About VMS

You’re not alone. Nearly half of women going through menopause may experience moderate to severe hot flashes.

What are Vasomotor Symptoms?

Hot flashes and night sweats are a real medical condition, so they have a real medical name—VMS (Vasomotor Symptoms). They may happen during menopause.

What to know about hot flashes

Hot flashes are often the most bothersome symptoms of the menopausal transition.

Women may experience:

Sudden intense sensations of heat in the upper body (usually face, neck, and chest). These typically last 1-5 minutes.

Sweating, chills, and impact on mood.

Sleep disruption.

Hot flashes may also present as episodes of heat or sweating during sleep that can cause discomfort and disrupt your beauty rest. These night sweats can be so severe that they cause women to wake up feeling drenched and unable to fall back to sleep.

What makes a hot flash mild, moderate, or severe?

Warm sensation, but no sweating or disruption of activity

A woman experiencing moderate hot flashes

Warm sensation and sweating, but no disruption of activity

Warm sensation, sweating, and disruption of activity

The severity of hot flashes can vary widely among women. It’s important to talk to your healthcare provider about the impact of your symptoms.

Take our VMS Impact Quiz to help get the conversation started.

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Tips From Dr. Jen Ashton

Dr. Jen Ashton shares her perspective

Dr. Jen Ashton, a board-certified OBGYN, shares expert insights on hot flashes due to menopause in this video series.

Dr. Jen Ashton has been compensated by Astellas.

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What is VEOZAH™ (fezolinetant)?

VEOZAH is a prescription medicine used to reduce moderate to severe vasomotor symptoms due to menopause. VEOZAH is not a hormone. Vasomotor symptoms are the feelings of warmth in the face, neck, and chest, or sudden intense feelings of heat and sweating (“hot flashes” or “hot flushes”).

VEOZAH can cause serious side effects, including:

Liver Problems. Your healthcare provider will do a blood test to check your liver before you start taking VEOZAH. Your healthcare provider will also do this blood test monthly for the first 3 months, at month 6, and month 9 after you start taking VEOZAH or if you have signs or symptoms that suggest liver problems. If your liver blood test values are elevated, your healthcare provider may advise you to stop treatment or request additional liver blood tests.

Stop VEOZAH right away and call your healthcare provider if you have the following signs or symptoms of liver problems:

feeling more tired than you do usually
decreased appetite
nausea
vomiting
itching
yellowing of the eyes or skin (jaundice)
pale feces
dark urine
pain in the stomach (abdomen)

Do not use VEOZAH if you:

have cirrhosis.
have severe kidney problems or kidney failure.
are taking certain medicines called CYP1A2 inhibitors. Ask your healthcare provider if you are not sure.

Before you use VEOZAH, tell your healthcare provider about all of your medical conditions, including if you:

have liver disease or problems.
have kidney problems.
have any medical conditions that may become worse while you are using VEOZAH.

Tell your healthcare provider about all the medicines you take, including prescription and over-the-counter medicines, vitamins, and herbal supplements. VEOZAH may affect the way other medicines work, and other medicines may affect how VEOZAH works.

The most common side effects of VEOZAH include:

stomach (abdominal) pain
diarrhea
difficulty sleeping (insomnia)
back pain
hot flashes or hot flushes

These are not all the possible side effects of VEOZAH. Tell your healthcare provider if you have any side effect that bothers you or does not go away.

Call your healthcare provider for medical advice about side effects. You are encouraged to report negative side effects of prescription drugs to the FDA. Visit www.fda.gov/medwatch or call 1-800-FDA-1088.

Please see full Prescribing Information and Patient Information, including BOXED WARNING.