Hot-Flashes or Power Surges?

Okay, I am almost up-to-here with these hot-flashes! I mean, this is getting to be too much!

When they started, I sort of thought, great, I won’t be freezing cold any more. Then they started coming in the night, and I thought, great, I won’t have to heat my bedroom so much. But now they are coming all the time, and that, my friends, is too much!

I try to dress once in the morning and then I do my hair. Fifteen minutes later, I am on fire and pulling off my clothes, my hair is askew and I look like I have fought a battle and lost.

The worst part is that the hot-flashes have started arriving about one per hour. Then I get so cold after them that I feel chilled.

This creates a tough atmosphere for sleep. Let’s just say I’m not sleeping much. I go from feeling suffocated to being ice cold and shaking. I try to just keep blankets around for a quick cover up, but then I’m on fire, and…..

I know, some of you are laughing. I admit when I had the first few hot-flashes I thought they were funny too, but right now, smack dab in the middle of menopause I’m just not laughing any more!

I remember years ago when I was a kid and I saw an episode on “All In The Family” about Edith going through the “change“, and Archie yelling at her to hurry up and finish “changing“!

Man, I wish it were that easy!