Hot flashes don\u2019t have to stop travel. One writer shares how she\u2019s adapted her trips during perimenopause, from packing smarter to choosing cooler destinations.<\/p>\n
When I was a younger woman, I didn\u2019t spend much time thinking about what life as a perimenopausal woman would be like. I\u2019m not even sure twenty-something me had a solid grasp of what perimenopause or menopause was, beyond being something that happened to old people. But time marched on, and while I don\u2019t consider myself old, my body often has other ideas.<\/p>\n
If you haven\u2019t experienced the joys of perimenopause, picture yourself as a human BBQ grill, one where someone else controls the temperature and randomly cranks it to broil when you\u2019re doing something important or enjoyable. Everyone\u2019s symptoms are different, but when I\u2019m in the throes of a hot flash, I feel so intensely heated from the inside that I\u2019m genuinely surprised my face isn\u2019t stop-sign red and I still look relatively normal.<\/p>\n
I may be fighting the urge to rip off my blouse and set the thermostat to a frosty 62 degrees, but most people don\u2019t realize what\u2019s happening unless I tell them. Sometimes the frantic fanning gives me away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hot flashes don\u2019t have to stop travel. One writer shares how she\u2019s adapted her trips during perimenopause, from…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":415193,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[97,138796,24295,85666,19092],"class_list":["post-415192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-health","tag-hot-flashes","tag-menopause","tag-perimenopause","tag-travel-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=415192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415192\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/415193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}