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Could Coolscupting Be Causing Hot Flashes?

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TAM50Dec 11, 2011

I had coolscupting performed on my entire abdomen area about 2 weeks ago. Within a day or two, I started having intense hot flashes which would alternate with then becoming cold. I am 50 yrs old, last period was over one year ago, and have read somewhere that estrogens are produced by fat cells in the abdomen. Can the freezing and destruction of the fat cells, which possibly contain estrogen, be causing these hot flashes?

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