Hot Flushes

@youngdogmum What a good bloke he is! My stepson is 31 and when he shaves his beard off he always gets asked for ID. So funny! :D K xox

That's excellent @Lynn65. You always read in the pamphlets that exercise helps. Good to hear from someone who's experienced the effect! K xox

I’m on tamoxifen and did respond to the Melbourne trial, but had to wait a couple of months due to other commitments before meeting up with the researcher.  I tracked my hot flushes prior to responding, and I was hitting the study required level of 50+ moderate / severe a week.  

However, between signing up and meeting the researcher, I was in a hot climate for 3 weeks and had panic-inducing swelling in the breast.  I couldn’t walk because of the heat, so I swam every day bar one for three weeks.  

I kept it up when I got home, as it certainly helped (the swelling is completely gone now although sometimes I still feel a bit funny there, so keeping on with exercise and medical fabric mobiderm for edema).  However, when I went in to meet the researcher and I did the test run of tracking my hot flushes, I only had 37 per week of moderate / severe.  

I hadn’t realised it, but the exercise seems to be helping my hot flushes.   It isn’t a cure though - I’ve been doing a ridiculous amount of exercise in order to improve my body’s ability to regulate blood pressure so it doesn’t go low (that’s working fine!)  and I still do get hot flushes, just not as many and not as severe.   

I hope that they can get good results from the trial - fingers crossed. 

Oops @kmakm  thought I'd replied. He's going to reshave when mine starts regrowing for encouragement. He misses his long hair though, plus he keeps getting asked for ID now 😂

I don’t know if this would help you ladies but I took a very very low dose antidepressant called Endep 10mg and it really helped with hot flushes and sleep.I had no side effects and it was the only way I got through 4yrs of Tamoxifen.

Save on hot water?

SO weird

Having a hot flush in the shower is always interesting.

Oh they so suck don't they @JulieVT11? Much of my winter wardrobe has been rendered useless. Some mornings the mere thought of getting dressed gives me a hot flush...

I so wish they would run this trial in Brisbane, I would be first in the queue to sign up.  Thought the hot flushed would be easier to cope with in winter but they have gotten worse - more of them, horrible night sweats now and seem to last longer.  I cant even stand to wear winter clothese/long sleeves.  Only 4.5 years to go .....