Hot Flashes at 21 years old?!

[Cwilliams1989]

For two days now I've been suffering from severe hot flashes. I don't know any other way to describe it than just that. I get a heat wave over me and start sweating very heavily for anywhere between 5 minutes to maybe 20 minutes tops. Then I cool down for awhile. But I'll get another one later. It happened at work yesterday and then again today and when I complained about the heat, I seemed to be the only one affected.

My periods are highly irregular. I skip a month or two sometimes and about once a year I carry over longer than I should (one year it was for two months, another for four months -- that one I went to the hospital for because it got so bad) so the doctors think I might have a hormone imbalance , but due to the economy and my lack of insurance, I haven't been able to get back to the doctor to continue tests to see what is wrong with me.

If it is already suspected that I might have a hormone imbalance, would these new hot flashes I'm experiencing go along with that? I've never had them before but they are quite irritating. Should I be concerned about this? I wasn't expecting to have hot flashes at 21 years old!

[Cwilliams1989]

Wow. I've never had them before. Ever. But just like you said, I got my period about a week later and they've left now. I still get hot, but not like that, and at least when I'm hot now I'm not the only one. But wow. Thank you so much for your help!

[bbgbb]

i'm 22 and i always get hot flashes the days coming up to my period and very much the day before my period. it feels like heat is running over my body and coming from within, i'm having one right now actually lol. so i think it is just hormones. iv had it for years :)