Night Sweats?

[kelli01 5]

What is this all about? I'm 32...I did have these after I had both of my kids....but that was it. Now it seems I have them a couple times a week...It is driving me nuts...I wake up my hair is damp, so is my clothes, So gross! My surgery date was 3/16 coming up on a year my weight loss is 57.4

Any ideas, tips?

Thanks!

[B-52 7,113]

I'm a diabetic, but since my weight loss it has been completely reversed.

When it was really bad, I used to get night sweats all the time. Never had one since.

[Jess55 97]

I used to be fine at night, slept under a blanket fine. For a while now even with its being winter (though a warm one), I sleep with the window open and in a t shirt and pants and under my comforter, I wake up in the middle of the night sweating, and I have to put a fan on. It's weird because during the day I'm chilly.

[lorena st 33]

Sorry, can't help you. I have the dreaded menopause going on...so i am hot then cold all the time and I assume that this has nothing to do with losing weight. I find that the warmer the weather, the less hot flashes (or whatever they are called). If it helps, it's driving me nuts too!

[elcee 3,340]

Maybe the OP is menopausal too

[Cazzy 725]

Maybe the OP is menopausal too

was thinking the same thing

[laddie1229 18]

I think you are experiencing peri-menopause. That can occur as young as you are. Night sweats and flushing SUCKS. I slept with a fan blowing on my face year round. No long sleeves and carried a paper fan in my purse. I tried hormones, but they scared me and really didn't help. Talk to your doctor and ask about black cohosh or estroven, these are both supplements and may help. I just toughed it out until I was in full menopause. Good luck and you will make it through this. Waynette

[#MagicWithinme 173]

I was taking estroven before surgery and it seemed to help like a dummy I threw them away because I didn't have them any more until starting thursday night, horrible, my body jerks awake and I have to :dose" myself with a piece of xanax , tylenol and a cold cloth.. It keeps going in the morning until I've had a cool shower and started my medicines again .

[ladyhawk01 3]

Oh thank god I'm three day post op and for the last two nights have suffered night sweats....it's cold out and I've stopped turning heater on cause the first night I did that I had to turn a fan on instead...any ideas as I'm only 41 and already got tested for menopause?

[honk 780]

I've read evidence that estrogen is stored in fat. I wonder if as you are loosing weight you are getting surges of estrogen in the blood.

[ladyhawk01 3]

On the nights sweats they have ceased the last two nights....but still over heat but not anywhere close to the night sweating I had the first three nights. It's Melbourne winter and im in a t shirt? Lol

[elcee 3,340]

Try living close to Ballarat, you'll soon put a jumper on!

[SageTracey 608]

Or in Gippsland! Very cold down here, too (but not as cold as Ballarat!)

[Jachut 487]

I'm in Melbourne and I can't bear to wear any clothes to bed, winter or not.

I went through an early menopause due to cancer treatment and had horrific night sweats which were fixed by HRT.

You can have a blood test to determine your hormonal status, but you should check this out as night sweats can also be a sign of other health conditions such as diabetes, certain cancers etc. And then of course, sometimes they just happen because you overheat a bit on any given night.

[m1aman 944]

Night sweats can also be a sign of thyroid problems.