My partner has just undergone an hysterectomy and now suffers from hot flushes?

Question

She is on HRT and yet the hot flushes continue, is there anything else my partner can take to help reduce or control them, how long can she expect to the hot flushes to continue. Thanks

Answer 1

There are some over the counter product that help some people. She needs to talk with her physician, she may need to increase the dosage.
She can have blood work done to check her levels and to see if they are in range. But she needs to know that unless she had levels drawn when she was feeling fine they have no base line to refer to. So she could show as being in the normal range but her levels could not be "normal" for her.
She should also check to see if someone in the area does bio-identical. These are hormones from plants, the are not processed through the liver and do not have the negative side affects of synthetic hormones and appear to be safer over a longer period of time.