Back to the CH heated throw - they're found in Aldi or Lidl quite a lot. Around £30 with a 3 year warranty.
I'm menopausal and use one, despite the flushes. I can NEVER get my feet and lower legs warm unless something (like my OH or a heated throw) is bouncing heating on them.
I feel for all you ladies who are going through this and also recommend the menopause matters site. I'm so fed up of going back and forth to my GP (where it's also a huge problem to get an appointment) to try to sort out my HRT. The last one I saw was a locus who spent ages looking through the drugs book for something for me, then told me to try this, giving me a script for exactly what I was already on!
I'm using patches at the mo but they're not helping my flushes at all. The tablets I initially tried were great for the first month, but I went into a mental decline until I had an emergency GP appointment several months later as I was suicidal. I then saw a psychiatrist who told me that I wasn't crazy, it was just the hormones from the tablets!
I've asked several times since for an appointment for a meno clinic only to be told there aren't any in Wales, so I asked for an appointment with a gynaecologist instead. I've finally had a referral on the 5th request. I have a neurological condition that the flushes make worse and guidelines say I should be referred on first request. But, there you go. The older I'm getting, the more disillusioned I am with the NHS. It's great for true emergencies, but no longer seems to be doing the trick for everyday problems. I used to work in the NHS and saw it going downhill due to so much money being spent on management and not enough on the people that actually run it.
And before anyone jumps in to defend managers - yes, I know we NEED them, but IME we had too many with much in-fighting and a LOT of very large egos needing constant massaging.
So, back to menopause. New guidelines have totally overturned the old warnings and I do believe that many women would be greatly helped by the RIGHT hormonal help. But I'm seeing a LOT of women being prescribed anti-depressants instead (I'm a long-term user so I know the effect won't always help flushes, but could be the right thing for ladies who can't take hormones).
Now, if only the GPs would keep up with current guidelines and then actually read a patient's notes (if the GP who prescribed my last lot is reading this - yes, I'm talking to YOU!), maybe we'd be treated properly for something that can really badly affect a lot of women's lives.
Rant over. If you wanted the throw, get one in Aldi/Lidl instead :mysmilie_11:
