Tamoxifen and night sweats!! HELP!!!

ForHisGlory

Please give me your tricks if you have any....

I have been on tamoxifen for 3 months now and I'm getting horrible night sweats now. I keep my bedroom like an ice box, run a fan, dress lightly. But I wake up soaked. And even my hair ugh!!! What stops this?

Ti

badger

hi Ti, in addition to dressing light, a cold room & fan, here are a few things that helped me get through the night sweats I got with chemo and tamox.  They're gone now but the hot flashes continue, through five years of tamox and now anastrozole.  I dress in layers with natural fabrics that breathe (cotton or silk, synthetics make me sweat) with a light cardigan for work, and deploy a folding hand fan PRN (as often as necessary).

Keep some dry t-shirts by the bed. When you wake up soaked, whip off the wet one and slip on a dry one.

Unless you sleep in a cap, there's not much to do for wet head but turn the pillow over for the cool dry side.

Use a light blanket with an open weave. Be prepared to fling it off, pull back on, fling off, etc. all night long.

There are meds that your doc could prescribe but I take enough pills so declined that option.  Best wishes!

farmerlucy

Effexor works great for me and a recent study showed it to be as effective as HRT for hot flashes

Bow1965

Acupuncture! I go to the complementary care at my cancer center - she helps with all kinds of symptoms related to chemopause/Tamoxifen. I did not have night sweats but hot flashes that woke me up and very vivid and/or lucid dreams. I have been on Tamoxifen for about 6 months.

UTMom2014

Hi TI,

 

I passed this phase long ago, four years on Tamoxifen now.  The night sweats drove me nuts also.  Finally switched to taking it at noon for a time, and the sweats eventually eased up.  However, it does "slow me down" and make me sleepy, so I'm back on it at night.  Hope your experience improves, as mine did.  There's always something with this stuff though.  Best of luck.