Hot flushes and night sweats

The majority of women experience these at some time during the menopause. When we were thinking about setting up this website, we asked an independent research company to run a survey of 200 menopausal women, and 70% of those who reported symptoms had experienced these daytime hot flushes as well as night sweats.

There’s no telling when they’ll happen or how frequently. Some women experience mild symptoms, but others have reported quite distressingly severe hot flushes. They start in the core of the body and rapidly spread out to leave you hot, flushed and sweaty. In extreme cases you can end up with uncomfortably wet clothes.

At night you can awake, heart thumping, finding yourself with soggy pyjamas and unpleasantly damp and cold bedding – and an unhappy partner!

This can affect your life greatly, leading to a feeling of not being in control, with the general listlessness and lack of energy that goes with lack of sleep. It doesn’t help that we may be going through the menopause at the time of great turmoil in our domestic lives – children may be leaving home, decisions have to be made about our future lives and our partners may also be going through a form of male menopause, questioning their own futures etc.

We may be going back to work after a career break, having to share a workplace with much younger people – it can all lead to lack of confidence and unhappiness.

This is what got me started on this project – I tried to find clothes, bedding and products that would help me cope and it wasn’t easy. But with much research and help, we’ve come up with a range of products all aimed at specifically relieving the symptoms of the menopause experienced by so many women.

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