These Hot Flashes are Killing Me!

[Yeoman Randi]

You know, that's so true. WHY do women have these horrible constant changes throughout their lives, while men pretty much coast through without all the hormonal shit we have to go throught? UNFAIR is putting it lightly!!

But we live longer

Also, we are more awesome.

You know, that's so true. WHY do women have these horrible constant changes throughout their lives, while men pretty much coast through without all the hormonal shit we have to go throught? UNFAIR is putting it lightly!!

But we live longer

Also, we are more awesome.

Eh. I'm pretty sure they go through man periods twice a month. Just they don't bleed.

HEH. I tried niacin a few years back for the memory loss....OMFG! IT WAS HORRIBLE! I felt like my head was going to spontaneously COMBUST! I cannot ever do that stuff...ever!!! I will be asking my GP about the products out there....thank you for the suggestion!

Yeah, niacin can be bad if I screw up. MUST be on a full stomach and take a couple of baby aspirin. If I didn’t eat enough dinner, have a snack or another baby aspirin. Feels itchy, like a cactus is lightly touching you. And turning hot and red. All over. At worst, I’ve had some welts. The doctor said one patient called the office yelling, “That bitch (the doctor) is trying to kill me!” It was “just” a side-effect.

Here. This describes me, every day, post menopause.

OMG!!!! This is priceless! AND IT IS ME!!!!!!!! Thank you! I am literally sitting here laughing so hard that i am crying!!!!!

 

[Yeoman Randi]

But we live longer

Also, we are more awesome.

On your first point: in our case it will most likely be because i'll kill him with my bare hands! (I swear the tornado in my chest is unbelievable at times.)

On your second point: YES!

Eh. I'm pretty sure they go through man periods twice a month. Just they don't bleed.

I'm curious if you are kidding or if you really think men do have some sort of hormonal thing going on monthly? That's interesting and if you do believe that, i'd love to hear more about it.

But we do have our own kind of pain, you know. Like getting kicked in the nads, or being New York Mets fans. At this point I'm not sure which is worse.

I'd say it's a toss-up!

 

[propita]

You know, that's so true. WHY do women have these horrible constant changes throughout their lives, while men pretty much coast through without all the hormonal shit we have to go throught? UNFAIR is putting it lightly!!

But we live longer

Also, we are more awesome.

Eh. I'm pretty sure they go through man periods twice a month. Just they don't bleed.

TWICE a month?!!

When Hubby’s driving me crazy cause he’s in a funk for days, I say, “It’s his time of the DAY.”


I personally think that men do have a hormonal thing going on a lot. Was that report that men think about sex 8 times a day true? Think of how many hormones are going through them if they actually focus on that thought even 3 times a day. Draws blood away from the brain, too, so their thinking’s affected.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

^ As Robin Williams once said, God gave men two brains...but only enough blood to run one at a time.

 

[scottydog]

^ As Robin Williams once said, God gave men two brains...but only enough blood to run one at a time.

Even in my middle age, one of my brains still seems to be more in charge than the other.

 

[propita]

^ As Robin Williams once said, God gave men two brains...but only enough blood to run one at a time.

Blood can only be in one place at a time: in the brain for thinking, in the stomach for digesting, on the genitals for sex.

Never ask a man to think while making love. Never ask a man to make love after eating a big meal--either no love or indigestion. Never ask a man to think after eating a big meal--that's why people settle in to watch even lousy football games after Thanksgiving meals--no thinking is possible.

Best course of action: Make love and work up an appetite, then think about food, then eat food!

 

[HoneyBLilly]

Eh. I'm pretty sure they go through man periods twice a month. Just they don't bleed.

I'm curious if you are kidding or if you really think men do have some sort of hormonal thing going on monthly? That's interesting and if you do believe that, i'd love to hear more about it.

I definitely believe it.

I noticed it with my father before he died, I noticed it with my little brothers when they turned thirteen/fourteen, I notice it with my mother's fiancé(but he's an ass anyways), and I notice it with my husband.

There are just certain times of the month where they're like a bear with a thorn in it's paw. And for some reason it is more often than not synonymous with the full moon.

Otherwise, they're just big babies when they're sick.

 

[Yeoman Randi]

HUH! Im going to have to pay a little more attention to that. Although, generally, my husband is extremely even tempered, except of late, but we have shit going on with the FIL right now that would make Santa Claus homicidal. So i would be hard pressed to say he gets hormonal under normal circumstances.

 

[Deckerd]

I don't suppose it's particularly sensitive at this juncture to point out that there is another end of the spectrum? Some people make the transition without any change whatsoever, like I've been doing since last summer. Nothing out of the ordinary to report, aside from saving some money every month. Maybe because I'm a 'late developer' compared to the ages I'm seeing here?

 

[Yeoman Randi]

^ Lucky you! I'm sure there ARE people out there like you who pass through it with ease. i suspect my mother did too, as i've asked her about her experience and she can't remember a thing about it. Although all her pill popping may have fuzzied her memory up a bit.

I'd give anything to slide through it with ease. Are you in peri-menopause or full fledged? I went through peri for ten long years and it wasn't terrible except for the night sweats which i was able to control with the soy milk. Unfortunately even that doesn't help now. Do you do anything in particular that might be helping you?

 

[Yeoman Randi]

I definitely believe it.

I noticed it with my father before he died, I noticed it with my little brothers when they turned thirteen/fourteen, I notice it with my mother's fiancé(but he's an ass anyways), and I notice it with my husband.

There are just certain times of the month where they're like a bear with a thorn in it's paw. And for some reason it is more often than not synonymous with the full moon.

Otherwise, they're just big babies when they're sick.

Heh, isn't that true about them being babies when they are sick? OMG! When i'm sick, the laundry still gets done, food shopping, cooking (although yeah, it may just be soup and sandwhich those nights), sheets get changed, bank deposits made, yadda yadda. When my husband has a cold (A COLD!) he is on the couch and USELESS. God that drives me crazy!

I can definitely see the hormonal thing with boys when they enter puberty.

I don't know how long it's been since you lost your dad, but my sincere condolences. {{{squishy hug}}}. I lost mine in '03 and i've never recovered. It doesn't get 'easier', you just 'accept' it more. He was my best friend.

 

[Deckerd]

^ Lucky you! I'm sure there ARE people out there like you who pass through it with ease. i suspect my mother did too, as i've asked her about her experience and she can't remember a thing about it. Although all her pill popping may have fuzzied her memory up a bit.

I'd give anything to slide through it with ease. Are you in peri-menopause or full fledged? I went through peri for ten long years and it wasn't terrible except for the night sweats which i was able to control with the soy milk. Unfortunately even that doesn't help now. Do you do anything in particular that might be helping you?

Nope, not sure what peri- means. They simply stopped; I just stopped ovulating with no other symptoms. I didn't even notice at first. The women in my family ovulate into their 50s so perhaps that has something to do with it. My mother didn't notice either, so I guess I get it from her. Mind you, and I think this is probably the crux, I never had any PMS or any of the other mood swings women suffer from. My family obviously got off easy.

 

[Yeoman Randi]

OMG! That's awesome. Lucky you!

 

[HoneyBLilly]

Heh, isn't that true about them being babies when they are sick? OMG! When i'm sick, the laundry still gets done, food shopping, cooking (although yeah, it may just be soup and sandwhich those nights), sheets get changed, bank deposits made, yadda yadda. When my husband has a cold (A COLD!) he is on the couch and USELESS. God that drives me crazy!

It's so annoying! I didn't believe either of my sisters when I got married, I just thought they were joking and plus my sister Jo's husband is just an ass, but OMG I want to shoot my husband when he's sick!

And he's a doctor too. He should have some magical remedy to stay away from being sick.

Hell, when I was on bed rest when I was pregnant with our son I was still cleaning, cooking, fixing up the nursery(which wasn't used until December, and Liam was born in August), and walking the dogs, etc. So much for bed rest.

Even after miscarriages when he himself has ordered me to be in bed for a day or two I'm still up and doing housework.

But when he gets just a tiny little stuffy nose it's like the whole world is ending.

I can definitely see the hormonal thing with boys when they enter puberty.

I think their puberty lasts their whole life. It would explain a lot.

I don't know how long it's been since you lost your dad, but my sincere condolences. {{{squishy hug}}}. I lost mine in '03 and i've never recovered. It doesn't get 'easier', you just 'accept' it more. He was my best friend.

Thank you.

He died back in 2001 from colon cancer, we used to make jokes that he waited to get sick until after DS9, and waited to die until after Voyager since he wanted to finish it out.

But my deepest condolences to you, I wish I had a good relationship with my father, but that must have made it harder.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

^ I sympathize with both of you.

My dad is the greatest - I'm 41 years old and I still look up to him. He's just this side of godhood in my view. I would be totally lost without him. I know he's not getting any younger but neither am I. So I am treasuring every moment on this earth I have with him.

 

[HoneyBLilly]

Even if this isn't true, which is probably isn't, it would make so much sense. LOL!

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Do_men_ha...d=1&rtitle=Do_men_have_periods_too&isLookUp=1

 

[propita]

^ I sympathize with both of you.

My dad is the greatest - I'm 41 years old and I still look up to him. He's just this side of godhood in my view. I would be totally lost without him. I know he's not getting any younger but neither am I. So I am treasuring every moment on this earth I have with him.

Keep treasuring.

Four years ago today I watched my father die in a hospital. My health took a tumble after that (the stress of law school wasn't helping). Hubby says that Dad and I were so much alike and that Dad was the one person who understood me the best, that part of me died. Like we were twins--or I was a female clone of him. Seriously, I am frighteningly like him. Which is a consolation, but also frustrating at times.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

^ As Robin Williams once said, God gave men two brains...but only enough blood to run one at a time.

Blood can only be in one place at a time: in the brain for thinking, in the stomach for digesting, on the genitals for sex.

ON the genitals? Now that's a kind of sex I could do without.

 

[ShamelessMcBundy]

Sounds kinky though.

But i've said it before and i'll say it again: I'm so glad i'm a guy!