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163305 tn?1333668571

Don't worry about hot flashes

I'm not a doctor but I don't think hot flashes have anything to do with whether the virus is active or not.

So, many or us are around that age when women are going through the change of life.
  
Tx messes with our hormones. One symptom of treatment it hot flashes BUT it is also the major complaint of menopausal women.

PLEASE, if you are experiencing hot flashes, don’t panic. Take a cool shower and relax.    

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Yeah I wasn't implying you didn't have hot flashes.
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LOL This internet communication is hard sometimes. I know you weren't implying that I didn't have hot flashes. What I was trying to convey was that your symptoms don't seem similiar to mine at all - which is good. So anyhow I was just trying to encourage you buddy. I hope you can get a PCR real soon to put your mind at ease. Maybe you should ask your "PCP" to give you a req form. Thats who gave me my req form. In my case, I didn't want to wait until the 3 month post once I felt something was wrong. Wish you the best.
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146021 tn?1237204887
I know the feeling. I was just posting to Meki that I got an upper respiratory infection post tx, and of course, I linked it to coming off the meds, or the hep c. I developed bronchitis twice from the little cold and @ the time thought it was no coincidence. No Way!
Now I'm sure I was being overly sensitive, even at the time my dr said he was so sick from the same virus, and people all around me were getting sick. But I was special! I had just treated the hep c and some how it was all related.
I think your fever is just a fever, it's hard not looking at everything as a potential sign of relapse. Myown is right, you're going to be fine and fighting off the women for a long time to come.
Bug
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217229 tn?1192762404
I-horn - it's harder - scarier - and a let down - and yet an uplifting thing all at once.

You still feel ick --  you have no clue --- and all you can do is wait - wait - wait.

Weird stuff.

Meki
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148987 tn?1287805926
Yeah I wasn't implying you didn't have hot flashes. My subject line was cut off. I don't recall what it said exactly but blah blah... I wouldn't know what 'hot flashes' were if you sprayed me with a flame thrower.

Funny thing about this post tx waiting.....it's harder than I thought it would be.
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bug,,yes I totally believe that hormones play a big role in SVR. My Dhea was so high for quite some time and then it came back down and now its back up again. That was the appointment that I had with my PCP prior to hearing relapse. I had chronic stress due to a really bad situation before knowing I had hep. I totally believe the stress hormone got things going and thats when my body started feeling strange and my thyroid went wacky and all that. I was even on thyroid med for a short period before tx and then all of a sudden my thyroid numbers were changing and I went off the meds and so far so good. IMO its definitely the virus that messes with it all, starting with the hormones and I think that the hormones can some how interfere with svr.

I-horn. I didn't have a fever at all. I get these flashes or sweats but I have had a low body temp for quite some time now. You sound like you had a bug and not related to hep c. You have to remember that what I had, hit me like a ton of bricks. Your description does not fit what I had happen. When mine hit the first time, I would never be able to describe it as a low grad fever that broke. This was constant water comming out of my upper body- I was drenched. I think you are going to be fine you babe magnet you.
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148987 tn?1287805926
I am 6 weeks post tx and during week 5 I developed a low grade fever ( 101.7) for a few days. It finally broke yesterday but it still has me a little worried. Don't know what to say other than, it has me a little worried.
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163305 tn?1333668571
Bug:  I've wondered if going through menopause isn't what accelerated my HCV, since estrogen functions as a protector in some ways. Enjoy your peaceful drives.

FSG: I don't know that I can agree about the difference between night sweats and hot flashes. I never got so sweaty to soak the sheets but I don't sweat that much, anyway.
   Food for thought: Tx seems to do something in our brains, confusing our senses. What I've read of hotflashes, is it too, is a trick on the body.
  
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146021 tn?1237204887
I just wonder about the impact that your shifting hormones had on your relapse. I googled it and this is what I found: http://hcvadvocate.org/hepatitis/hepC/wmnlong.html
Not a lot of help, but makes you wonder about the role of estrogen, hep c and tx.
Take care, hugs,
Bug
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86075 tn?1238115091
I think there is a difference between hot flashes and night sweats, or spontaneous sweating feelings, almost like fevery feelings. There's a really small distinction between either one, and some people think they can be one in the same. Hot flashes, if any of us women (and some men) have experienced them, they come on all of a sudden, and you feel you need to take off your clothes practically, no matter how cold it is, they are for the most part temorary. The other things I've mentioned seem to be more in line with a few symptoms many patients complain about, particularly the night sweats. Hope I've confused y'all as much as I've confused myself. lol....

Also, cause I've studied this stuff so thoroughly, some women can get onset menopausal symptoms, even if they've stopped their menses for awhile, or are still having menses. The problem with having menopause while you still have the virus, is that some of the symptoms overflap, or are interchangeable, one of the biggest mysteries for me to solve, (and my docs) so by this time I don't try to. And I haven't even mentioned the glandular disease, OMG!!!
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I didn't want to think I left anyone with the wrong impression thats why I posted the above. Glad to hear that you are doing well. Take care.
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163305 tn?1333668571
Bug, Hi,Yes relaspsing is so sad. To go through all the difficulty of tx and then to find out the little monsters are still there,( the rattle sound is my head shaking).

    I got the impression that it'd be easy to assume that since MO mentioned hot flashes that someone ( like me!) could easily misunderstand that as being a symptom of having HCV.

   I'm feeling better all the time. Still got some wierd twings and twangs but in general, I'm doing really well. Thanks for asking. Now if I don't melt during this heat spell.. .


MO: I do understand that you KNEW that you'd relapsed. And sure, we are different and our bodies react differently. Ironically, I was sitting here last night flashing away while reading your post.
                                peace loving hawk
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212705 tn?1221620650
Amen! We need to hear what's going on...keep on sharing, please.
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Yes you're right people should not panic just because of a symptom I had. Some women will get the flashes becasue of menopause. For me I knew that it was the virus because tho my menses stopped last winter I never had a hot flash that I could remember. These particular flashes that I experienced I even wonder if women get them this bad from menses. They seemed totally abnormal. I mean my upper body would be very wet and I felt very hot when everyone else was cool. Now they are nothing like they were at all from that initial onset a few weeks ago. As a matter of fact I didn't feel hardly anything compared to what it was and it its getting better. Thats why I know it was the virus coming back. The weeks prior to that where I was UND (first 4 weeks post) I didn't experience the flashes. Some women have been having meno flashes probably even prior to tx so I don't think those women should worry. But anyhow I was talking to a member and he said he had hot flashes through tx until he cleared which led me to believe that 'in my case,' what I thought was true. But again please everyone don't think every hot flash is the virus. Its not necessarily true at all. I had other things start at the same exact time - the numbness and all that, so I knew - as another member mentioned that relapsed - you just know when it is happening (thats if you have symptoms).

I hope everyone doesn't worry about relapsing now. I had to share my symptoms - thats the only way we can all try to make sense out of any of this, by comparing notes.

see ya later.
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146021 tn?1237204887
Hi sweetie, why do you think Myown suspected from having hot flashes? Of course I'm mildly panicking. I'm more upset that Rick and M/O have the virus than I am about the posibility of having it myself. It makes me crazy that this is happening.
How are you doing? Slowly coming back to life? I am letting myself get to busy, but I have an hour and a 1/2 drive to work still, which is my quiet time. I really enjoy the beauty of the fields, the rolling green pastures, cows grazing, clouds drifting by overhead, miles and miles of an artists landscape and it's all mine for free....3 hrs a day!
Wish I were here on the forum more but my time is filled with running to catch up on all I let go. We had a yard sale today to get rid of 30 yrs of junk. Nothing like a clean sweep!
Take care, hugs,
Bug
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