if you have/had hot flashes with no sweating

[SparklyUnicorn]

Could you describe it?  Where on your body?  What does it feel like?  How long does it last?  Is there a time of day that is generally worse than others? 

 

I know, weird question. 

 

 

[historically accurate]

Mine looked like I was blushing, and had that heat that you get when blushing. Just a more extreme version of it. It lasted just a few seconds. My whole body got hot; I used to step outside in the winter in my (short) shirt sleeves. Dh joked I would melt the snow. No discernable pattern - they were pretty often for a couple of years after my hysterectomy, now they're pretty much gone (almost 7 years later). 

[trulycrabby]

Mine started off with no sweating, just a prickly feeling running up and down my arms, then an upper body flush. They have progressed to drenching sweats.

[G5052]

Thankfully they're very rare now, but I was usually just insanely hot. I sweated some, but not drenching. Night was worse for me. Sleeping with a fan on my face and very light covers pretty much does it.

[Pronghorn]

I feel hot all over and my ears turn red. I feel very thirsty. This lasts a few minutes. At night I stick my feet and arms out from under the covers to cool myself. I have been having these for a decade and a half or so, and they are less intense than they used to be. They usually come multiple times a day. A hot flash almost always comes after I go to bed, often thoroughly rousing me when I had been tired. They wake me up during the night and in the morning too. A drink of cold water as soon as the hot flash starts can make it less intense.

[Cinder]

Me. Hard to describe. Just all over heat. Only for a few seconds. No sweating. Like a wave of heat, I guess.

 

No pattern. I can go months without it. Tends to be a one off.

 

Pretty much this, but mostly just my upper body, especially around my neck. Like, I'm noticeably hot when no one else is. I also don't see a pattern; it's happened a handful of times in the past year.

[Bambam]

Just a sudden flash of heat - sometimes just my head, sometimes just my upper body - my feet and legs will still be cold, but my upper body feels like I'm just radiating heat - like a super bad sunburn. Then 1-5 minutes later, it is gone. I haven't noticed a pattern. 

[gardenmom5]

sometimes face

sometimes extremities

sometimes torso

any time of day.

[Pawz4me]

I have hot flashes with and without sweating. Mine tend to be more frequent later in the day and in the evening/during the night than in the morning. It's a feeling of intense heat radiating out from my body. Mostly the torso area. For a long time before I had the first honest to goodness hot flash I was a LOT warmer almost all the time than was typical for me. I don't think I sweated much more than normal, but I sure did run hotter.

[Barb_]

Mine are more like an inability to regulate body temperature--sort of like a fever. They begin with a sort of welling up of heat from my core that radiates outward to my extremities. It only lasts a few seconds and then I'm shivering with chills. Progesterone cream has helped a lot. Hope it doesn't give me cancer.

[KrissiK]

Me. Hard to describe. Just all over heat. Only for a few seconds. No sweating. Like a wave of heat, I guess.

 

No pattern. I can go months without it. Tends to be a one off.

That's pretty much like mine. It's an internal heat. Not necessarily an external one, if that makes sense. Doesn't last longer than 15-30 seconds. Usually in the middle of the night. Just long enough to throw the covers off and then I get cold and pull them back up again.

[Sharpie]

Me. Hard to describe. Just all over heat. Only for a few seconds. No sweating. Like a wave of heat, I guess.

 

No pattern. I can go months without it. Tends to be a one off.

 

This.  Inferno heat, mostly from the torso up, for about 10 seconds in duration.  I had them multiple times a day and night and suddenly they stopped for a few weeks.  Today they are back. 

[HomeAgain]

I just want to add, if you're having a patch of heat, you really want to get that checked out!  It can indicate something like a tumor if you are feeling a hot spot, not an all over hot flash.

[Martha in GA]

Interesting that others tend to experience hot flashes at night. I almost always have one upon waking in the morning. To me, if feels like the flush you get when you get embarrassed about something.

[dsmith]

Mine usually starts in my head. It almost feels like it's behind my sinuses. My face turns red, too. I don't sweat all the time, but if it's humid I do. I'm glad I just had a brain MRI after reading the above comment about tumors, or I'd be freaking out right now, lol. I always have a hot flash while eating dinner, about halfway through the meal. It doesn't help that my in-laws turn off the air conditioner at dinner. Next year it's going in the window that's behind me!

[OneStepAtATime]

Random locations at random times.  Sometimes mild sweating but mostly just incredibly intense heat sensation like the thermostat was turned up to 500 degrees.

[sbgrace]

Mine are almost always at night--fast come and then go. I just feel like the upper part of me is giving off intense heat. I throw off blankets and sheets and even sometimes my shirt, then I'm cold. It's quick and intense. Lately, I have started having sweating too occasionally.  

[Suzanne in ABQ]

I get different kinds of hot flashes.

 

When I first wake up, I get really hot for a couple minutes.  I know that once that happens, I will not go back to sleep, so I might as well get up (no matter what time it is).  Sometimes I wake to use the restroom, and don't get the hot flash.  That makes me happy for two reasons: 1) No hot flash. 2) I can go back to sleep.

 

Through the day, especially if I'm not well hydrated, I get my normal, run-of-the-mill hot flashes.  These generally manifest themselves gradually.  I just feel like I need to turn on a fan or something.  I usually ask, "Is it hot in here, or is it just me?" and get the response that it's not hot.  It's just me.  I just wait it out and it passes.

 

In the evening, though, whoa!  I'll get a wave of nausea, and I know it's coming.  Then I break out in a profuse sweating attack that generally amazes my dh.  He says he can feel the heat radiating off my body.  Then it passes and I feel chilled because my hair and clothes and skin are wet.  It's miserable, but it usually lasts exactly 3 minutes from nausea to chill.  

 

I have not had a period since last November.  I am looking forward to when this will be all over.  I have no idea when that will be.

[TheReader]

Mine were/are totally weird, and not at all like I imagined a hot flash would be like. At all. 

 

For starters, no "flash" about it for me....just....suddenly, I'm *really, really hot.* All over, hot. The first time it happened, it was so bad it was like being overheated, sick, etc, like when you've been in the sun for a really long time with no water, shade, etc. Just.....hot. No sweating, none of that, just....hot. 

 

Lately, they are more like just being a little hot, like I want my socks off, feet out of the covers, etc. Wondering if the A/C is on, even though I can hear it running. Or feeling like I need to change into shorts & a tank top vs jeans and a t-shirt. But, no sweating or anything, any of the times. 

 

Mine are usually an all-over feeling, and usually worse first thing in the morning, or middle of the night, but mostly I barely notice them yet. Sometimes they feel just like when I've been sitting in a hot tub for too long, that same kind of overheated feeling. 

 

Hope that helps....