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"8.1 years.That&amp;#039;s how long a new study published in Obstetrics and Gynecology revealed that women experience moderate to severe hot flashes. . The most common age for the onset of this symptom? 45 to 49 years. While &amp;quot;clinical guidelines indicate that the duration of hot flushes for most women is approximately 6 months to 2 years,&amp;quot; wrote researchers, &amp;quot;the median duration of hot flushes considerably exceeded the timeframe that is generally accepted in clinical practice.&amp;quot; In other words, hot flashes last a heck of a lot longer than practitioners thought. In fact, the study also revealed that some women with severe hot flashes suffer for 10.2 years, depending on how close they were to the menopause transition; those whose symptoms started closest to menopause, averaged only 3.84 years; those who started experiencing hot flashes earlier in the transition had symptoms that lasted for 11.34 years. 11 years! I don&amp;#039;t know about you, but I think that&amp;#039;s an awfully long time to be subject to blasts of hot and cold from a wacky internal regulator. What else? Hot flashes peak about 1 year after menopause, wrote the researchers, and last longer for African American women. And the study did suggest that younger, irregularly menstruating women \u2014 or those in the perimenopausal throes \u2014 be targeted for treatment, other than HT, which isn&amp;#039;t always &amp;quot;the ideal choice&amp;quot; for this population. I&amp;#039;m one of those women, and at two or three years into this process, I find the thought of another 7 years to be some kind of circle of hell. Though I&amp;#039;m somewhat used to being woken up a few times a night sweating profusely, and to the fact that if I drink a cup of hot tea or the occasional glass of wine, I&amp;#039;ll pay for it in hot flashes later, I can&amp;#039;t quite wrap my mind around the 8 or 10 year term. I wished someone had clued me in earlier. What about you reader? Did you know about this long haul? "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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