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living Member Posts: 45
edited November 2016 in Stage III Breast Cancer

was wondering if anyone else experiences such hot flashes? i have had hot flashes for years now, but lately i get episodes of perspiration, wet dripping back and face. it feels a little different than the usual hot flashes

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  • wintersocks
    wintersocks Member Posts: 922
    edited July 2015

    Living

    Yes. I too get this. Actual sweating particularly face  and neck. I actually  have to mop it up at times. Yes, you are right it is different  to hot flashes. What do you think it is? 


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  • living
    living Member Posts: 45
    edited July 2015

    at times i think it is the meds i take, but a part of me worries that i have cancer again

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  • awnie1301
    awnie1301 Member Posts: 59
    edited July 2015

    I sweat like that too. Sometimes I will feel a drip and wonder if it is raining and then realize it is the sweat pouring off the back of my neck/hair. I am assuming it is from this amazing menopause I am experiencing. I am taking Femara and I had an oopherectomy almost a year ago. I am seeing my MO tomorrow...I will ask.

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  • lisa137
    lisa137 Member Posts: 569
    edited July 2015

    I've always sweated more easily than most people, but yeah, now I'm sometimes like my own private walking rain shower. I also blame it on medical menopause and Femara. Looking forward to winter!

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  • ml143333
    ml143333 Member Posts: 658
    edited July 2015

    Oh my yes!  I sweat way more now that I am taking medication and have been forced into menopause.  Most of the time the hot flashes turn into sweat somewhere on my body.  Gross!

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited July 2015

    I agree with the group that thinks it is from Femara. One of the first side effects listed for this med is hot flashes. Even more severe than normal menopause flashes! Lisa I know what you mean about personal showers - lol.

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  • clariceak
    clariceak Member Posts: 752
    edited July 2015

    I'm on Femera and have frequent hot flashes. Normally, I'm not dripping with sweat but humidity seems to trigger that particular reaction.

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  • petersdraggon
    petersdraggon Member Posts: 9
    edited August 2015

    My post-menopausal wife was diagnosed with TNBC so not on any medication since the chemo/radiation last year, is NED, yet she has hot flashes maybe worse than when she went through the change. Now instead of her being under the covers and me on top- it is the reverse and she runs the a/c down more as well. We don't know what to think about it but interesting to read that others are having some of the same experience. I wondered if it had something to do with your immune system- kind of like when you run a fever; or a metabolism thing.

    All the best, Greg.

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  • sas-schatzi
    sas-schatzi Member Posts: 19,603
    edited August 2015

    We did some serious work on the first 25 pages or so.

    https://community.breastcancer.org/forum/78/topic/770796?page=1


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  • Annette_U
    Annette_U Member Posts: 111
    edited August 2015

    I was chemopaused and on tamoxifen now and get hot flashes with the sweats every 30-45minutes 24/7. It is exhausting. I can not wait for the weather to cool down her in southern Oklahoma so I can get a break. I suffer from nausea a bunch from these and drink ice water all day long. Soon I will have a hysterectomy and maybe things will be the same - maybe worse. I'm alive though and getting used to it theses days.

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  • JFV
    JFV Member Posts: 795
    edited September 2015

    I'm on aromasin and post menopausal. I have never sweated so much. I work in school without air conditioning. I sweat all the time and people actually ask me if I'm o

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  • Annette_U
    Annette_U Member Posts: 111
    edited September 2015

    I had FEC and just got a hysterectomy and have been on tamoxifen since Nov 2013. My hotflashes are every 45 minutes 24/7 and I bleed out water from every pore. When I am not having one I get chills. I will be switching to femera in December but expect the flashes to continue. I take a very small dose of venlafaxine 37.5 mg but it only takes off the top of the surge of heat every 45 minutes. Yeah! This bites! I also used to run but not in this oklahoma heat since I started on this CRAP. I hope it subsides in a couple years so I can sleep maybe for 3 hours straight.

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  • Racy
    Racy Member Posts: 2,651
    edited September 2015

    I also have sweating on face and back as well as very red face when hot flashes strike. I do recommend Efexor to reduce the number of flashes. I only have three or four a day and the triggers are fairly predictable.

    Do try Efexor, ladies.

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  • GeorgiaRai
    GeorgiaRai Member Posts: 175
    edited September 2015

    I was never a "sweater" (lol) until I got hot flashes throughout chemo and for the first few months on Tamoxifen. I started taking Effexor which helped a lot, and gradually they went away except for an occasional mild heat wave. Now, after 3 years, I've been switched to an AI and I get HEAD sweats! I don't always even feel hot, but my scalp just starts pouring sweat - it makes my head feel itchy, and we won't even discuss how it affects my hairstyle. I'm hoping this, too, will settle down in time.

    Good luck, living!

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  • Tomboy
    Tomboy Member Posts: 3,945
    edited June 2016

    I hardly ever perspired unless I was working really really hard, outside in the sun, physically working. And even then only barely. And, I went thru menopause about 5 years before bc, and I hardly EVER had a hot flash. I cool sip of water would ban it. So, lately I have been on tamoxifen for a year, and I have been getting drenched head scalp face and neck, not a hot flash, just simply wet. It's very annoying, and stings my eyes.

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited June 2016

    Effexor made my hot flashes worse. Does anyone's onc know how long these hot flashes on AI's will be? For instance do they subside at the ten year mark or does one have to be off the drugs entirely?

    Shelly

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  • Carolehebert
    Carolehebert Member Posts: 14
    edited November 2016

    im on Tamoxifen so im still in premenopausal.I did not have a period for 2 years after chemo then it came back like twice a year since then and in between i get the worst hotflash turning beet red and it's really embarrassing!Im 51 years ol

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