Do any of you guys, no matter what your age, have hot flashes? Suddenly, for no reason, you just start heating up and sweating a bit, then it disappears after 10-15 minutes?

I'm not ashamed to say that I have them, and (in addition to night sweats) research has shown me that guys who are my age (34) can have them due to a hypothalamus dysfunction, since that little batch of brain cells controls internal body temperature and temperature response.

I'm beginning to see a pattern: slow/nonexistant muscle growth, hot flashes, night sweats, fatigue, sleep problems, depression - all symptoms of male menopause. But how can that be when I am only 34? Well... all of those hormones that control all of that stuff come from the hypothalamus... The same thing that is theorized causes cluster headaches... So if I have something wrong with that bad boy, it could be causing ALL of my problems.

Now if only there was a way to test, image, etc so the docs could see if my hypothalamus was working properly.... So do any of you guys have night sweats and/or hot flashes?

There are pictures/scans done by Dr. Goadsby which show that our little cluster head hypo thingy is all f'ed up.

I too have a slightly messed up temperature control. For the cold I'm pretty immune, often just wearing normal office clothes when others are in winter jackets. And similar for the hot, I can cope just fine with high temperatures. But then the odd thing is that I can suddenly feel pretty warm when the temperature is either normal or a bit warmer than normal.

Doctors have not found a reason for this, although one thing they did suspect is a thyroid issue which can cause simmilar symptoms, but the tests came back negative.

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I'd ask your doctors if this could be a cause for your symptoms.

Thanks guys, this makes me think that I am not alone - all the weird crap that has been happening to me over the past few years is starting to make a little more sense. Hormones are the little workers for everything in your body, and the hypothalamus is the master control for them... If it's screwed up, so are you.

*sigh* back to testing..... at least this time I have a target I am trying to hit, not just Neuro's, ENTs, Psychiatrists, etc trying to find the bone needle in a haystack....

I think i'm leaning toward Aussie on this one. May want to draw blood work.

Coach Billy

Manopause...Love it!!!!

Joe

yes happens to me almost everyday. I cna be sitting in my lay boy with the a/c on and wham out of the blue I start burning up...
strange....huh

Ditto on the Pred.
On my last cycle had night time sweats every night for 2 weeks during the Pred taper. So bad I had to get up and dry myself off and go and sleep on the couch (not pleasant to sleep next to!)
My wife thought she had the rights on hot sweats but I'm sure gave her a run for her money during that time.
Still get infrequent temp rises out of nowhere while out of cycle but that could just be an age thing.

About a month ago, during what looked like the onset of a new cycle (I think I stopped it) I did experience hot flashes. I'm 43 and a CH sufferer since I was 11 and that's a first.

I think the reason is significant changes in testosterone which is know to happen during cycles. Another simple way to look at it: CH involves a malfunction in the hypothalamus which is, among other things, our body temperature regulator.