Category Archives: Hot Flashes
Eat Your Way out of Hot Flashes – Soy and Flaxseed – My Menopause – My Way
Okay! Here are the two “foods” you can add to your diet that may affect hot flashes. These are easily found and may be just the trick if you’re suffering with too much heat due to menopause or peri-menopause. Remember … Continue reading
Hot Flashes in Peri-Menopause / Menopause: My Top 5 OTC Supplements
In my previous blog post, Hot flashes: 5 Tips for Considering OTC Supplements, I provided you with tips for taking OTC supplements to improve your hot flashes. Now, I would like to discuss which supplements to take, the appropriate dosage, … Continue reading
Your Questions Answered: Estrogen
Why is estrogen given to women during menopause? How safe is estrogen? Does estrogen lower the risks of strokes and heart attacks? What are the over the counter alternatives to estrogen for hot flashes? Does the ‘kronos early intervention study’ … Continue reading
Hot Flashes: 5 Tips for Considering OTC Supplements
If hot flashes are making your life unbearable, OTC remedies may be a solution to consider. Over-the-counter supplements can provide non-estrogen relief for women experiencing premenopausal hot flashes but, like anything worthwhile, it takes some patience and commitment. That’s not … Continue reading
Hypnosis To Lower Hot Flashes
Hot flashes are never easy to treat, especially if you decide not to take estrogen and progesterone. And two recent possiblities for non-estrogen prescriptions failed to get FDA approval. Now a new study suggests that maybe all you need to … Continue reading
A Sad Day for Hot Flash Sufferers – FDA Fails Two Hot Flash Medicines
Monday the FDA failed to approve two new medications for hot flashes. The Advisers for the FDA felt the benefits did not sufficiently outweigh the risks. The first medication was for a drug made by Depomed Inc, which failed 12 to 2. … Continue reading
New Drug For Painful Sex
Tuesday February 26th the FDA approved a new drug for painful sex. It’s called Osphena and it is a selective estrogen receptor modulator or SERM. This medication is similar to other medications iof this type such as Tamoxifen and Raloxifene. … Continue reading
Perimenopause – When Menopause Symptoms Begin
National Menopause Awareness Month is here again and to honor it, I want to tell you how to know if menopause is near. You probably know about menopause. Menopause is defined by doctors as one year after your last period … Continue reading
Progesterone is an Estrogen Alternative for Hot Flashes
With so many concerns about estrogen and menopause, many women either won’t or can’t take it. That’s why I’ve offered progesterone as a possible option to women in menopause for years. I think the risks are less and it works … Continue reading
Some Night Sweats Aren’t Due to Menopause
Many women know that a flushing face and night sweats are a part of menopause. But menopause is not always the cause. Sometimes these nuisances are a symptom of something else. As a matter of fact, a wide range of … Continue reading
