What Are Hot Flashes?
A hot flash is a sudden feeling of great heat, accompanied by a very flushed and often sweating face and/or body. Your hot flash may be accompanied by or followed by having a rapid heart rate or chills.
What Are Night Sweats?
Night sweats are intense hot flashes that cause sweating at night. They can be extremely uncomfortable and interfere with sleep. You may wake up drenched in sweat — sometimes to the point where you will have to get up and change your nightwear and even your sheets.
What Is Periomenopause?
- Perimenopause is the time of transition from when you stop having your period to when you enter menopause. Eastern Medicine sees this as normal condition in a woman’s early 50s.
- What Is Early Menopause?
- Periomenopause-like symptoms can start several years before actual menopause and can even start in your 30s or 20s — especially if you have been through fertility treatments. There is a natural response to the intensity of the treatments (using energy, blood, and fluids). Eastern Medicine is famous for reversing the symptoms. It takes time, but the body will be renewing and then responding like a younger body (Epigenetics).
What Causes Hot Flashes?
According to Western Medicine:
- Hot flashes are an inevitable part of menopause and perimenopause
- As your estrogen drops, the part of your brain that regulates your body temperature (the hypothalamus) can begin to malfunction, which causes your body to overheat.
- Eating disorders
- Genetic disorders
- The exact reason may be unknown
According to Eastern Medicine:
Hot Flashes are not considered an inevitable symptom of menopause. Menopause is expected without hot flashes. So if they do show up, there are protocols to resolve them.
If you have hot flashes, the goal is not just to eliminate them, but to help your body find balance and then keep that flash-free balance with minimal ongoing maintenance.
Eastern Medicine does not treat hormones. Hormonal changes are side benefits. The focus is to find balance. Eastern Medicine looks at the body from a holistic perspective.
Analyzing your symptoms, Eastern Medicine identifies the source of the weaknesses.
Here are some obvious signs. All of these you can resolve yourself with professional support and guidance.
These are the weaknesses that can lead to hot flashes, painful sex, “early menopause,” and emotional imbalance.
- Your energy is depleted. This can be due to years of achievements and a high-stress lifestyle.
- Blood deficiency (Not bad enough to test as anemic, but there are specific signs signaling that you need more high quality well-oxygenated blood.)
- Low sexual fluids (This is the signal that all fluids in your reproductive system : sexual fluids, cervical mucus, even the critical fluids in your ovaries.)
Fertility Drugs and Hot Flashes
Hot flashes can be unrelated to menopause. Instead they can be activated by Assisted Reproductive Treatments which don’t allow recovery times between treatments. Oral or injected fertility drugs are still the main Western treatment for women who have issues with ovulation. These include Clomid and Serophene (brand names for clomiphene citrate).
Can you guess what one of the side effects of these treatments can be? You got it — hot flashes! Another can be lack of cycle.
What Is The Solution For Hot Flashes?
According to Western Medicine:
According to Western Medicine, hot flashes cannot be prevented altogether unless you take hormone replacement treatment (HRT). However, HRT is not suitable for all women, so be advised by your doctor.
Health care practitioners will treat with one of the following:
- Prescription Drug Treatments
- Low-dose depression drugs like fluoxetine (Prozac), paroxetine (Paxil), or venlafaxine (Effexor)
- Clonidine, a blood pressure medication
- Gabapentin, an anti-seizure drug
- Brisdelle, a paroxetine formula specifically for hot flashes
- Duavee, a conjugated estrogens/bazedoxifene formula
- Non-prescription Treatments
- B Complex
- Vitamin E
- Ibuprofen
According to Eastern Medicine:
- Eastern Medicine recognizes that every woman is unique, and so each woman is diagnosed and treated as an individual — not a statistic.
- The solution involves special herbal formulas and adherence to a targeted program based on the self-care branch of Eastern Medicine.
This holistic approach and includes special herbal formulas rich in phytoestrogens and blood-building herbs, foods that support a healthy cycle, special exercises focusing on building energy, emotional balance, and using a special Result Tracker Program that allows you to adjust your program with professional guidance as your symptoms change.
