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Article: Hot Enough For You?; It's Not the Humidity. It's Hot Flashes, and It's Time to Do . . . Something. Um, What?
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- July 27, 2004
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The curse is lifting, but the heat is on. Your own private heat.
Summer in Washington, times 10. We're talking hot flashes -- power
surges, flop sweats, melted mascara, nightly trips to the equator,
tomato face, armpit swimming pool. Don't you want to jump right in?
Me neither. Especially not at this particular historic moment,
when the pills of choice for menopausal symptoms are out of favor and
we women are stranded like dogs in parked cars. (Can somebody please
crack a window?)
Hormones work but are now recommended only for the shortest time
and the hardest hit. Antidepressants show promise for treating hot
flashes but only for the adventurous. (We brake for side effects.) So
what about ...