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Hot Flashes Why Me???


By Stacey Colino


Hot flashes may be the symptom most commonly associated with menopause but they’re hardly a universal experience. Not every woman gets them. Some do; others don’t. If you’re one of the unlucky ones, you may be wondering, WHY ME???


And as you may already know from personal experience‚ the intensity and frequency of hot flashes can range from uncomfortable but bearable to miserable and downright disruptive. “There’s great individual variation‚” says Isaac Schiff‚ MD‚ chief of the Vincent Obstetrics and Gynecology Service at Massachusetts General Hospital and the Joe Meigs Professor of Gynecology at Harvard Medical School in Boston. “Hot flashes tend to be most intense in the perimenopausal years when women start skipping periods‚ and are very severe when the ovaries are removed premenopausally. While most women will experience them for six months to two years‚ some women have hot flashes for decades‚ and that’s not abnormal.”


16 pause SPRING / SUMMER 2012


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