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title: Do women with PMS get hot flashes? | Niyora
description: Most women with PMS experience episodes like hot flashes. They happen about 5.6 times per cycle on average, much more often than in women without cycle-relate
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Case-control study, 1998

# Do women with PMS get hot flashes?

Most women with PMS experience episodes like hot flashes. They happen about 5.6 times per cycle on average, much more often than in women without cycle-related symptoms.

 Moderate study design

157 women with PMS, 27 with chronic menstrual symptoms, and 58 without menstrual symptoms

## What they did

This was an observational study where researchers compared women with different types of menstrual symptoms. They studied 157 women with PMS, 27 with other menstrual symptoms, and 58 without menstrual symptoms. Over one cycle, they recorded how often women had episodes of chills and sweats using a symptom calendar. They also asked women to describe these episodes in detail.

## What they found

83.4% of women with PMS reported at least one episode of chills and sweats per cycle, with an average of 5.6 episodes. Women with chronic symptoms had 9.5 episodes on average, while control women had only 1.2 episodes. The episodes were related to the severity of other menstrual symptoms.

## What it means for you

Hot-flash-like symptoms are common in women with PMS. These episodes seem linked to how severe other menstrual symptoms are. A main limitation is that information about when these symptoms happened came partly from women remembering past episodes rather than recording them at the time.

83.4%

Women with PMS who had hot flashes

5.6

Average episodes per cycle in PMS group

1.2

Average episodes per cycle in control group

## About the study

Original title Menopausal-like hot flashes reported in women of reproductive age Authors Hahn PM, Wong J, Reid RL Journal Fertility and sterility Year 1998 Study design Case-control study Participants 157 What was tested None Open access Yes Read the paper [doi.org/10.1016/s0015-0282(98)00281-7](https://doi.org/10.1016/s0015-0282(98)00281-7)

## Topics

[Premenstrual syndrome (PMS)](https://niyora.com/research/topics/condition-pms/)[Dysmenorrhea and period pain](https://niyora.com/research/topics/condition-dysmenorrhea/)[Perimenopause and menopause](https://niyora.com/research/topics/comorbidity-perimenopause/)[Work and productivity](https://niyora.com/research/topics/life-area-work/)

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