States Chronicle - Latest Breaking World News

Tuesday, January 19, 2021
Log in
  • About Us
  • Contact Us
  • Authors
  • Investor Relations
  • Privacy
  • Terms of Use
  • Latest News
    • Right Colors for your Skin Tone
    • MOST ACTIVE NASDAQ After-Hours
    • iPhone 5C Release Date
    • Samsung Galaxy S5 Release Date
    • The History of the Atkins Diet

Hot Flashes Are a Serious Problem that Some Middle-Aged Women Have to Face 24/7

February 17, 2015 By Georgia Dawson Leave a Comment

Email, RSS Follow

Hot Flashes Are a Serious Problem that Some Middle-Aged Women Have to Face 24-7

Menopause brings all sorts of hormonal changes that transform a woman’s body into a ticking bomb that is ready to burst into flames at any time. Hot flashes are a serious problem that some middle-aged women have to face 24/7 and they are not pleasant at all. The feeling of always being in a way too warmed up environment, being unable to feel happy about a hot summer day, waking up all sweaty and agitated, mood variations  – these are just some of the symptoms brought by the hot flashes of menopause. Medicine books say that 80 percent of women that are found in their middle age years are about to experience such problems. Also, doctors say that these hot flashes last about seven years, or maybe one half of a year more. But statistics come around to infirm all these information. A new study that has been published on Monday in JAMA Internal Medicine found that they can continue for as long as 14 years and the intensity of them is worse if they start sooner.

The study has covered the cases of 1,449 women that are different racially, ethnically and geographically and it is the largest study to date about this particular issue. Researchers have stated that half of the women have had these symptoms for about 7.4 years, whereas the other half of them has experienced hot flashes for more than 14 years. The women came from seven American cities, from 1996 to 2013. An important fact to specify is that none of the volunteers have had a hysterectomy or both ovaries removed, and none were on hormone therapy. Unfortunately for some of them the personal data has been excluded from the study at the moment they started the hormonal treatment.

Sharon Brown, 57, of Winston-Salem, N.C. said that she has been dealing with hot flashes for six years.

“It’s miserable, I’ll tell you what. At my job at a tax and accounting office, I have had to stop wearing silk. I keep one of the little fans with me at all times — one in my purse, a couple in my desk, and some in just random places in the office. I’ll be so glad when they stop — if they ever stop.”

Those women that have experienced the hot flashes before the menopause, while they still had theirs periods, have had the unfortunate chance to be left with the hot flashes even more years than those that have felt them just when their menopause began.

Dr. C. Neill Epperson, director of University of Pennsylvania’s Center for Women’s Behavioral Wellness wasn’t involved in the study but he believes that hormonal changes happen at another intensity and frequency at sensitive women.

“That having symptoms earlier in the transition bodes ill for your symptoms during menopause — that part is certainly new to me.”

The study has shown that from all 1,449 women, only one fifth of them have experienced hot flashed after their menopause has begun. One in eight women feels the uncomfortable flash while still having her regular, normal periods. When periods start to become more and more sporadic and irregular, two-thirds of women start detecting into their daily routine this tedious body reaction.

Nancy Avis, a professor of social sciences and health policy at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center and the study’s first author confirms the findings, saying that if you don’t have hot flashes until you’ve stopped menses, then you won’t have them as long and if you start later, it’s a shorter total duration and it’s shorter from the last period on.

But what are the hot flashes exactly? They are basically linked to drops in estrogen and seem to be controlled by the hypothalamus in the brain. An important finding has been that those women who experience early hot flashes are also facing the risk of cardiovascular issues and bone loss.

Dr. Risa Kagan, an obstetrician-gynecologist at the University of California, San Francisco, and the Sutter East Bay Medical Foundation in Berkeley said that this is a real-world study of women that we are all seeing say in and day out. She believes that there hasn’t been made any other studies like this and she is true.

Dr. Andrew Kaunitz, an obstetrician-gynecologist at University of Florida who was not involved in the study either, has publicly exposed his opinion about the case.

“I’m not at all suggesting that hot flashes are manifestations of depression, but they’re both brain-related phenomena, and depression is also more common in the same groups.”

He thinks that stress, fatigue and emotional issues could influence the appearance or maintaining the hot flashes, but it is a insecure theory. Dr. JoAnn E. Manson, chief of preventive medicine at the Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Women’s Hospital and an author of a commentary accompanying the study believes that those women who have a lot of stress in their lives are more aware of the symptoms and perceive them as being more bothersome. However, if stress isn’t an issue, it can become one, because waking up every night because of abundant sweats can easily lead to stress.

Image Source: Work With Dave and Joy

Email, RSS Follow

Filed Under: Health

About Georgia Dawson

What Georgia best loves about journalism is the intricacies of covering a story. Following a lead, talking to people or conducting under-the-hood investigations is what fuels Georgia’s drive for this profession.

Subscribe to Blog via Email

Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Join 30 other subscribers

Doom and MiniDoom 2

Volunteer-Based Mexican Studio Releases Sidescrolling Doom Clone

March 12, 2018 By Georgia Dawson Leave a Comment

Chinese Mom and locked iPhone.

Toddler Locks Chinese Mom Out of Phone for Half a Century

March 9, 2018 By James Faulkner Leave a Comment

Alexa laughing

Amazon Alexa Laughing out of the Blue Puzzles Engineers

March 8, 2018 By Jack M. Robinson Leave a Comment

Flippy and the Burgers

Meet Flippy, World’s First Fast-Food Robotic Chef

March 6, 2018 By Georgia Dawson Leave a Comment

System Shock

System Shock Remastered Delayed, Nightdive Studios CEO Announces

February 19, 2018 By Janet Vasquez Leave a Comment

Sea of Thieves.

Sea of Thieves Optimized for Low-End PCs

February 14, 2018 By Georgia Dawson Leave a Comment

Sony and VR

Sony Touts New Generation of VR Controllers

January 31, 2018 By Deborah Cobing Leave a Comment

YouTube

YouTube Stiffens Its Monetization Policy to Discourage Spammers and Bad Actors

January 18, 2018 By Georgia Dawson Leave a Comment

Google Art Doppelganger

Google App Can Now Show Your Art Doppelganger

January 15, 2018 By Troy Rubenson Leave a Comment

YouTube mobile app logo on a smartphone

YouTube Now Enables Vertical Videos on iOS

December 24, 2017 By Janet Vasquez Leave a Comment

Samsung Galaxy S2 with a shattered screen

Cracked Smartphone Screens Are a Thing of the Past – Self-Healing Polymer Gets Fixed Just by Pressing It

December 20, 2017 By Janet Vasquez Leave a Comment

Bing logo on a white background

Bing Improves Its Search Results with the Help of AI and Reddit Integration

December 16, 2017 By Janet Vasquez Leave a Comment

White hashtag on a blue background

Follow Your Interests on Instagram by Directly Following Hashtags

December 14, 2017 By Janet Vasquez Leave a Comment

Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge on a leather seat

Samsung Galaxy Smartphones Make More People Happier as Compared to iPhones

December 13, 2017 By Janet Vasquez Leave a Comment

Related Articles

  • image of retina

    Laser Pointer Makes Hole in Little Boy’s Retina

    Jun 21, 2018
  • person playing a video game

    World Health Organization Officially Recognizes Gaming Disorder

    Jun 19, 2018
  • two robot hands

    Sex Robots Don’t, In Fact, Provide Any Heath Benefits (Study)

    Jun 6, 2018
  • women's health initiative logo

    Some Breast Cancer Patients Can Skip Chemotherapy (Study)

    Jun 4, 2018
  • bowl of vitamin supplements

    Vitamin and Mineral Supplements are Useless (Study)

    May 31, 2018
  • two cockroaches on a leaf

    Cockroach Milk, The Latest Superfood Trend

    May 29, 2018
  • seafood on platter

    Seafood Boosts Libido and Fertility (Study)

    May 25, 2018
  • Vitamin D pills

    Vitamin D Therapy to Treat Diabetes and Cancer (Study)

    May 14, 2018
  • woman with a runny nose

    Woman’s Runny Nose Was Actually Brain Fluid Leak

    May 8, 2018
  • children running

    Children are in Better Shape than Athletes (Study)

    Apr 25, 2018

Categories

  • Business
  • Entertainment
  • Health
  • Lifestyle
  • Markets
  • National News
  • Nature
  • News
  • Politics
  • Science
  • Technology
  • Uncategorized
  • World

Copyright © 2021 statechronicle.com

About · Privacy Policy · Terms of Use · Contact

This website uses cookies to ensure you get the best experience on our website. Learn more.