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[MissB]

Hi everyone. I've just recently joined JC and first time on line. I'm on my 3rd week. I have suffered from severe hot flashes and weight gain (15lbs) that didn't want to disappear,no matter how hard I exercised, or attempted to 'diet'. Everything stayed on like glue. I'm short, 58 years old, with chronic back pain. A year ago I hired a trainer which has been going well...but no weight loss whatsoever. As for my hot flashes, I had tried all different homeopathic creams, & combinations of pharmaceutical items, but they worked for short periods of time over my 6 years of discomfort, and then this past year nothing worked! So I went to my gyno in April and 'demanded' hormones. Ladies within 10 days I was liberated! I now am able to sleep at night and combined with the exercises I'm starting to feel 'new' again! I know not everyone is able to get prescription hormones, but if you are in that category, then do it. Hot flashes and all the other symptoms just wear us down.

Now I'm focused on the weight loss. In comes JC. Hope it works. Lost 4 lbs, the 1st week, 0 the 2nd. Would love some help with creative recipes for veggies! Any tips would be appreciated.

[Blessed4Life2]

Welcome aboard MissB! Congrats on the losses, thats a great start.

Although I'm not going through menopause yet, I appreciate the advice on HRT....I'm sure I will need it in the future.

You sound like you have become a whole new person....GOOD FOR YOU!!!...nothing quite like feeling back to your old self again.

Keep coming here, we are just a bunch of good ole folks trying to help one another through this journey the best we can.

[CMECRZN]

When I had my hysterectomy at age 44, I left the hospital with an estrogen patch. I tried for several years to go off them but the hot flashes were just too difficult to deal with. About 2 years ago I finally was able to slowly eliminate them. I still have the occasional flash but not intense and not often. So I say use them as a tool to get you through these flashes. That is what they are for. I would not have managed the last 14 years without the drugs. I'm glad I'm done with them finally though now.

[Betty C]

MissB, on 22 October 2011 - 06:42 AM, said:

Hi everyone. I've just recently joined JC and first time on line. I'm on my 3rd week. I have suffered from severe hot flashes and weight gain (15lbs) that didn't want to disappear,no matter how hard I exercised, or attempted to 'diet'. Everything stayed on like glue. I'm short, 58 years old, with chronic back pain. A year ago I hired a trainer which has been going well...but no weight loss whatsoever. As for my hot flashes, I had tried all different homeopathic creams, & combinations of pharmaceutical items, but they worked for short periods of time over my 6 years of discomfort, and then this past year nothing worked! So I went to my gyno in April and 'demanded' hormones. Ladies within 10 days I was liberated! I now am able to sleep at night and combined with the exercises I'm starting to feel 'new' again! I know not everyone is able to get prescription hormones, but if you are in that category, then do it. Hot flashes and all the other symptoms just wear us down.

Now I'm focused on the weight loss. In comes JC. Hope it works. Lost 4 lbs, the 1st week, 0 the 2nd. Would love some help with creative recipes for veggies! Any tips would be appreciated.

[Betty C]

Hello and thank you so much for sharing the information on hormone therapy. I am paramenopausal and haven't quite started experiencing hot flashes yet. I have been doing Jenny for the past year with great enthusiasm and have found it works when I stick to it. I love this program. It made me the person that I have always wanted to be. Fit, trim and I work hard on keeping it that way. I am 5 lbs from my goal and it is going to take everything in me to get this off but I will do it. I always say that if there is a better way to help with menopause I want to know about it and will not hesitate to use it. So thank you so much for the assistance and good luck. You will do it. You have the determination and drive! You go girl!

[Nova Karen]

I have also had hot flashes for 6 years. I get some relief from effexor. I am an RN and have read the studies on the potential negative (and positive) effects of hormones. At this time, I don't feel they are for me. Luckily I only have hot flashes and no other symptoms (the weight gain pre-dated menopause). But for those women who aren having their quality of life greatly reduced from menopausal symptoms, I understand that hormones may provide an answer.

[Teri-Ann]

Hello everyone, I too am new to JC. I saw this post about hot flashes. I have had them for awhile now. I saw what my sister went through and she wouldn't take anything for them. If there is something I can take for the hot flashes and it works I will.
Thankfully effexor is also helping me.

[I Called Jenny]

To be honest, I had hot flashes for about ten years and while they were annoying, I didn't think they warranted taking medications.

I know it's a personal decision but frankly, the less drugs (natural, hormone or otherwise) in my body, the happier I am.

I already have to take a variety of meds for other conditions that are more "serious" than the flashes were, so the fewer the meds, the happier I am (even as I'm sometimes "warmer").