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From: Beverly...cwlistmom <cwlistmom@...>

The night sweats are extremely rare, but lately the cheeks on my face turn
bright red and the sweat starts running down my back for no apparent reason.

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Yeah, isn't that just the most fun thing? I often have hot flashes/flushes
in the morning shortly after I get up. So there I sit across the breakfast
table from my husband, red-faced, dripping sweat, fanning away with the
newspaper

I also tend to experience it when I first arrive somewhere. For instance, I
work a lot of SPCA information booths at local malls. It always seems that
for the first 20 minutes or so I do the same thing -- bright red face, sweat
pouring. One day I was working with another volunteer and she was fanning
away. She commented to me that she must be going through menopause.
I looked at her, said, "Thank God" and now we both laugh and fan and sweat
our way through the first little while at the booths! At least I don't feel
self-
conscious knowing we're both going through it. Just call us the menopausal
mall queens.....

Pat
chinutt@...