Now t*at you mention it, I *et a *ot face flus* nearly every evenin*. I *ave been on MS contin for several years. I've been attributin* my "flu
s*es" to perimenopause. Could it per*aps be t*e morp*ine? I take Oxy IR for breakt*rou** pain.

Heather-I thought that, too! I went into early menopause at 35 (full blown) and got hot flashes, but those are different. And it's usually only when I have multiple medical things going on, like sinusitis, kidney stone and RSD.

The more I think of it, that has me taking more meds such as sudafed and motrin, and I have my muscle relaxants for my legs (diazepam) so I used to wonder if I was just taking too much medicine.

But what was the other possibility? If I don't take the sudafed, my face feels like it is being hit with a rock. If I don't take the diazepam, my RSD leg spasms will go nuts. I HATE taking so many different meds and am so glad the stone passed. Now maybe I'll get some sleep? Well, it IS a possibility. Not a good one, but still...

Oh boy, it feels like another of those nights.

Sorry to *ear you are *avin* a bad ni**t. I also *ave RSD. Yes, a *ot flas* is totally different t*an t*is ot*er "ot face" t*in*. You escaped at 35? Lucky!

Are you on antibiotics? I ask because antibiotics can *ive me t*e *ot face.

No antibiotics but I should be on them for sinus infection that hasn't gone away.

I started menopause at 35 when I was trying to get pregnant. I was on so many hormones and had PCOD, so cyst after cyst. I got pg thru IVF but miscarried, exactly a year after I buried my baby boy. Menopause at 35 was a nightmare for me. I'm married for a few years and suddenly have hot flashes, night sweats and no libido. And years later I'm still going through it!

But I do know that menopause IS different from these hot face flashes. They're calming down as my breakthrough morphine wears off. So that means I can take a breakthrough again in a half hour and get the face sweating/red face, or suffer from the pain and not sleep at all.

This is a difficult decision. I also wonder if the muscle relaxer might cause red face? My kidney stone was causing me to bend in an odd way as I lay in bed and it made my muscle spasms terrible. I'm due for another if needed, but i don't want to get the hot red face again. This is just weird. What do other people do when it's time for bed? Oh yeah, they sleep! ;) I SO wish I was normal again.

I take morphine and it raises my body temp, most pain meds do for me. I have had several doctors tell me its a rare side effect of certain pain meds.

And Thalia i am another Michigander with the open window winter policy.....

Really? That's comforting to know. I mean, sometimes I wonder if I'm crazy but there IS another Michigan CP patient with the rare but helpful winter window policy, LOL! I'm near Ann Arbor- not a great place for pain docs. :(

And now I'm wondering, as you have also had this hot flashy thing with pain meds, if it's just that I've taken the max amount b/c of the kidney stone. I guess we'll see. I'm due for a breakthrough med but am wondering if I should skip it. I'm on that fine line with my foot where I might survive w/o it but might also be up all night w/o it.

Choices, choices.

I get it all the time, no matter what doses i take, my wife makes fun of me. My ears will be beet red ill be sweating like i ran a marathon with a fan on me, and everyone else in the house is under 2 blankets huddled together...lol

My hubby likes it cold, thank goodness. We both hate heat. Our house is kept at 63 in winter and less if I ever get the house to myself. Funny thing is, we had to keep our house warmer for our son when he was a baby but he gets hot too! He's 2 now and he kicks all his blankets but one off. (His baby blanket.) He wears footie pjs, though, so he is warm. But I can never figure out how he takes his socks off! It's cold in here and he won't wear socks.

I like the fresh air at night, though. It sometimes helps me sleep. But this MI weather lately...I don't know. I want more snow!

ahh heres were we will agree to disagree, no more snow is fine by me, snow puts too much moisture in the air and that kills me...

I'm also on muscle relaxants for t*ose *orrible muscle spasms. Believe it or not, I *ave been blamin* my computer (laptop) for *ivin* me *ot face. Not!!

I am so sorry about your menopause experience. You *ave been t*rou** *ell. Your son's picture (*e's *or*eous) always makes me smile.

Well, I *uess t*e old morp*ine is t*e cause. Every symptom realized is always *elpful. I *ope you can *et some sleep.

I LOVE the snow. Unless I'm expected to drive, LOL. I don't like the change in weather and the cold DOES make my RSD worse, but I feel like we got cheated out of a real winter this year. It's cold, but no snow for Xmas, no snow for NY, and I bought my son a snowsuit! I want to take him sledding!

Kinda OT but when he was an infant I took him in MARCH after a huge snowfall, all bundled up (both of us) and pulled him around our pool (which you couldn't see b/c the cover was covered in snow) and I took pictures. I stopped at one of our pine trees and posed the sled there, took a few steps back and bamm! I felt myself tripping/twisting on the stake that held the pool cover in place and the rope that attached.

I went down hard, right on the pool cover! I heard the pop, and felt intense pain in my ankle (not my RSD foot, thank God!) and knew something was wrong. But priorities first. I took a cute photo of my son under the tree in his sled and snowsuit, and then had to limp ALL the way around the pool, pulling the sled in the heaviest snowfall we'd had all year. I could barely walk but Motherhood gives you superpowers! To this day, my hubby doesn't get how I pulled our 10 month old all the way around the pool with a fractured ankle and RSD in my other foot.

I remember refusing the ER b/c I don't do them unless it really IS an emergency, and making an appt with my family doctor. He took 1 look and put his head in his hands, telling me I should prepare b/c RSD spreads and this was a huge possibility. I had fractured my ankle in a few places but got away with a splint/cast for a few days with crutches, then a permanent type cast thingy. (I don't know the medical terms.) They didn't put it the way they wanted to b/c they were scared of swelling and of RSD developing.

After all of that, I don't know that my son would appreciate a sled ride, LOL, but I still want him to enjoy the snow as I did as a kid. It makes my RSD worse and I swear, I can most often tell you when snow is coming! It sounds like I'm nuts but my RSD foot sweats and turns a grey color whilst my knee throbs. That is better than my hubby's Master's Degree in Meteorology!

Thanks for the sweet words about my son- I have to agree, he's cute. I can say that b/c he's adopted and I had nothing to do with his genes. He and I have Playgroup tomorrow so now that my questions about the hot face are done, I can either take another pill soon (actually both are due at same time) and possibly get a few hours of sleep, or I can just choose to stay awake. I have to get up by 9:30am and it is already 12:35am. It'll take at least 2 hours to fall asleep and my son could wake at anytime as he went to bed early tonight. Again, decisions, decisions.

Oh well, at least I passed the stone. That's huge. I couldn't do a darned thing if I still had that.

Thanks all for the input, and hoping you're all getting some sleep, and that maybe I do too. ;)

i do get hot from my meds, the fentanyl was really bad I perspired SO bad, I guess only 12% get that symtom, I had to go back to oxycodone.

I've only been on a Morphine drug for a little over one year & before that Oxycontin for over 11yrs.
I am just the opposite; if anything I am cold all the time but don't keep my heat set very high either to keep the cost down as I can always bundle up but even in the summer, I'm cold in my house; not warm.
I have had RSD for almost 13yrs now & RA for about 5yrs. My hands stay ice cold & the R side of my body is cold too.
When I have my temp taken at the doc office, it's usually lower than average; about 95.4
If my temp does get up to normal, I feel like I have a low grade fever.
RSD does weird things to us all & no 2 are alike is what I've found & I do believe meds play a role as they affect us all differently too.
Rhonda, IN

hiya thaliajen, ive been taking mscotin for yrs, and havnt had the hot feeling like your talking about, but that doesnt mean much cause we all have different reactions to meds, maybe to many meds right now, and thats giving you hot flashes, im in west michigan myself by the way, so hiiiiiiiii to a fellow michigander..... take care....tracy.

sounds normal side effect for me