I'm having a hot flush.. wtf

equalsql

I thought only women got these when they were going through  the men-on-pause.
I've just sunk a nice cold tube of Asashi...
I'm 'only' 57...   

I'd ask doctor Internet, but last time I did this concerning an in-growing toenail, he said I probably had six months to live.

Any of you other old timers getting these?

mart

No, not myself, but a friend did. He died six months later. 

equalsql

mart said:

No, not myself, but a friend did. He died six months later. 

Oh shit.... I better buy that Harley.. and that Gibson R9...and each one of those Kingsley pedals.

Flink_Poyd

I'll be having one tomorrow. The wife cooked me some pork fried rice with bird eye chilli's in it.

spark240

Blood pressure....

scrumhalf

mart said:

No, not myself, but a friend did. He died six months later. 

Yes, but the truck that hit him was going at a fair old pace.

strumjoughlamps

spark240 said:

Blood pressure....

I'd more say blood sugar..

Time to go pharmacy for a diabetes test.

mart

scrumhalf said:

mart said:

No, not myself, but a friend did. He died six months later. 

Yes, but the truck that hit him was going at a fair old pace.

Ha! I'd always thought it was you driving it, you bastard.

BGG

I get them real bad but have recently been diagnosed with a prolactinoma, which is benign swelling of the pituitary
  gland.

Drew_TNBD

What is a hot flush?

WezV

Drew_TNBD said:

What is a hot flush?

You will find out when your ovaries give up

Drew_TNBD

WezV said:

Drew_TNBD said:

What is a hot flush?

You will find out when your ovaries give up

I donated my ovaries to a tramp. He gave me a can of SKOL.

StanleyAccrington

I'm approaching 60. I get hot flushes. 
1) It's humid. 2)I'm getting a chest infection. 3)My prostate is enlarged.    Same outcome!!

holnrew

I usually get them when I'm feeling run down.

Philly_Q

By hot flush do you mean suddenly feeling very hot and a bit faint, sweating profusely?  I used to get that every now and then, until I found out I was diabetic a few years ago.  

Which isn't to suggest you're diabetic.  I had the same issue decades ago, long before the diabetes, even when I was a kid.  In those days it would usually be in very hot weather and I'd quickly have something to eat or drink - which may have made things worse if it was actually blood-sugar related.

The only time it's happened to me recently was a couple of weeks ago - again, very hot day, I had lunch with my dad and my brother then got massively sweaty when I went to work in the afternoon, despite the air-con in our office.  I blamed it on the heat on the Tube, but it was probably down to the ill-advised cider I had with lunch, something I haven't drunk for the last five years or so.

If you haven't had any kind of medical checkup for a while it wouldn't do any harm to take a blood test.