I don't know if we are allowed to post links on here. But from the knowledge and experience of my doctor, and from so many things I have researched and read, the same receptors that are affected (which I cannot explain well) in hot flashes also affect receptors in the gut. I have a fascinating article that talks about the brain/gut connection, and also the fact that 80 or 90% of our serotonin receptors are in our gut. For me, disturbing my serotonin makes me so sick. And cramps. And nausea. The ebb and flow of the hormones, it seems, for certain women (I am one of them and you appear to be, too) have a HUGE effect on the functioning of the intestines, bowel, nausea, all that. When I don't have hot flashes, my bowel is very happy and relaxed. The second I start to get hot, my bowel starts to act up----although as FINALLY my estrogen level is getting back to where it was before I was forced off hormone replacement, things are getting better. It is a huge long story, but my doctor and I have weighed the risk/benefit on being on hormones versus having NO quality of life, NO sleep, nausea all day, no life----so I am back on a low dose hrt which does include progesterone since I still have a uterus. None of the thousands of supplements from vitamins to omegas to flaxseed to black cohosh---you name it, nothing helped me, and it ALL made me sick----and through my research I realize it is because all of those things mess with my serotonin---which is controlling the health of my gut---so all of the typical supplements do not help me----they just make me sick. The ONLY thing that helps is finally getting my estrogen levels back to where they need to be. Then I will stop having hot flashes, and then I will stop having gut issues. I am almost 63. I never had issues growing up with periods, never had PMS, never had bleeding and stuff while menopause was happening----NOTHING--but having to withdraw from hormone replacement suddenly over about two years ago sent my body into a tailspin from which I still am not recovered. Women need estrogen. We were never designed to live beyond menopause. I will shut up now.
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I don't know if we are allowed to post links on here. But from the knowledge and experience of my doctor, and from so many things I have researched and read, the same receptors that are affected (which I cannot explain well) in hot flashes also affect receptors in the gut. I have a fascinating article that talks about the brain/gut connection, and also the fact that 80 or 90% of our serotonin receptors are in our gut. For me, disturbing my serotonin makes me so sick. And cramps. And nausea. The ebb and flow of the hormones, it seems, for certain women (I am one of them and you appear to be, too) have a HUGE effect on the functioning of the intestines, bowel, nausea, all that. When I don't have hot flashes, my bowel is very happy and relaxed. The second I start to get hot, my bowel starts to act up----although as FINALLY my estrogen level is getting back to where it was before I was forced off hormone replacement, things are getting better. It is a huge long story, but my doctor and I have weighed the risk/benefit on being on hormones versus having NO quality of life, NO sleep, nausea all day, no life----so I am back on a low dose hrt which does include progesterone since I still have a uterus. None of the thousands of supplements from vitamins to omegas to flaxseed to black cohosh---you name it, nothing helped me, and it ALL made me sick----and through my research I realize it is because all of those things mess with my serotonin---which is controlling the health of my gut---so all of the typical supplements do not help me----they just make me sick. The ONLY thing that helps is finally getting my estrogen levels back to where they need to be. Then I will stop having hot flashes, and then I will stop having gut issues. I am almost 63. I never had issues growing up with periods, never had PMS, never had bleeding and stuff while menopause was happening----NOTHING--but having to withdraw from hormone replacement suddenly over about two years ago sent my body into a tailspin from which I still am not recovered. Women need estrogen. We were never designed to live beyond menopause. I will shut up now.
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