{"id":1956,"date":"2011-02-25T10:09:50","date_gmt":"2011-02-25T17:09:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/?p=1956"},"modified":"2025-11-02T21:13:57","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T04:13:57","slug":"hot-flashes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/?p=1956","title":{"rendered":"Hot Flashes"},"content":{"rendered":"

As you know, if you’ve been reading or know me personally, I’ve been enjoying peri-menopause for the last 2-3 years.\u00a0 It caused me to re-evaluate my life.\u00a0 Made me remember the libido I had as a young woman (and then tripled it lol).\u00a0 It also made me experience aspects of my menstrual cycle I’ve never had to deal with before.\u00a0 (And no, I’ll spare you the details!\u00a0 hahaha)<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

But one thing I haven’t experienced so far were the fabled hot flashes.\u00a0 I do seem to NOT feel the cold as much, but that could be my changed metabolism from going to the gym 5 days a week.\u00a0 I have as of yet, NOT felt like the room had suddenly gone up 30 degrees.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Until today.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

But it wasn’t really a hot flash.\u00a0 What happened to me I could only call a lust flash.\u00a0 A wave of intense desire just engulfed my entire body.\u00a0 And for no discernible reason.\u00a0 I wasn’t watching porn or flirting with anyone.\u00a0 I wasn’t writing or planning a sex scene.\u00a0 I was driving my car.\u00a0 To my mother’s, to work.\u00a0 With my kids in the car.\u00a0 Not near ovulation nor about to start my menstrual cycle. \u00a0 Not a man in sight, nor my mind anywhere near the opposite sex, or any sex for that matter!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

And wham… desire literally floods through me. \u00a0 It felt like I was on a bed in the throes of wonderful foreplay.\u00a0 I squirmed once in the seat of my car while turning a corner and had a mini-orgasm!\u00a0 Minutes later.. the feeling was gone.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Like I said… a Lust Flash.
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Nothing like that had ever happened to me before.\u00a0 Oh, I’ve been ruled by lust before.\u00a0 When I’m flirting, of course.\u00a0 Doubly so if I’m near ovulation when I’m flirting.\u00a0 And of course, after a weekend of sex my body just wants more and more. <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

But all those times there was a clear reason to feel desire and lust.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Today, I can’t think of a one. <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

UPDATE Days later:<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

I don’t immediately post things RIGHT when they happen.\u00a0 That’s what Facebook’s for!\u00a0 But a day and a half after my lust flash I started my period.\u00a0 Four days early… thank you Menopause. \u00a0 So what I actually experienced was a hormone dump signaling my body to start the cycle.\u00a0 And my body’s reaction to it.
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Wow.\u00a0\u00a0 That’s a new one, even for me.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

In the words of Spock (or Sheldon)\u00a0\u00a0 Fascinating!<\/em>
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