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What To Do If Having Hot Flashes After Many Chemo Treatments And Radiation Treatments?
Breezed thru 4 chemo treatments and almost done with 35 radiation treatments/lumpectomy. I am 57 and in good physical health. Question: Hot flashes are my biggest complaint. Anything you can recommend to calm them down? Do they normally go away after several months?
Tue, 27 May 2014
Hot flashes can be calmed down by eating one or two servings of soy foods , such as low-fat varieties of tofu, tempeh, soymilk, or roasted soy nuts
Supplements containing certain herbs like black cohosh, such as Remifemin decrease hot flashes
Hormone therapy with estrogen is the most effective treatment for hot flashes
Women with a uterus need to combine estrogen with a progestogen.
If it has not been a full year since your last period and you are a healthy nonsmoker, you may consider a combination estrogen-progestin birth control pill. This will provide This will provide contraception, hot flash relief and regular period.
Regards
DR De
Supplements containing certain herbs like black cohosh, such as Remifemin decrease hot flashes
Hormone therapy with estrogen is the most effective treatment for hot flashes
Women with a uterus need to combine estrogen with a progestogen.
If it has not been a full year since your last period and you are a healthy nonsmoker, you may consider a combination estrogen-progestin birth control pill. This will provide This will provide contraception, hot flash relief and regular period.
Regards
DR De
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