Help with night sweats

[ditheringdorothy]

I'm currently in a medically induced menopause and the night sweats are starting to get me down. I like to sleep in some nightwear but all my cotton nighties and pjs are sticking to me and I wake constantly feeling so gross. Does anyone have any recommendations for nightwear that's moisture wicking (or anything else that might help!)?

I’ve just learned to sleep naked!! I don’t feel the night sweats as much. I do have a variety of cold, dry pillows at the side of my bed which I swap during the night! It’s a real nightmare, along with the rest of the ailments it brings. Xx

Thanks Kazza - I just hate sleeping naked!!

Try sage leaf tablets. They worked wonders for me. My night sweats were horrendous, I was waking every single night and my vest top would be soaked, and my pillow case and sheet and duvet cover too. The amount of laundry I did was unbelievable. I would take off the vest and put on a dry one, and when I got up for work the original vest would still be soaking wet. After taking the sage leaf tablets (I got mine from amazon) for a few days the sweats improved, and now a few months down the line I am having hardly any. It's amazing

It's horses for courses.

I tried sage in the form of homemade tea for some time and it had no effect at all.

OP- is this medical menopause a temp thing while you wait for an op for fibroids or something or is it a long term treatment for something else (like cancer?) You don't need answer.

@JinglingHellsBells - it's to treat endometriosis. Not sure how long for - 3 months in first instance before a review. There's every chance symptoms may have died down by then, fingers crossed!

Why not HRT? I was on it the day after my BSO hysterectomy. Stopped the terrible sweats within 24 hours.

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I just keep a fan pointing at me all night and roam around the bed looking for cold spots, turning and rotating pillows to get the cold side.

I'm taking HRT too @AutumnCrow hoping this is just a side effect of a sudden medical menopause and within a few weeks it'll sort itself. Having said that, I have hormone issues with my gynae problems anyway and tend to get night sweats mid cycle to period, just not as severe as this. So even when I stop treatment I'll probably have to deal with this. And then I get my real menopause- hurrah!!!

But if you are having injections to induce menopause, and shrink endo, the HRT will be wiped out by the injections. HRT just tops up our hormone, so you're losing the effect. Raised temp and sweats post ovulation is normal (or so I thought myself) as progesterone raises the body temp in 2nd half of a cycle.

It doesn't shrink endo - just stops cycles and hopefully the associated pain.
My understanding of it is that the 'payback' HRT is to balance the worst of the symptoms from crashing into menopause, by replacing some of the hormones being lost.

Do you mind saying what treatment you're on, OP?

I get changed into new cotton t when this happens, go to spare room and sleep with window open and fan (£15 at Argos) on. It helps

@ditheringdorothy I don't understand your treatment. Can you explain a bit more? If the treatment stops cycles, is it destroying your ovaries, shutting them down for good? Because if not, surely once the treatment stops in 3 months, your cycles will resume? If all that was needed was to stop your cycles, why not the Pill? (used continuously with no break.) What sort of HRT are you on? presumably it's a combined/ continuous type or you will get a bleed cyclically anyway.

@JinglingHellsBells - I didn't really intend to describe the ins and outs of my treatment to be honest. Medical menopause is a common treatment for moderate/severe endo where others (such as birth control) have failed. Yes, cycles will return if I cease treatment but in the meantime I'm trying this to see if I can get relief from constant debilitating pain.

Oh, sorry for asking Hope you get relief somehow.