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Posted 20 Dec 2025 at 14:20

If you have hot flushes and wake bathed in sweat, surely you need to replace the fluids and possibly salts you're losing? Isn't it important to keep up your fluid intake ? 

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Posted 21 Dec 2025 at 09:50

Antoinette, I walked with my neighbours and their dogs for about about 40 minutes each weekday, but would then come home and fall asleep. We got a 7 month old puppy two weeks ago, combined with putting the house back together it has not given me time to sit and fall asleep during the day and I now walk 7 days a week.


Understand the stress of family issues,we have had a bad year on that front but hopefully treatment was successful. 


Thanks Chris 

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Posted 21 Dec 2025 at 13:23
Chris and Antoinette, wishing you both the very best. @Antoinette, my OH keeps a bottle of water by the bed. He gets thirsty from the sweats that can happen at any time, day or night, even if he then has to wee it out during the night. Anything that is nice and reduces stress is good for him. He walks miles every day. At first it was less because of surgery + radiation + ADT. But now it is more than ever before. I would think decorating for Christmas with family would be doable and good for all.
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Posted 20 Dec 2025 at 21:05

Antoinette, my hot flushes are always very dry and not usually in bed. 


Thanks Chris 

User
Posted 20 Dec 2025 at 21:30

Chris everyone is different by the sound of it. Someone said Acupuncture is helpful sometimes too

User
Posted 21 Dec 2025 at 00:59

Antoinette, I did try acupuncture for hot flushes, fatigue and a trapped nerve. It may have helped but I stopped the acupuncture to concentrate on the trapped nerve with a physiotherapist. 


We have had some building work done at home and we are trying to get the house back into some sort of normality,so I have been far more active in the past couple of weeks, the fatigue and hot flushes have reduced greatly. I had my decapeptyl injection last week so I assume that is back at full strength in the body. 


As you say we are all different.


Thanks Chris 

User
Posted 21 Dec 2025 at 09:25

Chris, I'm hoping because he's quite active, going for a longish walk most days etc, he will not be too bad. I sympathise with the house issue!


We have a great deal of stress at the moment too as our daughter is leaving her partner of 10 years over the New Year. We are very concerned about our 2 granddaughters who don't know yet. Also our daughter completes on her own house on 22nd Dec. They plan to share the children We are hoping to help her decorate a bit. The bedroom for the granddaughters is a priority,.  He's very active but I'm just worried for him, and don't want him to over do it. I'm a good decorator too.


Not to mention the personal stuff which I can't talk to my daughter about! We can talk to each other 


 

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Posted 21 Dec 2025 at 09:50

Antoinette, I walked with my neighbours and their dogs for about about 40 minutes each weekday, but would then come home and fall asleep. We got a 7 month old puppy two weeks ago, combined with putting the house back together it has not given me time to sit and fall asleep during the day and I now walk 7 days a week.


Understand the stress of family issues,we have had a bad year on that front but hopefully treatment was successful. 


Thanks Chris 

User
Posted 21 Dec 2025 at 13:23
Chris and Antoinette, wishing you both the very best. @Antoinette, my OH keeps a bottle of water by the bed. He gets thirsty from the sweats that can happen at any time, day or night, even if he then has to wee it out during the night. Anything that is nice and reduces stress is good for him. He walks miles every day. At first it was less because of surgery + radiation + ADT. But now it is more than ever before. I would think decorating for Christmas with family would be doable and good for all.
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Posted 21 Dec 2025 at 14:26

Well it would be, just very concerned about girls, 4.5 and 7.5. Daughter is main wage earner, partner dropped to 4 days a week 7 years ago. So girls quite involved with daddy but hopefully with all our support will get through it.  


I'm keeping husbands needs in first place at the moment. 


Thank you for your good thoughts x 

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Posted 21 Dec 2025 at 19:40
Think I suggested acupuncture for the hot flushes and it was pretty successful for me and I had pretty good hot flushes day&night despite trying to keepfairly active. I was on Zoladex for 3yrs with abiraterone,enzalutimide,prednisolone included for 2yrs on trial.
I still worked at the time, office work and cos I was a bit embarrassed with the hot flushes/sweating I wore a jumper or cardigan to hide the sweat marks under my arms, it didnt obviously help the hot flushes.
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Posted 21 Dec 2025 at 20:07

You did very well working too. We are retired so he can please himself to some extent although we do lots and are very sociable. I can imagine it's embarrassing if you're out socialising.  He's also choosing not to tell everyone at present, because they will be forever asking how he is etc . I totally agree with him for now. It's a tight knit village community.


I've also bought this Embr wave device for menopausal hot flushes. I saw someone recommended it somewhere. 


He's told family obviously and 2 close old school friends, both of whom have had cancer. I hope we're positive because his father had prostate cancer in the 1990s, recovered and lived to be 93. So he asked for the PSA test a few years ago 

 
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