Hot Flashes

Yoga for Hot Flashes

Amidst a flood of menopause therapies sworn to cast off hot flashes, yoga appears to deliver. We don't often think of it for this purpose, but this Eastern-based meditative practice that focuses on using both physical and mental discipline to improve health, might play a role in lessening the intensity of menopause's most notorious symptom.

When Menopause Pauses Learning

Ingrid Berman once said, "Happiness is good health and a bad memory," which sort of suggests that a healthy woman going through menopause (a time when memory seems muddiest) should be elated. And wouldn't it be wonderful if that were true--if hot flashes, sleep disturbances and sexual dysfunction could, in fact, brighten your day?

Alternative Ways to Deal with Menopause Symptoms

Hot Flashes, night sweats, trouble sleeping, vaginal dryness, and other symptoms can occur before or during the onset of Menopause.

Menopause for Men? A (Hormonal) Battle of the Sexes

Decreased libido, loss of bone mass, weight gain and hot flashes: all signs of menopause, even for men. You read right, that change in energy and even change in breast tissue isn’t entirely unique to aging women. Men also experience “the big change,” but in a less dramatic, less sudden kind of way.

Michelle King Robson: Night sweats and hot flashes—how my hormone imbalance led to night after night of drenched sheets

Have you ever heard the expression “men sweat, but women glow?”

Obviously, whoever coined that phrase wasn’t a woman dealing with menopause and night sweats.

Looking back, my night sweats were clearly part of my going through perimenopause in my early 40s. But at the time, neither my physician nor I were making that connection. He believed that it was a side effect of the medications I was taking for irritable bowel syndrome, also known as IBS.

Hot Flashes: Possible Causes and Possible Treatments: Editorial

Hot flashes are a common problem in many women. Although hormonal treatments, some newer antidepressants, gabapentin, and clonidine have been shown to decrease hot flashes,(1-4), improved treatment options are needed to provide substantial relief without unwanted risks or side effects. A better understanding of the physiology and measurement of hot flashes would expedite the development and testing of more effective treatment options.

Breast Cancer Surviviors Taking Tamoxifen Have Been Asked to Avoid Certain Anti-depressants

Anti-depressants are the most prescribed medication in the United States. So whenever there is new information about anti-depressants and drug reactions I like to get the word out to as many people as possible.