Not All Hot Flashes Mean Menopause
Season 1, Episode 53, Dec 22, 2022, 01:10 AM
If you‘re 48 years old and are flashing all day and all night, odds are your broken internal thermostat is a sign of low estrogen. BUT MENOPAUSE IS NOT THE ONLY THING THAT CAUSES HOT FLASHES! This segment goes through all the other reasons that someone has hot flashes.
In this episode, Dr. Streicher covers:
In this episode, Dr. Streicher covers:
- What a woman experiences when she has a hot flash
- Typical situations in which hot flashes are NOT because of menopause
- Medical conditions and medications that can trigger hot flashes
More Information on Hot Flashes
Hot Flash Hell: A Gynecologist's Guide to Turning Down the Heat
Episode 2:Think Your Hot Flashes Can't Kill You? Think Again!
Episode 23: Welcome to Peri-menopause
Episode 31 The TRUTH About Hormone Therapy: Does it CAUSE or Does it PREVENT Breast Cancer?
Episode 32: Are Your Hot Flashes Making You Foggy: Forgetful? with Dr. Pauline Maki
Episode 36 How to Know You are in Menopause if You Never Get Periods
Lauren Streicher, MD is a clinical professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine and the founding medical director of the Northwestern Medicine Center for Sexual Medicine and Menopause. She is a certified menopause practitioner of the North American Menopause Society.
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Books by Lauren Streicher, MD
Slip Sliding Away: Turning Back the Clock on Your Vagina-A gynecologist’s guide to eliminating post-menopause dryness and pain
Hot Flash Hell: A Gynecologist's Guide to Turning Down the Heat
Sex Rx- Hormones, Health, and Your Best Sex Ever
The Essential Guide to Hysterectomy
Hot Flash Hell: A Gynecologist's Guide to Turning Down the Heat
Episode 2:Think Your Hot Flashes Can't Kill You? Think Again!
Episode 23: Welcome to Peri-menopause
Episode 31 The TRUTH About Hormone Therapy: Does it CAUSE or Does it PREVENT Breast Cancer?
Episode 32: Are Your Hot Flashes Making You Foggy: Forgetful? with Dr. Pauline Maki
Episode 36 How to Know You are in Menopause if You Never Get Periods
Lauren Streicher, MD is a clinical professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine and the founding medical director of the Northwestern Medicine Center for Sexual Medicine and Menopause. She is a certified menopause practitioner of the North American Menopause Society.
Sign up to receive DR. STREICHER’S FREE NEWSLETTER
Dr. Streicher is the medical correspondent for Chicago’s top-rated news program, the WGN Morning News, and has been seen on The Today Show, Good Morning America, The Oprah Winfrey Show, CNN, NPR, Dr. Radio, Nightline, Fox and Friends, The Steve Harvey Show, CBS This Morning, ABC News Now, NBCNightlyNews,20/20, and World News Tonight. She is an expert source for many magazines and serves on the medical advisory board of The Kinsey Institute, Self Magazine, and Prevention Magazine. She writes a regular column for The Ethel by AARP and Prevention Magazine.
Sign Up to receive Dr. Streicher’s Free Newsletter:
Instagram @DrStreich
Twitter @DrStreicher
Facebook @DrStreicher
YouTube DrStreicherTV
Books by Lauren Streicher, MD
Slip Sliding Away: Turning Back the Clock on Your Vagina-A gynecologist’s guide to eliminating post-menopause dryness and pain
Hot Flash Hell: A Gynecologist's Guide to Turning Down the Heat
Sex Rx- Hormones, Health, and Your Best Sex Ever
The Essential Guide to Hysterectomy