best to you dad and if it isn't fox it is cnn. I'm not sure why news is the default.

Vibes and Good thoughts going to your dad.

Why can't Amazon already have the drones everywhere?! I just broke out in hives but the roads are bad to get some Claritin. I have an antihistamine off brand but I've never taken it. Doctor didn't call me back so I don't know what is safe to take with my other medicine.

Eta: found the claritin. So all good.

Hot flashes are worst in the summer for me -- when the ambient temp is high. They at at the worst not while I'm exercising (or doing something that takes a fair amount of exertion) but about 10-15 minutes AFTER I've stopped.

Also, right when I'm falling asleep.

I fight back with cold packs, either on the forehead/under the head/in the small of my back which is a particular hot spot. Cooling down the last seems as though it affects the rest of the body. When I'm in the office working, I keep a bottle of cold water handy, not just to drink out of, but to discreetly tuck between the small of my back and the chairback.

I hope your dad wasn't hurt too badly, Consuela.

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

I think I've had them? I realized last month that I'm just about into menopause (give or take a month), and for about a year I've been going to bed shivering and waking up broiling--tossing all my covers off no matter what the actual air temperature might be--around 4 am. Very annoying. I haven't had anything like it during the day. Just as well, since tossing all my clothes off in the office wouldn't go over well.

Theresa,

I got hives from the antibiotic I was prescribed. I took it for 7 days. 9 days after not taking it, I am still itchy.

Not amused.

've been going to bed shivering and waking up broiling--tossing all my covers off no matter what the actual air temperature might be--around 4 am.

That's my experience, too. I'll snuggle in under the blankets, and in the wee hours I'm flinging them off.

That's the kidneys, Theo. Hunters do the opposite, put hot packs there to keep warm. It does affect the whole body, as all the blood keeps cycling through there.

I need more info info about this whole menopause/perimenopause thing. My periods have certainly gotten more irregular and I probably have some of the other symptoms too.

I don't get the extreme heat shifts but my inner thermometer is absolutely out of whack.

I don't get the extreme heat shifts but my inner thermometer is absolutely out of whack.

This, so much. Because aside from if I wake up sweating in the middle of the night, I don't sweat during these episodes otherwise. And I had a friend who used to, and would whip out something to fan herself with, etc. I just feel like everything beneath the skin is about to boil over. It's really weird.