Hot flashes and night sweats?

[p.r.1974]

I will see how it goes with the flax seed. I sometimes sweat at night, but I have not noticed hot flashes in general. I took some last night and tonight, and didn't sweat last night. I am not sure if it was just incidental, but we shall see.

[Brdy64]

I will see how it goes with the flax seed. I sometimes sweat at night, but I have not noticed hot flashes in general. I took some last night and tonight, and didn't sweat last night. I am not sure if it was just incidental, but we shall see.

Hope it works out for you. I'm getting great results, and my daughter swears by it as well. 
I used to get several hot flashes a day, and night sweats every night. Now I'm completely clear, as long as I don't forget my smoothie. 😉

[Brdy64]

Flaxseed is working well for me. 
I also find I have much more energy now, and I'm sleeping less. 
I feel great, like I haven't felt in years. 👍

Bras are too tight and getting tighter. Oh well 🙄

[Brdy64]

I'm taking a total of 4 tablespoons per day, so I am talking quite a bit. 
It's packed full of phytoestrogens, so I'm really packing them into my system. It's all good, as long as the hot flashes don't come back. I don't mind the estrogen. 😉

[Brdy64]

Hi guys and Gals, 

Just an update on my Flaxseed smoothies. The high phytoestrogen levels are really helping me. My doctor said not to exceed 4 tablespoons per day, but I have had a few very mild hot flashes at that dose. 
I am going to increase my dose to 6 tablespoons per day to see if that helps. 
My body is craving the estrogen, I'll give it what it wants. 

Thank God those knee buckling hot flashes and night sweats are over. The couple I have had were barely noticeable. 
The girls will appreciate the extra estrogen as well. 

Night y'all 

[Brdy64]

The science is in, I missed my Flaxseed smoothie dose this morning. Oh wow am I having a hot flash!
I really haven't had much of them until this morning when I missed it.

I take 3 tablespoons twice a day. It is insanely high in phytoestrogen. 😉

It works wonders when you remember to take it. 🙆‍♀️

[Brdy64]

At my doctor's appointment yesterday my hormone levels were mentioned again. They are going to draw blood next Monday to review them again. 
The doctor suggested possibly HRT, and I refused testosterone treatments. The only other solution he had to my hot flashes was a prescription to "birth control pills"?

That might be interesting. I did tell him I have been taking large amounts of flax seed, and it does work. You know doctors, they would rather throw prescriptions at you. 

[taxmapper]

Well once the dust settles on the insurance switch, Ill try again to find a primary. 
(haven't had one in about 25 years.) 


There are other things I am finding out about myself, and outside that I have a full working male side of things, I still cant get past the internal desires that I have felt all my life. 
They are odd sensations to say the least. 

If they were to tell me to go on HRT, Id ask.. which way? 

[Brdy64]

I still cant get past the internal desires that I have felt all my life.
They are odd sensations to say the least.

If they were to tell me to go on HRT, Id ask.. which way?

Internal desires were quite the struggle for me all my life. 🙄
They still are as I try and figure out where they fit in my new leaf.

When HRT was mentioned I refused testosterone before the doctor even mentioned it. 🤣

After some thought he brought up birth control. I'm sure he wasn't thinking about estrogen at first. 🤔

[WPW717]

Have started the flaxseed route 
After one week no noticeable relief from the hot flashes 
‘Will endeavor to persevere’ as the line goes but I am not going to hold my breath  
Had my endocrinologist appointment 
now a whole new raft of test to complete… same diagnosis of hypogonadism but I did get a “ I have never seen such a rapid and deep loss of testosterone “ 
She seemed to not understand that the constant hot flashes are what I want relief from, not the gynecomastia 

Regards, Bob 

[Brdy64]

Have started the flaxseed route
After one week no noticeable relief from the hot flashes
‘Will endeavor to persevere’ as the line goes but I am not going to hold my breath 
Had my endocrinologist appointment
now a whole new raft of test to complete… same diagnosis of hypogonadism but I did get a “ I have never seen such a rapid and deep loss of testosterone “
She seemed to not understand that the constant hot flashes are what I want relief from, not the gynecomastia

Regards, Bob

Amazing that the 6 tablespoons per day of flax seed I'm taking really works for me.
I do hope your doctor figures out something to help you out. 
Those hot flashes are not fun, and I wouldn't wish them on my worst enemy. 

The whole thing is caused by hormones being out of whack, she will just have to try and get them leveled out. 

[WPW717]

Flaxseed failure after 4 weeks

Tried TCM with kwao krua and hot flashes gone in 2 days

It’s a phytoestrogen

Yea … they were killing my hearing aids frequently All gone now

[gotgyne]

From memory:

Over 65
Hypertension
History of cancer
MEN ( multiple endocrine neoplasia)
Previous cardiac events ie. heart attack or stroke
Known risk factors for vascular morbidities ie. high cholesterol or hereditary markers for heart disease
And now for the oddball : hypospadia

Go figure on that one

Regards, Bob

The last one, hypospadia, is not that uncommon. In fact the numbers of boys with this condition is growing, be it because of environmental chemicals or the influence of estrogen. There are a lot of young women who use birth control pills and older women who get estrogen to alleviate symptoms of menopause. Their urine contains minimal parts of estrogen that the waterworks can't filter out. Most people don't know that there is always some small amount of estrogen in tap water.
I like the approach of bioethicist and professor of clinical medical humanities and bioethics at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine Alice Dreger who wrote the article in the second link "Do you have to pee standing up to be a real man?". She suggests to wait with surgery in cases of hypospadia until the boys are grown up and can decide by themselves. Meanwhile, if they really want to pee standing they could use the same device femals use to pee standing.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2829027/Shockingly-common-cruel-birth-defect-thousands-men-have.html
https://psmag.com/social-justice/pee-standing-real-man-73133

[WPW717]

More testing and scans are done
I can now add MEN to my database

High normal calcium and an excess calcium dump from a 24 hr urine spells parathyroid adenoma. Confirming this was a nuclear medicine scan. It’s on the left lower pole… surgery this fall to correct the problem before it causes bone density loss

As it has been said’ growing old is not for sissies’ .

[gotgyne]

In my language is the saying "growing old is not for cowards". Often people with low bone density had to take oral cortisone for a long time. I know a woman who had to take it for pulmonary emphysema. Her spine became such brittle that she had to wear a back brace or rather a real corset for some years before she died.
I take low dose estrogen (a bioidentical estrogen cream) for other reasons since two deacdes and have no problems with bone density so far.