Hot Flashes after hysterectomy

I am 55 years young and  12 days out from a complete robotic laproscopic hysterectomy. Still feeling some lower discomfort but have yet to have a hot flash. I had gone into menapause at the age of 50 and dealt with hot flashes and everything that goes with it until August of 2010 when I found out about Bioidentical hormone replacement pellets. I found my miracle. But at that time I still had not had a hysterectomy and I had some other health problems so I came off the pellets and found that they had started my body to making it's own hormones again. I was going through the changes the body has to go through again for menapause and since my mother had uterin cancer, I had the same fear and the doctor suggested the surgery. I will now go back to my pellets once my body adjust itself and believe this when I tell you, it is the most wonderful meds you can get for menapause. You can get all the information you need about it online if you will look for Sottopelle. Also Suzanne Summers has a book called "The Sexy Years" I promise you won't regret looking into this. I researched for several years just knowing there had to be something that could help that would be a natural fix for this and I found it. Thank God I never gave up. I do not regret starting the pellets and I don't regret stopping them for awhile but now I can go back on them and feel free that they were my help all along. You can locate a GYN that can help you with this by going online for Natural Hormone Replacement Therepy. My is in Alabama. Good luck and God Bless.

SD from Mississippi

I started my Hot flashes after surgery myself. I got surgery done when I was forty-five now I'm fifty-six. I kept one ovary. I exercise four times a week they get worse after that, go figure. My Mom always told me to take Vitamin E. This is suppose to be really good for women fighting diseases. "Please read up on the Vitamin E this is really helping my Hot flashes alot.

The only problem I have with taking Vitamin E is it makes me bruise. I had a full hysterectomy when I was 35, I am 62 now. I was on HRT until a month ago. My doctor did not want me on that long but my sleep was so interrupted with heat flashes she gave me a low dose. Well it got to the point that I was still having flashes while on the pill, so I stopped taking them. My sleep is interrupted and I get flashes off and on during the day. I wish there is something that I could take to at least help with sleeping through the night.

Try 35 years after a total hysterectomy and they keep getting worse,maybe it's a heart issue,or will they write 

 

I had a total hysterectomy on 9th October 2013, I have only have a few hot flushes and they have only last for a few minutes

So glad I'm not the only one to suffer hot flushes and night sweats 18 month post total hyst. I'm 49 . Not in any hrt dr advised against it . Thought I was the one it was happening too looks like it could carry on for a lot more years - haha always said I was hot stuff x take car everyone

After a complete hysterectomy I went on a low dose estrogen patch. That didn't give me much releave after 3 weeks, so we went to .01mg. That was too much and made my breasts tender. So I dialed that back over several weeks and a .0075 seems to work great. No night sweats or weeping anymore. :)) I hope to try to wean myself off the patch in about 6 months as I just healed from my surgery. But this has worked exceedingly well for me. The downside is massive hair loss ...

I had a complete hysterectomy when I was 36, I first started having hot flashes that go all day and all night for months on end. They are debilitating and almost never stop. They started 2 years ago and I still have them. I am 73. My estrogen tests show normal. ???

I had a total hysterectomy in April of 2005, almost 10 years ago. First the dr. put me on the patch and that made me stink. I told him that and he laughed, of course. So, I never used them regularly, and I still had flashes.  I finally got him to put me on estrogen/testosterone shots a few years ago. They work great! It's like the initial injection they give you at the hospital right after surgery that keeps you cool for the first month.  So, I swear by these shots.  I have tried to wean myself off of them, and if I don't get one for three months, the hot flashes come back so bad I just get sick. I am talking 20-25 severe hotflashes every day.  The kind that make you so nausious you need to sit down in front of a fan.  And this is 10 years after surgery. So, I have pretty much resigned to having these shots forever. I get one every two months and I am fine, no flashes hardly ever. But if I quit, I get hot, hot, hot. Bad part is dr. is always harping about me getting a mammogram becuz of the HRT. I hate mammograms, I have no boobs and mammograms hurt like hell when you don't have anything to flatten out in that stupid machinee. So, he manually checks me several times a year, and I keep getting the shots.  But yes, estradiol shots sometimes mixed with testosterone, not always.  They work great if you can get your dr. to give them to you.

I laughed at the humor in your post and I sympathized with you most. at 60 I had a total hysterectomy I thought because I had gone through menopause this would not be bad, I was wrong hot flashes started soon after , hormones are out of the question one cancer was enough, I won't promise I won't run naked through the snow at 3;00 in the morning, and at 60 years that's a pretty SCARY SIGHT, but I have washed my car at 2:00 in the morning in the cold fog with my .pj's on. what we women go through, and to think guy's think they have it hard.

For me, they did NOT end with menopause. Had a total hysterectomy 20 years ago. I am now 66 and STILL having them. Stinks!!

I too had a complete hysterectomy 19 years ago and recently stopped hrt I am having several episodes daily and nightly and I am not able to sleep either. I am taking estroven & black kohosh. As I am typing I'm having a flash. I was hoping I could live with this but am thinking about going back on estrogen.

I had a premature menopause at age 38. Had some spotting, and my General Practioner referred me to gynocologist oncologist. They were concerned about ovarian cancer, so a hystorectomy was performed last month age 69.
I needed to pick up our dog in a city unfamiliar to me , was given wrong directions and totally lost it! My point is that I don't cry unless something really awful happens. That was an overreaction. O.K. I had my husband's phone which was dead, apparently, this just goes with the territory. I did not have cancer, just a cyst and polyp. Perhaps we will have to take a few breaths and relax, This happened this morning, so do forgive the temporary insanity.

You described my experience to a TEE!. I was just researching to see when this would end. I was relieved to see that I am not odd because I instantly have a hot flash if I get upset. Ughhh and those are the worst! I wake up at least 3-4 times a night drenched and would love to stuff my entire body into the side by side freezer! Thank you for sharing.

Exactly my life....ughhhhh