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Hi, I’m Erica, and welcome to The VEOZAH Hot Seat.

I’m partnering with Astellas to share my journey about moderate to severe hot flashes and night sweats due to menopause.

I’d say about 5 years ago I started noticing the hot flashes. People always said, “you’re too young.” Yes, okay, but you know I have my own “private summers,” as I call it, and everybody’s looking at you because you’re fanning, and trying to figure out what’s going on, but nobody understands it unless they walk the walk.

It starts, literally, I can describe it as at the top of your head, and it works all the way down, through your body, through your toes, and you’re burning. You’re burning up. My hair was soaking wet. I think it even changed the texture of my hair. I would wake up in the middle of the night, sweat dripping down my neck, all over.

I have the one pair of glasses that I pretty much quit wearing—they were some red glasses—because I would be out in public and they would fog up. And it’s embarrassing! Then, once I started taking VEOZAH, I brought them back into my life. Now I’m able to go back to wearing my red glasses, and I enjoy my red glasses. This has been my experience with VEOZAH, but everyone's experience is different.

Before I was prescribed VEOZAH, I got a liver blood test. My doctor monitored my liver with monthly blood tests for the first 3 months, then again at 6 and 9 months after starting VEOZAH. You just don’t understand it until you actually get into it. Once you walk into those shoes, then you have a definite better understanding of it. But I would encourage any woman whose going through this, speak to your doctor, advocate for yourself, um, don’t be afraid.

Knowing that Black and Hispanic women experience VMS symptoms longer, I would have absolutely seeked this out earlier. You know, of course, it’s important, I don’t want the hormones, and that’s when my doctor said, “Why don’t we try VEOZAH?”

VEOZAH reduced my hot flashes within a few weeks, and I have continued to experience fewer hot flashes and night sweats due to menopause.

I’ve been taking VEOZAH for almost a year now. I like that VEOZAH is 100% hormone free. It’s just a wonderful thing not to be soaking wet.

I’ve been a flight attendant for 22 years, now retired, and when I had to put on the flight attendant uniform, the scarf was my nemesis, definitely. They wanted it around your neck, and I would kind of bend the rules a little bit. I learned to maneuver or manipulate it into a pretty necklace. So, that way it came on and off very easily.

Because I had commercial insurance, I was eligible for the VEOZAH Savings Card, and it was helpful.

My advice for any woman that is seeking treatment for VMS is do not be afraid to ask questions. I think it’s very important for us to know there are other options and you have a right to make a choice and can make a choice, absolutely. Visit VEOZAH.com to learn more.

VEOZAH can cause serious side effects, including liver problems. Your doctor will do blood tests before and during treatment. Stop VEOZAH and call your doctor if you have symptoms of liver problems, such as feeling more tired than usual, decreased appetite, nausea, vomiting, itching, yellowing of the eyes or skin, pale stool, dark urine, or stomach pain.

Don’t use VEOZAH if you have cirrhosis, severe kidney problems, kidney failure, or take CYP1A2 inhibitors.

I’m Kirstie and this is The VEOZAH Hot Seat.

Today I’m partnering with Astellas to share my story about moderate to severe hot flashes and night sweats due to menopause. It was a few years ago that I realized I was actually having hot flashes and night sweats.

It always starts in my chest and it’s sort of like that feeling when you drink something warm and you get that loom in your chest, that’s where it starts, and it goes from that to unbearable within seconds.

The cooling cap was always in the freezer. The minute I could feel that heat start to spread, I had to go and get it out of the freezer. Pulling that over my head was like pulling the North Pole onto my head, and the steam would just come off of me. It was alarming.

After I had been experiencing the hot flashes for about 3 or 4 weeks, I decided that it was time to advocate for myself, that my journey was gonna be different than my mother’s.

Once I started taking VEOZAH, in about a week, I noticed a big reduction in my symptoms. This has been my experience with VEOZAH, but everyone’s experience is different.

The frequency of the hot flashes decreased, and when I did have them, the intensity was dialed back a lot. I was able to sleep in pajamas, wear a robe, do all those things again. For 2 years, I couldn’t wear one.

I got a liver blood test before I was prescribed VEOZAH. My doctor monitored my liver with monthly blood tests for the first 3 months, then again at 6 and 9 months after starting VEOZAH.

This is a revolutionary time to be a woman of a certain age. We have many more options than we ever had before. I would love to share that with other women and make menopause normal to talk about.

VEOZAH can cause serious side effects, including liver problems. Your doctor will do blood tests before and during treatment. Stop VEOZAH and call your doctor if you have symptoms of liver problems, such as feeling more tired than usual, decreased appetite, nausea, vomiting, itching, yellowing of the eyes or skin, pale stool, dark urine, or stomach pain.

Don’t use VEOZAH if you have cirrhosis, severe kidney problems, kidney failure, or take CYP1A2 inhibitors.

I’m Tamar and welcome to the VEOZAH Hot Seat.

Today I’m partnering with Astellas to share my story about moderate to severe hot flashes and night sweats due to menopause.

It feels like somebody’s turned a heater on inside my chest. It just kind of creeps up and gets to my scalp. Then it gets kind of prickly.

Then, I will start to sweat. And I started waking up in the night, and I did figure out that if I took all my covers off as soon as I got hot, then I could kind of cool off before I got the night sweats, but that meant I spent a lot of the night taking my covers off, putting my covers back on, taking my covers off, waking up.

I would go to a racquet club I belonged to, to go to the pool to swim. I would bring a bottle of water to drink, and a bottle of ice, and I would wear two caps, because they seemed to last longer. I had one cap on, and then put a bunch of ice, and then another cap over that, and it would keep me cool for longer.

Before VEOZAH, I was getting hot flashes up to, probably, 5 an hour sometimes.

I used to do mosaics sitting in the corner of my house, because I worked with really small pieces of glass, and I needed to be able to see really clearly, and it was best if I did that in the sun. But when I started getting hot flashes, it was uncomfortable sitting in the sun. I’d be afraid that I was gonna overheat, and eventually I just avoided it all together.

I wish that I knew that VEOZAH was available sooner.

I’ve been on VEOZAH for 9 months now.

When I first started taking VEOZAH, it was in about a week that my symptoms decreased.

I got a liver blood test before I was prescribed VEOZAH.

My doctor monitored my liver with monthly blood tests for the first 3 months, then again at 6 and 9 months after starting VEOZAH.

I had no idea that there was anything else that I could do, and it had been such a relief for me to not have hot flashes all the time.

This has been my experience with VEOZAH, but everyone’s experience is different.

I wish that every woman experiencing night sweats and hot flashes knew that there were other options available.

I would recommend for people with hot flashes and night sweats, that you talk to your doctor, and I’m telling my story because VEOZAH has been helpful for me, and I hope it can help other people as well.

VEOZAH can cause serious side effects, including liver problems. Your doctor will do blood tests before and during treatment. Stop VEOZAH and call your doctor if you have symptoms of liver problems, such as feeling more tired than usual, decreased appetite, nausea, vomiting, itching, yellowing of the eyes or skin, pale stool, dark urine, or stomach pain.

Don’t use VEOZAH if you have cirrhosis, severe kidney problems, kidney failure, or take CYP1A2 inhibitors.