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What helped me with hot flashes: What helped you?
Prostate Cancer | Last Active: Sep 27 6:21am | Replies (29)Comment receiving replies
This has been a major annoyance for me. Gabapentin seemed t help some but my PCP explained that you develop a resistance to it so need to take higher and higher doses. I didn't get on that train so only take it if I'm going to a social event.
I also got one of the Embr Wave2 devices and found it helpful. One of my initial MOs was a female who recommended it - she had friends who had used it for menopause hot flashes. Not perfect but once you learn to train your CNS it seems to be beneficial.
I just got back from a 2 week vacation in the mountains in Colorado and strangely had hardly any hot flashes. I live in a hot, humid environment in coastal South Carolina so maybe humidity aggravates it?
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Gabapentin did little for me too. I live in the Phoenix area and have been on Orgovyx since January. Referencing the heat: I noticed during the Winter, I had hot flashes, but, not severe. During the summer here in Phoenix, the hot flashes were special. Now that the temperature has started to cool off; my hot flashes are fewer and not as bad. So, yes ... I believe warm/hot temps affect the hot flashes.
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I live in San Francisco where the average year around temperature is probably 65 or less. Low humidity as well. When it hits 70+ it’s unusual.
Mark Twain is noted for saying. Coldest winter I ever spent was summer in San Francisco. Our summers are always Filled with overcast days. Doesn’t get warm here until late September and then we may only get three or four warm days. Had a few years where it got hot in February, weird weather.
My hot flashes were pretty constant and pretty severe for over a year before I found a drug to stop them (depo-provera). The weather may help, but it’s not just the heat and the humidity that does it.
Writing this as I get a hot flash, it’s 67 in the house. This one is relatively mild fortunately, my Wave device is charging still.