Q: I have had menopausal hot flashes for 12 years now – can these affect high blood pressure for which I am being treated?
A: Heart disease starts being diagnosed in women about ten years later than in men. For women this is in the 50’s. Menopause also occurs in the 50’s for most women. There is an association with menopause, either natural or from surgery, and heart disease. Studies have shown that women who experience hot flashes are more likely to have high blood pressure.
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The association of hot flashes with high blood pressure might be a helpful one!
Going on a modified DASH II diet with some extra virgin olive oil and more vegetables and NO refined grains or packaged foods or fast food or soft drinks and a lot less sugar both lowers high blood pressure without drugs and protects you from the risks lowering high blood pressure to avoid!
Similarly, regular exercise most days of every week has the same effects.
So does staying completely away from tobacco smoke.
So, it may be that doing those 3 things may also prevent or lessen hot flashes!
I went through menopause at 49. I’m now 64. Never had any hot flashes. I do have high blood pressure. I was diagnosed with hbp about age 57. After 6 years on Benicar HCT I started having hot flashes, night sweats, et cetera. I never knew when my clothes would be soaked through with sweat or I’d have sweat running off my nose. I thought maybe it had to do with eating too much sugar or carbs. After paying attention to what I was eating when for a month and when I had the hot flashes/sweats, I could see the sweats were unrelated to what I was eating. My cardiologist changed my prescription to a different medicine. No more sweats!
my sister inlaw is having this problem what medicine was you changed to. So maybe she could ask to try that, also. Her hair is ringing wet always wiping her face and neck because she is so hot. Maybe it her meds too, that is causing this problem. She has complained to the doctor’s they say she still has to take them. Thanks…