any reason a 30- y/o would be having hot flashes?
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I get them all the time when i am pre-menstrural- right before my period, and my mum gets them too. It is caused by hormones surging through your body. It is perfectly normal, don't worry.
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If your hormones are out of whack,  Your period will tell the tale.\nI would tell your doctor that you want answers.  You could be early menopause.  \nDid your mom or dad's mom have early menopause?\nI WOULD NOT sit by and be passive about this. \n \nTell the doctors you want answers.  Be even more aggressive if they are men.\n\nI hope they checked the thyroid.  I hoped they checked your ovaries.  I hope they did a bunch of blood work to test levels of all the chemicals in your blood.  \n\nAre you taking anything that could cause this?  a possible side affect.  Maybe your birthcontrol is the wrong dose if you take any.\n\nGood luck and bless.
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menopause brought on by your op, its quite common for it to happen
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You have severe hot flashes?\n\nBreast cancer runs in your family?\n\nAnd you have a fear of pharmacies?\n\numm... okay...\n\nWhat's the question?
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The major symptoms of menopause are:\n\n    * missed periods\n    * sleep disturbances\n    * hot flashes\n    * vaginal dryness\n    * changes in mood\n    * lack of sex drive\n\nEach of these symptoms are a result of hormonal changes. Hot flashes are caused by an increase of blood flow in the blood vessels of the face, neck, chest and back. Vaginal dryness is caused by thinning of the tissues of the vaginal wall, are the two side effects most frequently complained about. The mood changes and lack of sex drive may result partially from the hormone decrease, but may also result from having to deal with hot flashes and vaginal dryness.
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Oh, don't be embarassed!! It's a very normal thing to be concerned about.\n\nMenopause occurs as the ovaries stop producing estrogen, causing the reproductive system to gradually shut down. As the body adapts to the changing levels of natural hormones, vasomotor symptoms such as hot flashes and palpitations, psychological symptoms such as increased depression, anxiety, irritability, mood swings and lack of concentration, and atrophic symptoms such as vaginal dryness and urgency of urination appear. Together with these symptoms, the woman may also have increasingly scanty and erratic menstrual periods.\n\nTechnically, menopause refers to the cessation of menses; whereas the gradual process through which this occurs, which typically takes a year but may last as little as six months or more than five years, is known as climacteric. \n\nThe average onset of menopause is 50.5 years, but some women enter menopause at a younger age. Perimenopause refers to the time preceding menopause, during which the production of hormones such as estrogen and progesterone diminishes and becomes more irregular. During this period fertility diminishes. Menopause is arbitrarily defined as a minimum of twelve months without menstruation. Perimenopause can begin as early as age 35, although it usually begins much later. It can last for a few months or for several years. The duration of perimenopause cannot be predicted in advance.\n\nMedical treatments for menopausal symptoms have been developed. Most notably, Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT), has been used to reduce the weakening of bones (known as osteoporosis). However, some women have resisted the implication that menopause is a disorder, seeing it as a natural stage of life. There has also been scientific controversy over whether the benefits of HRT outweigh the risks. \n\nIt should be bearable, if not, see your doctor. I've found studies that show a relationship between your mother's menopause and yours. I was told that the age your mother started her menses determined the age you got yours, but that frequently isn't true.\n\nAll the best
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Me...going though the change...hot flashes don't cha know!\n\nLOL\n\n(I think my hubby is hotter, he thinks I am...it would be too weird to ask the kids so we're all tied up....figuratively that is.)
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Wal Mart sells some stuff called cohash or something like that that works miracles on hot flashes.  I usse it all the time.  The worst is when you lay down at night and your pillows are hot.
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Menopause is different for every woman. It depends on several things whether you go through an early one; family history, if you have had any female surgery (hysterectomy, ovarian cysts, etc.), if you are on medication that interfers with your hormones.\n\nYou should have a complete physical, with blood work, urine, etc. to see if there are any other problems.  Hot flashes could be also due to a thyroid condition, adrenal glad dysfunction, too much caffiene, etc., etc.
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It is definately possible to go through menopause that early, but extremely rare, and usually inheritated through family (when did your mother, grandmother, etc. go through menopause?)  The birth control pills would be my guess, since they can mess you up if you have been taking them and stop.  I would suggest seeing your OBGYN to figure out what is really going on.\nGood luck!
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This might help.  Signs that you are in perimenopause (pre-menopause) include:\nirregular periods\nless frequent periods\nlight periods or heavier periods\n\nSymptoms of menopause:\nhot flashes \nsleep disturbances, particularly insomnia \nemotional changes (mood swings or irritability) \na change in sexual interest or response \nproblems with concentration and memory that are linked to sleep loss and fluctuating hormones \nheadaches\nrapid, irregular heartbeats \ngeneralized itching\n\nNow not all women will get all the symptoms, you may have some, you may have none.  Everyone is different!
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A recent edition of News Week had a cover illustration on Women's Health and devoted much of the magazine to women's health. One was on the very question you asked. There are women who won't use hormons and others who would, but should not use them.  \n\nThey had good explanations of what hot flashes are and how to deal with them. That included some good ways to cope with the hot flashes. I recommend that you check out the local library and find that issue. You can probably read the part on Hot Flashes in 15 minutes and copy anything you want to keep. Sorry I do not have the issue right beside me or I would give you some of their answers right now. Newsweek probably has a web site under their name.
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I believe you can actually start menopause as early as your late twenties, so at 43 its a definitely possibility.  Did you breastfeed?  That will delay your period.  But with the hot flashes it sounds like menopause.  Go to Amazon.com and look up books on the subject, check the reviews and read up on it.  Then talk to you GYN. My doctor has a link with some info see below.
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Yes it could be it ! Headaches Hot Flashes Anxiety Mood Swings all are Menopause Symptoms !\nHomeopathic helps to cure all this without side effects and complications but to Prescribe Homeopathic I need her exact symptoms as to how and what she feels and Modalities Time Seasons Foods Drinks any other accompanying symptoms. And Remember Homeopathy Treats The Patient not The Disorder or disease and that is why it cures so effectively !\nPlease put details if you want an accurate answer!\nTake Care and God Bless !
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Yes i am. If you are going through menopause you will have\nhot flashes,night sweats,mood swings,headache,\nsome bone lose if you don't take some form of\ncalcium,cry for no reason,easily irritated.\nThere is a lot more symptoms these are just a few things\nyou go through with menopause.
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I am with lady bug! When you pass menopause you do loose many of your sexual tools. Get checked out and ask your Dr. about hormone cream for that problem!
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I dont know your age, but that started happneing to me in my forties, night sweats usually around the week of my cycle, now that im in the second "F" word, fifties,,,,,,, they started occuring all the time. I bought a product called "Estroven" it is soy based, it seemed to lessen the frequency and duration of these annoying occurances,,,,,,at least down to one a night. I learned hot flashes in the day only happen when one is in public LOL,,,,,,,, We are just too dam sexy,,,,,,, no wonder aging women cut their hair, sick of peelin it off our necks