Hot flashes and hashimotos

[Gwelos]

Hi, I have Hashimotos and I am on Eltroxin. I am post menopausal and find hot flashes very debillitating. has anyone any advice and is it related to thyroid hormone levels

[Numberone1]

I am also keen to know the answer to this. I suffer terrible with heat. It is unbearable to the point that Im beginning to think I can't go out anymore - it is always worst when I know I have to get somewhere. I drip from the head down.

[Hidden in reply to Numberone1]

This is probably unrelated to the problems you two describe, but the same thing happened to me in the past few weeks after I (foolishly?) decided to order natural progesterone cream instead of taking the progesterone pills (Utrogestan) prescribed by my hormone doctor. I did that after reading about how only 1/10 of progesterone pills are actually absorbed by the body...I am not menopausal, possibly peri-menopausal (aged 47).

Anyway, after a couple of days using the cream, I developed symptoms much like the ones you describe. Sweating ALL the time, to the point of having to bring a change of clothes everywhere I went, not to mention a bag full of towels and handkerchiefs...I thought I was going crazy, and almost turned into a recluse because I dreaded going out. I then went off the cream, and the symptoms improved within 48 hours and are now completely gone (it's been five days since I stopped using the cream).

So, are you taking any other hormones that could explain your symptoms? Of course, excessive amounts of thyroid hormones could also lead to sweating and other debilitating symptoms of hyperthyroidism...even though that is more likely to happen (in my experience) when you also take T3.

[Gwelos in reply to Numberone1]

Sorry to hear that number one .. I just have them at night so don't ever have a restful sleep

[Barrister]

When I started having hot flushes, I researched online and discovered high doses of sage may help. So I bought 2000mg tablets of sage, once daily and within a week the flushes had reduced dramatically and finally stopped. Clemmie

[finder]

I found that for a while that high doses of liquorice root from the Vital brand banished my hot flushes, but after severe stress and bad lifestyle and dietary habits they came back ...

Am about to embark on a liver cleanse and I might also try high doses of alfalfa as I watched a couple of videos about it a while back on Youtube and always found alfalfa very helpful with general health and digestion...