Difference btwn hotflashes

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windsor
windsor Member Posts: 43
edited June 2014 in Canadians Affected by Breast Cancer
Difference btwn hotflashes
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  • windsor
    windsor Member Posts: 43
    edited March 2008

    Is there a difference between hot flashes from normal menopuase than hot flashes you get due to chemo that puts you into menopause. Does that make sense?

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  • phoenix54
    phoenix54 Member Posts: 223
    edited April 2008

    hi Windsor

    i don't know the answer to that but i am sure somone will be along who does.



    my dr said seemed to differentiate between hot flashes and "flushes" . one builds up from the inside out - i think it was the flush. mine seem to just affect the torso and face and arms - waist up. i timed it and they take about 3 0 - 60 seconds to start and about 3 - 4 minutes in length

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  • Pauline3837
    Pauline3837 Member Posts: 39
    edited April 2008

    Hi Windsor,

    If your handle has anything to do with where you live, I too live in Windsor.

    I'm a 5 year survivor.   Prior to dx, I was post menopausal and suffered from severe hot flashes and night sweats and was taking Hormone Replacements. (which I believe caused my cancer)

    After chemo, rads and arimidex, I still suffer from hot flashes.

    They are one and the same before and after chemo.... and they feel like heat building from the inside out and and any moment I'm going to spontaniously cumbust.  hahaha.   Thankfully they pass quick enough.

    Good luck to you....keep ice cold water close by, a window open in Winter or the air conditioning as cold as you can get it in the bedroom in summer.  (My husband complains that our bedroom is as cold as a cold storage locker) Wink

    They are not fun

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  • windsor
    windsor Member Posts: 43
    edited April 2008

    Thanks Pauline.  I do live in Windsor.  I was diagnosed in Feb 2007,  surgery March and finished my chemo in July2007.  I was pre menopausal but was put into menopause with the chemo.  I was on tamoxifen from Aug 2007 till Mar 2008 and then my dictor switched me to aromasin.  She thinks I may already have been into menopause.   I am taking gabapentin for my hot flashes but it is not really working for me very well.  The nights are the worse.  I find it really hard when I am working and I start to sweat .  I am just tired of it and I am at my wits end.  Do you take anything for your hot flashes or have you tried anything?  I do find that keeping my house cold really helps . 

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  • Tigwin
    Tigwin Member Posts: 275
    edited April 2008

    Windsor..why do you take gabapentin for hot flashes?  Isn't that a pain medication?

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