.
Hot Flashes and Killer Whales: The Evolutionary Advantage of Menopause
The patriarchy thinks menopause is a problem. A new book is making waves with the argument that “the change” has value for our species and the women who go through it.
Are untreated hot flashes just a sweaty irritant? Or, are they a sign of a more significant health risk?
The biology of hot flashes starts in an area of our brain called the hypothalamus, where a small group of neurons nicknamed “KNDy neurons” (for kisspepsin, dynorphin, and neurontin B) communicate with the adjacent heat center, which controls our body temperature.
Menopausal Hot Flashes: A Concise Review
Hot flashes (HFs), defined as transient sensations of heat, sweating, flushing, anxiety, and chills lasting for 1–5 min, constitute one of the most common symptoms of menopause among women though only a few seek treatment for these. The basis of HFs lies in abnormal hypothalamic thermoregulatory control resulting in abnormal vasodilatory response to minor elevations of core body temperature.
The Hot Flashes of Menopause May Protect Women’s Hearts
A new study suggests that women who experience intense menopausal symptoms like hot flashes and night sweats may actually have a health advantage — they may be protected from heart disease, stroke and even death years after the Change. That’s good news for menopausal women who haven’t had much to celebrate in recent years.
Why You're Having Hot Flashes Even If You're Nowhere Near Menopause
Sudden overheating can happen at any age, depending on other health concerns you may have.
Meet the Super Flasher: Some Menopausal Women Suffer Years of Hot Flashes
“It flies in the face of the traditional wisdom that women have these symptoms for three to five years around the final menstrual period,” she said. “We now know for most women that is patently wrong.”
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