Tips for Managing Night Sweats

An icy cold room.  Open the windows if it's cold where you are, and if not, invest in a room air conditioner that you can install in the bedroom and turn way down to cold.  Also, a ceiling fan with a remote that you can keep by your bed so you can turn it up to high when you need to.    

And a lot of blankets for your poor dh! 

You could get a prescription for Effexor.  It's an anti-depressant.  But at low doses (i.e. low enough not to impact your mood) it greatly reduces hot flashes and night sweats.  I took it and noticed a dramatic reduction.  I went from about 15 hot flashes a day (and night) to about 3 or 4.  I have since stopped taking it, as my period came back, but it did help me a lot.

I was thrown into pre-mature menopause at 42 due to the chemo stopping my periods and they did not come back, I just turned 46.  I am on wellbutrin to control the hot flashes, they work wonderfully.  It is an anti-depressant but they found that these pills control hot flashes.  I tried the effexor but could not adapt to them, along with some others.  For me, the Wellbutrin worked the best and I didn't suffer the tremors that most anti-depressants cause.  Also, if you are looking for minimal side effects, especially if you are young, the Wellbutrin does not affect the sex drive.  It's hard enough not feeling like a woman some days but you don't want that drive to dissappear also when you do start feeling normal again. 

My night sweats were horrible, wake up in the middle of the night will pillow drenched, clothes coming off flying across the room.  I"d be at work and break out into a sweat with it dripping down my face.....stress and anxiety do not help either.  These pills for me have been a life saver and don't be one of those people that says I don't want to take anything.  They are there to help and since we can't take hormone therapy, it's a wonderful alternative.

I keep a fan in my bath and stand in front of it when the hot flashes get unbearable.  If men had hot flashes, you can be certain there would already be a cure!