Menopause Night Sweats & Hot Flashes

Your choice, Night sweats, Hot Flashes or Heart Attacks

A decline in the use of hormone replacement therapy for menopause symptoms, hot flashes and night sweats,  since 2002 correlates to a reduction in heart attacks among U.S. women from more than 30% to less than 15%, a new study found. Investigators didn’t find a decrease in the rate of strokes, however. Health experts noted the reduced heart attack rate also could be attributed to better screening for heart disease risk factors and better awareness of a woman’s heart attack symptoms. Yahoo! (04/24)

Reduced HRT use linked to big drop in heart attacks

ANA SmartBrief | 04/27/2009

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Acupuncture not for Hot Flashes, back where we started

Acupuncture Not a Quick Fix for Hot Flashes

Ivanhoe Newswire If you’re looking for alternative treatments to get rid of hot flashes, acupuncture may not be the answer.

A new study from South Korea and the United Kingdom finds the ancient therapy is probably not effective at treating hot flashes during menopause.

Researchers reviewed six studies that looked at the use of acupuncture for relieving hot flashes during menopause. All the research tested the effects of real acupuncture against the effect of sham acupuncture. Only one of these studies showed a positive effect of the treatment on the frequency and severity of hot flashes.

Researchers caution the quality of even good studies is not always great. Because of this, they say the use of acupuncture cannot be completely ruled out. However, based on their review, they conclude acupuncture does not seem to be effective in treating menopausal hot flashes.

Lead researcher, Dr. Myeong Soo Lee, South Korea, was quoted as saying, “Although the availability of good Randomized Controlled Trials (RCT) is too small to draw any firm conclusion, in general the evidence from sham-controlled RCTs for the effects of acupuncture for treating menopausal hot flush is not convincing. We would always recommend that women wanting relief from menopausal symptoms consult their clinician before undertaking any course of treatment.”

SOURCE: Climacteric, 2009;12:1625-25

Damn I thought that was too good to be true.

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Mamas take mystery out of menopause

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Red Hot Mamas is a licensed menopause management education program that has been used in more than 80 menopause health care settings across the nation and started at Alton hospital in January.Turnout and excitement for the monthly meetings have far exceeded the hospital staff’s expectations, said organizer Susan Means, a labor and delivery nurse. For the first meeting, 50 women showed up. Last month, the number was 97.”I’m shocked by the response,” Means said. “Whatever topic, they always have questions. And they always stay after to talk to the speaker one-on-one.”

04/30/2009 – Red Hot Mamas takes mystery out of menopause – STLtoday.com

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Can Hot Flashes Mean Heart Trouble?

Hot Flashes and Heart trouble. One of the most surprising findings of this study was that older women who still have significant hot flashes turned out to be the hormone-therapy users who were at greater risk for heart disease. Can you explain this?This was an unexpected finding. We knew that there were increased risks for older women using hormone therapy from the original WHI studies, but when we did a sub-analysis of the older women who were still getting hot flashes and night sweats, we were rather surprised to find …..

Can Hot Flashes Mean Heart Trouble? | Newsweek Health | Newsweek.com

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Interview on menopause, night sweats and more

Marcia Jones was online to discuss Menopause night sweats with your questions about women’s health and stages of menopause and night sweats and how it can affect your body, your emotions, and your libido.

Fairfax, Va.: My mother (56) is having a terrible time with menopause right now. She has horrendous night sweats. However, if the night sweats do not come (which seems to vary hormonally) her blood pressure skyrockets to 160-180/100+. She is on many different medications for her blood pressure and on phosamax for bone degeneration, but refuses to go on hormone replacement therapy because she has three female cousins who after going on the therapy developed breast cancer, one of whom just passed away this weekend. My mother and I are both only daughters so we have no other history to look at but her cousins. I guess my question is since I am her only daughter – is this what I have to look forward to in about 20 years? (I’m 33 now)

Women’s Health and Menopause (washingtonpost.com)

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Hot flashes and Night sweats a Good Sign for Breast Cancer Patients

The 37.5 percent of women who reported hot flashes and night sweats at the three-month follow-up visit a lower breast cancer recurrence rate than women who didn’t report hot flashes and night sweats (23 percent). The 31.4 percent of women who reported new joint symptoms at the follow-up visit had a 14 percent rate of cancer recurrence, compared to 23 percent for those who didn’t report new joint symptoms.

Hot Flashes, Night Sweats a Good Sign for Breast Cancer Patients – Forbes.com

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Depression more common during menopause

Women with bipolar disorder who are going through the menopause are more likely to experience depressive symptoms than men or younger women,  no menopause, with the disorder, results of a US study show. (Source: MedWire News – Consumer Health)
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Two shall become one Menopause included

Menopause in the Ozarks

Oh, I saw a few articles on menopause, dry skin, exercising; mostly they were about losing weight. I kept my weight down, exercised, had a very mild menopause, so I never read about the ravages of aging – dark skin spots, hanging and falling skin, sagging, drooping.No one prepared me for old age. Where were all the books on aging with I was getting there?

NWAnews.com :: Northwest Arkansas’ News Source

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” Menopause ” doesn’t pretend to plow

Menopause the Musical is well worth the visit. It is now showing in Long Island, So bring your night sweat and hot flash friends and enjoy the show.

‘Menopause the Musical’ is no flash in the pan

The Silver Spring performer plays Earth Mother, a vegan who gets through life by meditating. Accompanied by actresses playing a professional woman, a soap opera star and an Iowa housewife, the four strangers meet while fighting over a black brassiere in the lingerie department at Bloomingdale’s in New York City. Within minutes of meeting, the women are commiserating about hot flashes, their girlish figures morphing from shapely hourglasses to chunky water glasses and their propensity to pop Prozac.

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Lowered HRT led to fewer heart attacks

WASHINGTON: With decline in the use of hormone replacement therapy (HRT) to treat menopause symptoms, the rate of myocardial infarctions, or heart attacks, has also dropped, a new study has found.
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