hot flash anyone? scaredy cat?

i was shopping and i started sweating and then felt all flushed - my cheeks were red.  i of course panicked since i had a sore throat too and though of course i'm getting a horrible infection. 

i went to urgent care and wasted my money of course.

he said with the few hives on my face and red cheeks he thought i had an allergic reaction.  i had been eating some See's chocolate the last few days i've never had before.  did a stre-p test test - nothing. 

so he gave me vistaril - haven't taken yet   - if you have have, does it make  you super drowsy??  i had taken 1/2 a klonopin since i was panicking so can't take it yet. 

anyway, did i have a hot flash i wonder?  i'm only 42 but maybe they are starting?  ugh  anyhone experience one and if so, how old were you?

It's hard to say if it was a hot-flash in the hormonal sense...or an anxiety symptom.

We are the same age, and while I difinitely have some 'peri' symptoms...I have not had a true hot flash. From what my sisters, mom and older friends describe, it is a different sensation then what I feel...which is more like what you described.

I get the sweaty/clammy feeling with a hot face sometimes, and I do think that it is anxiety symptom...I think that we are still a couple of years away from the hot-flash stage...which seems to be later on, towards the end of estrogen/progesterone production.

I hope that this was a little 'clearer than mud', Lol...it is all so confusing isn't it?;p

Here's to a better day for you and a great weekend for all of us!

S.C.