shit. Dad fell in the bathroom & hit his head, he's off to the ER.

Thank god he's in assisted living with an emergency call button.

Amy, I have, when I was unable to afford HRT for a month or so. They are CRAZY. I'd wake up, dripping with sweat in the winter, so hot that I'd open the back door and just bask.

And then I'd freeze. Then back to hot. My HEAD would sweat; not just my neck -- the whole head.

I'd also get flashes at the computer, and strip off to a tank and panties (again, in an already cool room). It's really annoying.

Oh no, Consuela! Yeah, glad the assistance was there.

Anyone who's had experience with hot flashes willing to talk about them?

Personal summers. Humid ones. Like Strix said, wake up at night drenched in sweat - I never realized before that "drenched in sweat" was literal, not hyperbolic. Have to wash my hair in the morning because my head got so sweaty at night. Hot, cold, hot, cold. I'm not taking HRT, but if my doctor recommends it, I might.

Yikes, Consuela. I hope he's okay.

I think what's confusing me is that it's not really *flashes*? I mean, it comes and goes, but it feels really weird, like I'm boiling underneath my skin. On the surface, I'm not hot -- I can touch my arm and feel that it's cool. But inside, I feel like I'm burning up.

And I do get them during the night. I feel like Will Graham.

Yay for assisted living! Boo for falling down and head wacking!

I always think I want a Corgi but I think the truth is that I just want Ein the data dog, from Cowboy Bebop.

Me too.

Is it like the B vitamin flush? I've had mini-hot flashes, but nothing so severe as described.

Thank god he's in assisted living with an emergency call button.

Indeed!

Amy, I think they are different for everyone. Mom has to start taking off layers and turning on fans. Mine have been really mild and usually just turn my cheeks red, like a flush. We heard them called Power Surges somewhere so that's our name for them. I've only had what you described once. It's just a continual surprise, but after a year, mine have kind of tapered off, if that helps.

So far today, I have been thwarted every time I try to do something, by circumstances outside of my control.

Mouse for the ops machine? Still missing.

Finally get (an old, crappy) mouse, FedEx website won't process shipment.

Finally get shipment to process (fiddle new step- click the teeny update button below the checkbox you just checked before you hit the submit WHAT THE FUCKING HELL FEDEX?!)

AND THE MOTHERFUCKING PC REBOOTS.

Fine.

Someone was supposed to bring me a new mouse.

No new mouse.

Permissions are wrong on a directory tree that I can't change, that I gave explicit instruction on last week.

It's crossed over into comedic.

But I'm getting jack shit done on account of this bullshit.