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"Perimenopause is not a disease. But sometimes it feels that way. And lately I keep wondering if some of the symptoms are normal or not. For instance, I&amp;#039;ll be overcome by a hot flash. Nothing new. But this will be accompanied by a wave of nausea and dizziness so great that I feel I must lie down. Immediately. And it&amp;#039;s the latter feelings that on the increase. So I&amp;#039;ve been asking friends, acquaintances, family: Do you feel ill when you have a hot flash? &amp;quot;Sometimes,&amp;quot; says one woman after a long pause, which makes me think that her sometimes is far different from my daily. My sister, though, knew exactly what I meant. &amp;quot;Yes!&amp;quot; she said. &amp;quot;I felt the same way. Dizzy. Nauseous. Sick. And no one tell you this.&amp;quot; My mother used to faint from her hot flashes, an unusual symptom, but one that caused her doctor to put her on HRT for 20 years. So this makes me wonder: Could the way you experience hot flashes be genetic? Is the particular experience a heritable trait? I tend toward the hypochondrial, which I don&amp;#039;t think is necessarily a bad thing, as so many women I know put themselves last when it comes to getting things checked out. But for me, it&amp;#039;s time for a full checkup. I can imagine all kinds of worst case scenarios to account for the dizziness, the fatigue, the heart palpitations, and nausea, and this only contributes to making me feel worse. But I&amp;#039;m curious, reader. Do you feel ill when you have a hot flash? What&amp;#039;s this experience like for you? "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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