Every female on my mother's side of my family has suffered from hot flashes and night sweats until they died from age 80 to 95! I started taking the drug when I began going through menopause at 50 and suffered from the same life-disrupting symptoms. I would "flush" red so drastically that people thought I was having a stroke or something equally as life-threatening. The compounded hormones are the only way I can maintain a normal life. I know this. Every time I would try to stop taking this medication within 3 or 4 months the symptoms would come back full force.