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!