A woman's experience with a debilitating hot flash during a hot yoga class led to an unexpected discovery - a breast cancer diagnosis.
Halfway through hot yoga class — my first in over a decade — I felt a volcanic wave of heat rise inside my chest. While a sea of spandex-clad bodies moved balletically around me, I collapsed on my mat in child’s pose. Sweat dripped from my brow. The heater across the room hissed and blasted another gust of scorching air into the small, sealed studio.Advertisement I couldn’t help but feel like she was speaking directly to me, and so, I mustered my last bit of energy.
But when I rose to join the class in warrior two, the heat inside my chest exploded into flames. I was having a massive hot flash. I did not finish that yoga class. Instead, I rolled up my mat and fled the studio for the air-conditioned bathroom where I stuck my head under the ice-cold faucet. It took an hour for my body to return to a state of homeostasis, and I felt exhausted and dehydrated for days, no matter how many electrolytes I consumed.at 37 years old, I’ve suffered chronic, debilitating hot flashes. Sitting in the sun for too long can trigger an episode, let alone an hour-long exercise class in 100-degree infra-red heat. In October 2017, I found a lump — the shape and density of a marble — sitting just above my right breast. I assumed it was something left over from nursing my then 18-month-old son, however, two years prior, I lost my mother to a fast-moving Chondrosarcoma and painstakingly learned that with cancer. As I pushed down on the mass under my skin, I made a mental note to follow up with my primary care doctor,The author with her two sons, Max and Freddie, in September 2017, one month before her diagnosis. At the time, she didn’t know that she had breast cancer.Later that week, following a mammogram and biopsy, I discovered that my breast cancer diagnosis was early-onset and estrogen receptor positive (ER+), meaning I wouldn’t need chemotherap
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