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Study: Hot flashes can last for 14 years
Video taken from the channel: CBS Evening News
Anatomy of a Hot Flash | Dr. Lloyd G. Wright
Video taken from the channel: Stellar Physical Medicine
Hot Flashes and Your Heart 2/25/2011
Video taken from the channel: ABC News
Women’s Wellness: Do hot flashes indicate heart disease?
Video taken from the channel: Mayo Clinic
TSECs—A New Treatment for Hot Flashes and Night Sweats
Video taken from the channel: MenopauseSociety
Managing Hot Flashes
Video taken from the channel: Cone Health
Hormones, Hot Flashes & Hysteria Healthy Head to Toe Series: Menopause
Video taken from the channel: Legacy Health
Hot flashes are no joke when they leave you soaked in sweat and feeling dazed. Technically, hot flashes exaggerate how the body normally cools down: blood vessels dilate, letting more blood reach. Help me understand what is actually going on in my body during a hot flash. It feels like a lot is happening.
Your hypothalamus—the part of your brain responsible for regulating body temperature (along with appetite, sleep cycles and hormones)—detects hormonal shifts and goes on alert, thinking that you’re overheating. Let’s have a look at the series of events that cause a hot flash. Your brain thinks that your body is too hot, even if you are not. The process by which your body cools itself (sweating) is initiated.
Blood vessels dilate to allow your blood to reach the surface of your skin. Your skin temperature rises and you feel hot. Your body gets a sudden, intense surge of warmth; sometimes skin turns red and blotchy. Your skin temperature climbs, beginning at the top third of your body (your face, head and chest). Blood vessels begin to dilate.
Your body struggles to regulate and reduce its temperature and cool off by perspiring. While nobody actually knows the mechanism for a hot flash, we do know that there is an area in the brain called the hypothalamus that regulates body temperature. For whatever reason, during the transition through perimenopause and menopause, the hypothalamus sends signals that cause women to get hot.
Anatomy of a Hot Flash Posted onJanuary 14, 2015December 14, 2016by partner Do your hot flashes make you feel like your body is a five-alarm fire? Hot flashes can be so strong that women have been known to stand in front of the refrigerator with the door open or even stick their head in the freezer!Find out how hot flashes happen, and what’s going on in your brain and body during a hot flash. Here, the anatomy of a hot flash.
Medically Reviewed by Rosalyn Carson-DeWitt, MD. Last Update. Physiology of hot flashes Hot flashes are the most common symptom of the climacteric, although prevalence estimates are lower in some rural and non-Western areas. The symptoms are characteristic of a heat-dissipation response and consist of sweating on the face, neck, and chest, as well as peripheral vasodilation.
It’s a sudden feeling of heat and sometimes a red, flushed face and sweating. We don’t know exactly what causes them, but they may be related to changes in circulation. Hot flashes start when blood. A hot flash, or vasomotor flush, is when your brain mistakenly thinks your body is overheated and starts a chain reaction to try to cool it down.
This is probably caused by changes in hormone levels as you approach menopause.
List of related literature:
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| from The Slow Moon Climbs: The Science, History, and Meaning of Menopause | |
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| from Williams Textbook of Endocrinology | |
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| from Textbook of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery | |
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| from Encyclopedia of Women and Gender, Two-Volume Set: Sex Similarities and Differences and the Impact of Society on Gender | |
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| from Nuts and Seeds in Health and Disease Prevention | |
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| from Obstetrics and Gynecology at a Glance | |
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| from Andreoli and Carpenter’s Cecil Essentials of Medicine E-Book | |
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| from The Reproductive System at a Glance | |
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| from Ferri’s Clinical Advisor 2019 E-Book: 5 Books in 1 | |
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| from Medical Neurobiology |
Thanks for this info….its straight to the point….many times I see these videos about hot flashes it takes ages to get to the point…. blessings…..this too will pass….IN JESUS NAME
OR YOUR like me where I was plunged into it abrutly because all my female parts turned into horrific month long painful tumors….. i started having issues a good year before i lost it all… and i was not told anything i was not told any information i had no idea how aweful menopause does… the hot flashes mod swings the horrid episodes you think your part of the exocist… they dont tell you how long it lasts for years and its even worse for people who are not done with it naturally like i dunno 35… they can last for a few seconds where your on fire then your freezing… but it can also last hours for me…. the hot flashes are the most infuriating and god does it disrupt sleep it comes in cycles.. i have no way to treat it… im just now full blown into it in the first few years… and when i asked for help for sleep i was given terrible anti depressants for off label use traznadone and a god dang anti psychothic!!!!!!!!!! called seroquel!!!!!!!!!! what the mcfuck the beer I drink is better than the horrific side effects the other one has… its also off label which means its not meant for that…. as for sex.. sigh.. i want it so bad i have times where i want to but i get utis or yeast infection and if i try to have my jonsin fun it hurts like heck… it sucks so muuuuuuuuuch.. meh have viagra.. its easy for them… but women… this… sucks… its why im single… lol good luck finding a man that can handle this powder keg… i have have had all of this… this… is the first time i found a true video that explains it.. when i first had menopause i didnt know what was wrong with me……this.. explains everything.. i wish i had found you a few years ago!!!
I’m going on 24 years of hot flashes and her description doesn’t even touch how miserable these things can be. The biggest help comes from bio identical hrt with small doses of testosterone and SSRI’s. Sweets and high carb meals make them especially severe and more frequent.������
I am lost. I don’t have anymore sex drive. And dryer Vaginal.please tell me what I can do. Fix it i have all of it. And I am losing my boyfriend. We have not had anymore sexual
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True but It’s also to do with magnesium deficiencies as well as other things, google Dr Carolyn Dean, on one of her you tubes she talks about magnesium and hot flushes as she had problems with hot flushes. As soon as I started using her products the hot flushes disappeared and I also used these natural patches which has helped me with lots of other health problems as well, phew no more horrible hot flushes.
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To any women out there suffering from hot flashes and night sweats due to perimenopause:
Try “OMAD” (which means “one meal a day”) and eliminating caffeine and alcohol! It really does wonders. It took me about a week and now I have zero issues with hot flashes etc, it’s all GONE.
OMAD works for me (and I’m currently experimenting with TMAD, which means “two meals a day”), maybe it can help you too.
In my own experience fasting is amazing and incredibly beneficial.
But I recommend you do some research on it yourself before you try so you know what to expect and what happens in your body etc.
I’m not an expert and I don’t have any medical background, I’m just sharing what has worked for me so you have to do your own experimenting and research to find out what works for you.
And if it works for you too, consider ‘liking’ this comment or leave a comment on it so that other women can be inspired by your experiences as well! ��
I call them “heart flashes”……. tachycardia waking me in the middle of the night. what fun 😉 Had heart checked…everything ok.
Dr. Virginia San Miguel & Megan Bird have a very bad case of hormonal imbalance, yet teaching people about hormonal imbalance?
They know the theory very well, alright, that’s about it
Hot flashes!!!!!!!!! Kills me ������I’m a front line health care worker and as soon as I put on my PPE here comes my deadly hot flashes!!! I feel like that I’m inside an oven. All night long me and my husband has the debate. I turn on the AC and the fan but I’m still sweating and my husband is freezing �� I’m having my private summer all day long. So I started consuming flax seeds and hope it’s going to work for me. So ladies good luck! Let’s face this crisis ��
To any women out there suffering from hot flashes and night sweats due to perimenopause:
Try “OMAD” (which means “one meal a day”) and eliminating caffeine and alcohol! It really does wonders. It took me about a week and now I have zero issues with hot flashes etc, it’s all GONE.
OMAD works for me (and I’m currently experimenting with TMAD, which means “two meals a day”), maybe it can help you too.
In my own experience fasting is amazing and incredibly beneficial.
But I recommend you do some research on it yourself before you try so you know what to expect and what happens in your body etc.
I’m not an expert and I don’t have any medical background, I’m just sharing what has worked for me so you have to do your own experimenting and research to find out what works for you.
And if it works for you too, consider ‘liking’ this comment or leave a comment on it so that other women can be inspired by your experiences as well! ��
My hot flashes lasted for gosh like five hours for seven years give or take, but guess what it was actually a heart attack. 70% blockage right coronary artery… Stent put in three days I was released from hospital and I actually felt that negative energy a hot/mold actually leave my body it was the most euphoric feeling ever. So now I’ll be one year heart attack survivor come March 2020 will be 57 years old and might now I’m having a hot flash Like not before so this is a different type of hot flash for me now is more controllable flash but it’s not consistent like before I hope it stops soon I’m tired of those my depression is worse my libido nonexisting for a very long time even before menopause so that’s another issue… one day at a time
I’m sorry but this is not good advice. I take cool to cold showers. I never eat spicy food. I wear shorts and tank cotton tops. I take Hormone replacement therapy. I take gabapentin. I take ssri cymbalta. I live in Seattle where it’s cool and cloudy and I’m drowning in sweat every hour.. help me!!
Dr Megan Bird: “Everyone over 40 should have lubricants in their house.”
Not true.
Many people I know do not need lubricant. also water is a lubricant, which we all already have
And this is a doctor?
I am post menopausal for years due to surgery and I was on Ambien because I don’t sleep and I might as well get on LSD! I am on nothing at all and I don’t sleep but two hours and I am a mess. The cancer I had was in my bladder they remove my bladder and gave me a ileostomy but during the surgery they gave me a hysterectomy although I did not have any cancer in my female organs they found out after testing them after they were out of my body so now that I am 60 this happened in 2008 it is now 2020 and I am miserable and have been for years. Has anybody had any luck with sleeping? I am getting my medical marijuana card so I can takeEdible marijuana to sleep not to get stone it’s proven to work because I know I’ve tried it but now I have a medical marijuana card that I have to renew and it does work but they did not mention this at all! My doctor actually gave me a prescription for medical marijuana but he would not give me a prescription for estrogen because he did not want me to have an increased risk of breast cancer.
Hello pumpkins, ��
Just so you know I have some tips
1. Cool baths/showers
2. Place ice pack behind neck
3. Ice pack underneath both arm pits
4. Ice pack on wrist
5. Suck on ice chips
6. it’s imperative be hydrated drink you’ll have to add more h20 to diet during hot flashes
replenish h20 loss during hot flashes
7. Advisable use cotton sheets as cotton absorb sweat wick sweat away from body.
8. Use cool, not cold h20 drench hair use Cotton towel absorb h20
9. While hair wet sit in front of fan, turn as back to fan
Works wonders
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I just turned 51 and I want my cycle back….never thought I’d ever say something so insidious. These hot flashes are 45 minutes to an hour apart all day and night��.
I began my hotflashes one year ago. They can be pretty miserable. The other might I had such bad ones that it brought me to tears! Last night, I didn’t get to sleep until 7 am. I combatted the flashes for FIVE hours. It was bad.
I describe it as drinking a very hot bowl of soup and the heat just radiates from your head, neck and chest.
Gud morning Ma’am… My grandmother is 83y.o. already,.. She is high blood with type 2 diabetes… Almost every night she feels extremely hot flashes then after she will chill pls. Tell me what to do….
For soy to work for Hormone imbalance it has to be fermented.
https://juveriente.com/japanese-menopause-relief/
Unbelievable that none of these doctors do not know while Japan always ranks within the 10 healthiest countries on earth. Japan having the highest number of centenaries per capita, and Japanese human having menopause later in life and a easier experience.
The link above explains what’s the form of soy helps with hormonal imbalance for women, and men.
What do you mean by hot flashes?? Feeling always hot everyday and night?? The body temperature is always hot?? Please anyone, i just want to be clear with the words HOT FLASHES..
I too is having Hot Flashes and have been for roughly 7 years. I have 5 sisters but myself and the 3rd oldest have them severe. I could say most days it is awful. But it is every day and night, awful. The only time I had some relief was when I had a procedure called Hormone Pelleting. It did work for me with no known side effects. But I have moved away from the area/city where it was performed. So, now I am suffering as well as my husband. But he tries help!
No soy consumption is mandatory for good health during menopause. No soy, no cows milk and no French fries or soda. Moringa powder and teas are great for PMS and menopause issues. It is packed with minerals such as iron and zinc and magnesium. It helps to restore good health in a woman when she is having menopause issues and PMS symptoms. Minerals are used in the body to stabilize the body.
Im 47 in a month, have periods every 30 days 1 month, next 2 weeks late sometimes, did sono. All uterus and ovaries are healthy.
Im getying hot glushes often, and sores on the dide of my tongue.
Should i be concerned?
A woman’s life is coursed, i have experienced fainting, serious back pain and serious cervical pain and temporary paralysis during my cycle. Now i am over 40 and experiencing night sweats. I came across a great Herbalist who recommended Moringa droplets and powders. It is all natural and packed with minerals such as iron and zinc and magnesium. Minerals helps with digestion and reducing hormonal imbalances in a womans body. No soy or caffeine in moringa.
Different chronic disease like heart failures do exist especially after menopause. Thanks for sharing this video. It’s informative.