Hot flashes underreported and linked to forgetfulness?

Women unfortunately can all pretty much relate to these and I don’t think there’s one of us alive today that would rather do without these. After a period of time, we can easily recognize it when another woman is “flashing” and offer a brief moment of sympathy.

For the memory portion of this, I think perhaps there’s something to a new “cop out’ here creeping in. I’m certainly thinking about give it a try when under pressure…”gee I have no idea, I wash flashing at the time”, could cover a lot of evils and then some! Interesting study though in the amount of flashes we actually think we have, and then find out it’s more when comparing it to a monitor recording all. Chances are we just remember the worst ones! With the average per day at 19, yes I can certainly agree with the statement as I would not be able to recite and remember 19 flashes a day as after a while they just all run together. BD

Women in midlife underreport the number of hot flashes that they experience by more than 40 percent, and these hot flashes are linked to poor verbal memory, according to a study by researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
"The problem is that the physiology of hot flashes and the science of hot flashes is more complex than we previously understood," she said.
The researchers enrolled 29 midlife women with moderate to severe hot flashes in an observational study. The women wore monitors that measured changes in skin conductance during a hot flash. Both subjective and objective hot flashes were recorded during a 24-hour period. The average number of objective hot flashes was 19.5 per day.