Hot Flashes????

[Eunuchus]

I am experiencing what I think could be Hot Flashes. They come and go at any given time of the day. Some last longer than others.
It is weird, some flashes make me feel like I just ate a spicy meal or hot peppers. Does that sound like what any of you have experienced??

[jako9999]

I get between 5 to 10 per day when awake there not to bad and seem worce if the room is hot or I eat hot food its the ones at night that wake you that I hate but there is no way round them, already having low T gives you more female ways and looks so if you take estrogen to stop them you will just get other problems.
Thanks

[Eunuchus]

Are you on male HRT ?

[janekane]

For what I am about to do, please, I beseech you, consider forgiving me....

The biology of homeostasis is a form of feedback regulation system, which has a set-point, an error detector, an amplifier and a control process. Hormone levels are regulated through biological feedback systems. When some aspect of the feedback regulation system (such as testicles not responding to a difference between a person's testosterone set point and testosterone level because of, "what testicles?") the feedback system for regulating testosterone levels has been significantly modified from the way it was when testicles reported being "present and accounted for."

Not everyone has studied feedback systems as an engineering student. I did.

For anyone interested, I found some information on Wikipedia, under the topics, "Nyquist plot" and "Nyquist stability criterion"

If a person's testosterone regulation system has high enough "gain" and an odd number of encirclements of (-1 + 0i) (where "i" is the positive square root of -1), then the person's testosterone regulation system will oscillate. And such oscillation will be experienced by many folks as "hot flashes."

HRT can change the Nyquist plot so that an odd number of encirclements of (-1 + 0i)j are not present and "hot flashes" will cease. Some herbs may also change the feedback system so that there is no odd number of encirclements of (-1 + 0i) according to some "natural medicine" texts I have read. As I am not an herbalist, I can neither confirm nor refute that.

Some women, during menopause, report having serious to incapacitating hot flashes, other women report never having even one hot flash. Some men, after orchiectomy and without HRT report never having one hot flash. My mother was one such woman, I am one such eunuch.

Because of familial adenomatous polyposis, my orchiectomy choice now appears to have been simple. With testicles and terminal cancer, my testicles would have died like my dad's and brother's did. At an age .far younger than I am now. My mind admonished me to allow that my mind would work far better in a body with a living brain and no testicles than in a dead and decomposing or cremated body

[_g]

If the Hot Flashes, are a problem you have a few choices:

1) Do nothing and wait for your body to adjust and the Hot Flashes stop anywhere form a month to a year or more,

2) Take testosterone (HRT and adjust the dosage for desired effect)

or

3) Take Estrogen (feminization will happen regardless if you do not take any HRT, but taking estrogen will just speed things up)

_g

[devi]

For what I am about to do, please, I beseech you, consider forgiving me....

The biology of homeostasis is a form of feedback regulation system, which has a set-point, an error detector, an amplifier and a control process. Hormone levels are regulated through biological feedback systems. When some aspect of the feedback regulation system (such as testicles not responding to a difference between a person's testosterone set point and testosterone level because of, "what testicles?") the feedback system for regulating testosterone levels has been significantly modified from the way it was when testicles reported being "present and accounted for."

Not everyone has studied feedback systems as an engineering student. I did.

For anyone interested, I found some information on Wikipedia, under the topics, "Nyquist plot" and "Nyquist stability criterion"

If a person's testosterone regulation system has high enough "gain" and an odd number of encirclements of (-1 + 0i) (where "i" is the positive square root of -1), then the person's testosterone regulation system will oscillate. And such oscillation will be experienced by many folks as "hot flashes."

HRT can change the Nyquist plot so that an odd number of encirclements of (-1 + 0i)j are not present and "hot flashes" will cease. Some herbs may also change the feedback system so that there is no odd number of encirclements of (-1 + 0i) according to some "natural medicine" texts I have read. As I am not an herbalist, I can neither confirm nor refute that.

Some women, during menopause, report having serious to incapacitating hot flashes, other women report never having even one hot flash. Some men, after orchiectomy and without HRT report never having one hot flash. My mother was one such woman, I am one such eunuch.

Because of familial adenomatous polyposis, my orchiectomy choice now appears to have been simple. With testicles and terminal cancer, my testicles would have died like my dad's and brother's did. At an age .far younger than I am now. My mind admonished me to allow that my mind would work far better in a body with a living brain and no testicles than in a dead and decomposing or cremated body

This is a great explanation! I like it. I had all my hot flashes in my mid, late teens and early twenties. One strangely at forty. I guess the term for what happened to me is called "hypogonadism" which was happening sporadically at the very time that I should have been at the height of testosterone developement. My testicles were underdeveloped and were not able to send out as much T for long enough periods as required by the feedback regulation system. Then they'd seem to shut down sending me into another hot flash or night sweat and they could be embarrassing at times too. No drugs were involved but some would thinkk so. For this, I had absolutely NO earthly idea whatsoever at the time what was happening to me or even who I could go to for help. It wasn't until many years later that I finally figure it all out with a little help from EA dialogue.

[patricia]

After my orchiectomy I had hot flushes (flashes) and my Endrocrinoligist prescribed "Estradot 50" Patches which were not very good, so not the next visit he increased the HRT Patches to "Estradot 75" which great the hot flushes have totally disappear.

One very happy girl

[Cainanite]

I had bilateral orchitis when I was 12. It was severe enough to damage my hormone levels and render me sterile. I still have some testosterone production, just not a lot.

As a teen I used to get extremely bad hot flashes. Most of the pictures of me during my teen years, you could clearly see my extremely red cheeks. I was always flush, and was extremely sensitive to temperature changes. It never was properly diagnosed.

Eventually my body adapted, and the extreme hot flashes went away. I am still sensitive to temperature changes, and still feel mildly flush from time to time.

The important thing is that your body will adapt over time. How quickly that happens depends entirely on your hormonal makeup.

Some people will not make it through the transition period. The hot flashes and emotional swings will be too much, and they will need some kind of Testosterone or Estrogen replacement to feel normal. I never have gone on any form of hormone replacement.

I did find moving to a milder climate helped me enormously. I used to live in northern Saskatchewan, and the average temperature over a year could swing from +40 degrees Celsius in the summer to -40 degrees Celsius in the winter. My poor body just couldn't keep up.

I live in Victoria BC now, and those temperature shifts are more like +25 degrees Celsius in the summer, and +10 degrees Celsius in the winter. A 15 degree shift I a can deal with. An 80 degree shift... not so much.

I'm not sure how much hormones have to do with my comfort level in different temperatures. Maybe it is a placebo effect. All I know is that my hot flashes are very mild now, and only occasionally do I break out in a sweat for no reason.

[stevesd]

I had HOT FLASHES before my Burdizzo Clamping, prob because my Hormone levels were already in the tank. When my Hormone levels went to 50ml I got an RX for Androgel Topical which brought back the Hormone Levels to 400 ML and ever since being on Hormones I have not had as much of fatigue and or HOT FLASHES. Testicles were crushed with a Burdizzo in FEB 2012, and are now small orbs - on Androgel to maintain masculine traits. Stevesd

[Caponized]

Seems that testicular cancer folk have been looking at this.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16006929 shows the Depot Provera results. Lower dose seems as good as the higher.
http://www.healio.com/hematology-onc...rostate-cancer shows that venlafaxine not as effective.
Other than these you are pretty much stuck with estrogens and replacement androgen. These feminize or reduce the effect of castration low T.
Fortunately DP is inexpensive -but injected. Check the internet for full info on it.
Nothing suits everyone. First, be careful!
C

[littletits]

Hot flashes come wih the drop in testosterone but they will eventually diminish in frequency and intensity and almost all new eunuchs will have them. Mine lasted four months post castration at a high level and then tapered off to none at all after a year.

[kristoff]

Hot flashes come wih the drop in testosterone but they will eventually diminish in frequency and intensity and almost all new eunuchs will have them. Mine lasted four months post castration at a high level and then tapered off to none at all after a year.

Even with replacement hormones (T), I got hot flashes for about 5 years after cutting. I would imnagine re-adjusting to a lower level. My average is 550 ng/dl now, and has been so for years. And I am very sensitive to changes in temperature, just like those without T. Substitute T is just not the same as real T

[splitboy]

I plan to be castrated surgically in a few months.
To avoid hot flashes it seems that the only solution is taking testosterone.
But if I take T my libido will not going to fall.
Thus if I want a libido reduction I dont have to take T.
But if I do not take T, I will have hot flashes.
And the snake bites itself the tail!
Then hot flashes are they difficult to endure and how long after the castration hot flashes disappear ?
In advance thank you very much for your replies.

[Uncle Flo]

For me hot flashes were a minor inconvenience. They were more of an annoyance than a problem. The people around me, however, got tired of me asking "is it hot in here?". --FLO--

[splitboy]

Uncle Flo you are castrated since 5 years.
Have you still hot flashes?
If you do not have it more, when did they disappear?