Hot flashes and night sweats?

[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.

[WPW717]

Which part of the world are you in ?

I am in PNW USA, and am on Medicare now so things happen too slowly

I would embrace a conversation with the Endocrinologist but appointments with specialists are slow to occur and so is the ordered testing

The hot flashes were increasing magnitude and frequency and the next appointment is in December

The gynecomastia is not as bothersome as the hot flashes that drown my hearing aids
Needed to get a handle on this sooner rather than later

[oldguy]

Which part of the world are you in ?

I am in PNW USA, and am on Medicare now so things happen too slowly

I would embrace a conversation with the Endocrinologist but appointments with specialists are slow to occur and so is the ordered testing

The hot flashes were increasing magnitude and frequency and the next appointment is in December

The gynecomastia is not as bothersome as the hot flashes that drown my hearing aids
Needed to get a handle on this sooner rather than later

I live in PNW USA.  Also on Medicare.  Understand.  Interesting that both my wife and I are experiencing hot flushes, not flashes, in our middle 70's.  I think it is our medications.  Hers are are worse than mine.  Haven't had any problems with hearing aids, yet.  I will be in Alaska for 3 weeks in September.  It will be interesting how I deal with this in the cool weather.

[WPW717]

Good luck in AK

Mine were definitely flashes

In my mid 70s too

[Justagirl💃]

Which part of the world are you in ?

I am in PNW USA, and am on Medicare now so things happen too slowly

I would embrace a conversation with the Endocrinologist but appointments with specialists are slow to occur and so is the ordered testing

The hot flashes were increasing magnitude and frequency and the next appointment is in December

The gynecomastia is not as bothersome as the hot flashes that drown my hearing aids
Needed to get a handle on this sooner rather than later

I live in PNW USA.  Also on Medicare.  Understand.  Interesting that both my wife and I are experiencing hot flushes, not flashes, in our middle 70's.  I think it is our medications.  Hers are are worse than mine.  Haven't had any problems with hearing aids, yet.  I will be in Alaska for 3 weeks in September.  It will be interesting how I deal with this in the cool weather.

I keep my house at 73 degrees, and even at those temps a hot flash will leave me pouring down sweat to the point my hair mats against my scalp. 
I believe that it's internal, and the outside temperatures have little to do with it. 

[Gotboobs]

I’m glad for the most part mine are gone. Hope to never get them back!