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Could someone please explain Hot Flashes to me?
I am a 48 year old Cold Natured woman.
I do not enjoy the cold at all.
I can handle anything down to about 75 degrees, but even then, if it’s night time, I still need a light jacket.
I freeze all summer long inside my own home where the air conditioning fluctuates between MY 78 degrees and HIS 72 degrees.
In church or other public buildings, I have to wear long sleeves.
I just cannot handle the cold.

So when I thought about my impending menopause, which could be starting at any time now in my life, I almost welcomed my idea of “hot flashes”.
Now I know they are not fun. I’ve been told by many friends and relatives that it is a miserable time of life. Too hot to sleep, sweating through your clothes, can’t stand to be alive..
but being a person who is always cold, I was thinking it might be nice to occasionally “warm up”.

That is.. until this summer.
This summer, I am hot.
But not in flashes.
All the time.
In my own home, even when the temp is set on HIS 72.
I’ve even been known to crank it down to 68 when he’s not home!
I’m just hot.
When I get in the car, the MAX AIR gets turned right on me–gas mileage be danged.
I cannot get the studio to cool off when I go to the tv station to film shows.
Our classrooms at school are always miserable.. either too hot or too cold.. and guess how they are feeling now. That’s right HOT!

I’ve succumbed to lying naked on top of my own bed under the air vent AND ceiling fan.
Trying to cook dinner roasts ME!

I’ve never felt this way..and now I’m starting to get worried because I really don’t believe this IS menopause.
It’s not “flashing”.
It’s coming on and staying on.

So when I get to the point where the flashing starts… somebody better just follow behind me with a bucket or ice water at all times..
cuz I’m gonna need it.