Natural Hot Flash Remedy and Relief

The natural plant-derived compounds in the cream consist of; Jojoba oil, Ginseng Extract, Sesame Oil, Aloe Vera Gel, Black Walnut Leaf Extract, Black Cohosh Extract, Licorice Root Extract, Chaste Tree Berry Extract, Evening Primrose Oil just to name a few (All Natural and non-pharmacologic).

During menopause the cream produces mild estrogen-like effects in the body if it is low. In estrogen-dominant women, Pro-Gest® is used in addition to help balance your levels.

It is very simple to apply, just use a dime-sized amount in the palm of your hand and apply to your arm, wrist, stomach or hip. Personally I find I have a greater affect by applying the cream to my hip. I use it once in the morning and once in the evening before going to bed. After using the cream for a while I have found that I have to only apply it once per day.

In my experience I will have a breakthrough hot flash or night sweat but the duration is not as long and as intense at they used to be. Very rarely now do I wake up 6 to 8 times per night to throw off the blankets because of night sweats and then minutes later hunt for the blankets again because I suddenly got cold.

Needless to say I wasn't sleeping very well and that has all changed now.

Another morning, wait a minute, my bed linens and blankets are soaking wet, my clothes are wet and twisted and my hair is stuck to the side of my face.

Oh yea, I had another wonderful night of hot flashes and night sweats. Who needs exercise? I exercised all night long throwing the covers off and on. Thank you to my sweet husband for buying me the remote controlled fan. Bellowing out, "Honey, we need more batteries for the fan remote" as I look over and see my hubby snuggled up in the blankets like a mummy and just rolling his eyes at me.

Let's see, I had maybe a total of two hours sleep and I exercised all night long. What better way to start the day?

I get up and head for the shower, "gently shoving" the cat out of the way with my foot and no one better even think about getting to the bathroom before I do.

I've had my shower and I feel much better now. Hah, that's what you think! I throw the bed linens, blankets and my PJ's in the washer and head for the kitchen.

I say good morning to my husband and I ask him "What do you want for breakfast?" "Eggs, bacon and toast he says," with a question mark. So what! Here's oatmeal, eat it and he says. "Yes, Dear."

So I kiss the hubby as he heads off to work. Now I need to clean up the kitchen. Look at that, after I made him breakfast, he still didn't eat it. That's gratitude for you.

Slowly here come those twinges again. My heart begins racing and I feel the little beads of sweat forming on my forehead and my upper lip. Oh no, not again. I yank the hair band from my wrist and pull my hair up into a ponytail. I need immediate cool relief. I stick my head in the freezer and think, "I wish I could crawl all of the way inside." No matter, by the time I got in there, this episode would be over and I would be freezing cold again. Hmm, that wasn't too bad of one this time.

Now, what was I doing? Oh yea, I was going to go to the grocery store. I finally decide on which outfit I want to wear and begin putting on my makeup. Here were go again, my freshly applied makeup feels like it is sliding down my face to my neck. The refrigerator isn't close enough this time so I grab a washcloth and get it wet with water as cold as possible from the tap and put it on the back of my neck. This is a bad one. I sit down and wait until it is over and then off to the closet to choose another outfit and throw this wet one in the washer and tell myself, "I have to remember to start the washer when I get home."

Now I've made it to the car without another hot flash. I turn the air conditioner on full blast just in case. Nope, too cold, turn the air conditioner down. Driving down the street, they just started playing my favorite song so I turn the radio up louder. Sometimes I still feel like a teenager again until I am so rudely brought back to reality of my daily episodes.
I have made this trip to the grocery store hundreds of times but today, I get to the stop sign and I honestly cannot remember which way I am supposed to turn to get there.

Panic sets in and I wonder if I am losing my mind. No, it is just another lovely symptom of menopause. I turn left and then I realize I was supposed to turn right. Okay, so I messed up. I will go around the block to get back to where I need to be, no problem.

I finally made it to the grocery store. Yep, sure enough I left my list at home. Hey, I am still bright enough to remember what I wrote on the list and what we need. As I travel through the store aisles picking up the different items I need and dropping them in the cart, again here comes that feeling. Yep, right on time, about 45 minutes. Plenty of refrigerators in the grocery store but I am not sure how they would feel about me sticking my head in one of them. I decide I can disguise my true reason for having my head in the freezer by grabbing a package of something, anything and begin to read the instructions.

Please, please don't let this be a long hot flash this time. I can just imagine the people behind me seeing my rear end sticking out of the grocery store freezer and thinking I had lost what little mind I have left these days.

Okay, made it through that one without the store manager showing up to escort me out of the store. Now all I have to do is pay for the groceries and get out of here. I have to hurry, it's almost time for the hubby to come home from work.

By now those whole two hours of sleep I managed to get last night have caught up with me and I am running out of steam.

My exciting day continues in Part 2

As the day continues, I get myself home, carry the groceries in the house and here it comes again. I've about had it, so I jump in the shower again to cool off, put on dry clothes, yet again for the umpteenth time today.

Again I suffer through another hot flash. The hubby will be home soon and wanting dinner. I go in to the kitchen and see that I never finished cleaning it up from this morning. What was I thinking?

I stand in the kitchen thinking to myself, "I know there is something else I needed to do today but for the life of me I cannot remember what it was." Oh well, it will come to me later on.

I decide to take advantage of the short time I have left before the hubby gets home from work and take a short nap. I lie down on the couch and feel myself drifting off to sleep.

Suddenly I am awakened with my upper lip wet and the beads of sweat forming again. I lie there and suffer through this one. I am too exhausted to seek any kind of relief if it means getting off of this couch. It's over and I drift off to sleep.

Almost 45 minutes on the dot, I am again awakened with my clothes wet, my hair stuck to my face and the cat sitting on my chest staring at me. I gruffly tell the cat. "Get down if you know what's good for you as I knock him off my chest." I get up and start shedding clothes as I run down the hallway to a cold shower.

As I stand in the shower with the cold water cooling me down, I hear my husband come in the door yelling, "Honey, I'm home. What's for dinner?" Emerging from the bathroom not even bothering to dry off, my hair dripping wet and hanging down in my face in tangles, I meet my husband in the hallway. Again he begins to say "What's for...?" as his voice trails off, not even bothering to finish the sentence when he sees the hostile look on my face. He slowly turns around and goes to another room in the house.

Again for the third or fourth time today, I've lost count by now, I put on clean and dry clothes and decide to comb my hair.

I go out in the living room to find my husband to see if he feels like ordering a pizza tonight because I am just too tired to bother with cooking. He looks up from the TV and says, "Yes, Dear."

The evening goes on with a few more episodes as my husband sits quietly in his chair not daring to say a word, fearing that whatever he says will be wrong. I eventually give up and decide to go to bed. A night of sleep will help and I will feel better in the morning.

I go in to the bedroom to find our bed with no linens, no blankets and PJ's no where to be found. Then I remember, that's what I forgot to do today, start the washer. It doesn't matter now, I forgot the laundry detergent too while I was at the grocery store. I put on clean bed linens and lay down for my much deserved two hours of sleep and a full night of exercise, again.

I am to the point now where I am seriously considering spending the nights sleeping nude in a kiddy wading pool. It would be much easier to clean up in the morning, don't you think?

Just Shoot Me, Please?