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Night Sweats - natural remedies
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on Mar 09, 2010 (Read 5610 times | Comments: 17)
I must be jeginning peri- menopause.. i am really drenched at night. in the last couple of weeks. I have heard that there are some natural supllements that I can add to my diet ... any success anyone? Not debiliating but uncomfortable for sure... really don't want it to escalate...
indygrandma
indygrandma
on Mar 11, 2010 Quote  »     Reply  »

My doctor suggested black cohosh, but I'm not sure I really noticed a difference. I went through menopause in 2004, and still have hot flashes and night sweats. I definitely keep water next to the bed so I can have a drink when the night sweats wake me .
ddavidso
ddavidso
on Mar 18, 2010 Quote  »     Reply  »

omg , still 6 years later? Oh boy .... anyway I had a friend tell me that flax seed helps.. I have been making a breakfast each a.m. consisting of egg whites, 1 turkey sausage and about 3 tbs of flax seed meal (ground flax seed) and about 1/4 cup of H20 all mixed together in a bowl and micor-waved for about 2 mins.... it seems to help! I will get the black cohosh and give that a try... if it did not wake me up, I would be okay with the sweats but they were really ruining my nights sleep! thanks for the tip
felicia1960
felicia1960
on Apr 16, 2010 Quote  »     Reply  »

I skipped the peri and went right to Post and I don't know how. I get night sweats and I have just started hormone replacement and still have them I am. Concerned on how long everything lasts. I don't want to be on hormones for years.
snousje
snousje
on Jul 16, 2010 Quote  »     Reply  »

I've been dealing with hot flashes and night sweats for more than 2 years now. Sometimes they are almost more than I can take. I can't take HRT because my mother had breast cancer. My Dr. wants me to take Pristiq, an anti-depressant, as an alternative. Does anybody have experience with this for menopause symptoms?
Cville
Cville
on Jul 22, 2010 Quote  »     Reply  »

Just make sure that it's not just a "hot flash"! My dr. ignored a number of other symptoms and my request to take a glucose tolerance test. After three years of treating my supposed hot flash symptoms, he finally diagnosed my type 2 diabetes. Thankfully, the day he gave me those tests results, he also announced that he had decided to retire. Yes, night sweats especially can be produced by uncontrolled glucose as well as a burning sensation in your feet.
Gertrude
Gertrude
on Jul 23, 2010 Quote  »     Reply  »

I had breast cancer 10 years ago so they would like me not to take HRT but after years of this I am seriously thinking about it. It is interesting Cville what you said about diabetes because I get hot flashes also when I eat certain things. In response to snousje, I do take an anti-depressant but I couldn't take that Pristiq, it made me really depressed just after 3 days and my doctor put me on something else.
laurieroz
laurieroz
on Aug 02, 2010 Quote  »     Reply  »

I'm in menopause, & the black cohosh works wonders for me. My menopause was forced becuase I had cervical cancer. I went into menopause in March 2004.
vickhome
vickhome
on Sep 02, 2010 Quote  »     Reply  »

I started perimenopause at 34, had a hysterctomy at 40 and just quit going through the hotflash-night sweats about a year ago. I am 53. It was horrible. The only thing that I ever found that helped at all was Estroven. It is so nice to finally be past that phase of my life -- I didn't think it would ever end. I had just decided I would probably suffer with it the rest of my life and then one day I just started noticing that it had been weeks since I had broken into a sudden flood of sweat running down my body. My husband is enjoying the end of the thermostat wars and he has finally been able to put his blanket away! I tried them all: diet changes, supplements, hormones. Some of us just have to go through it until Mother Nature lets us off the hook. Estroven did make it easier somewhat.
Bluebutrfly
Bluebutrfly
on Sep 02, 2010 Quote  »     Reply  »

Here is a trick for ya....all natural too! Calcium....get 600 mg w/vitamind, that is all your body can absorb at one time, and take it three times a day. It won't take long to notice a difference. Now, if you get to the point where you switch to having "cold" flashes then you are getting too much calcium and you need to back off to two a day. Just kind of play with the dosage like that and see what works...maybe you can get away with doing two and then one. I did it years ago when I was having issues with nightsweats and it worked wonderful. Thought that had something to do with menopause, but here I am some 14 years later having terrible hot flashes. So, I am off to buy some calcium and try this again!! Good luck!!
ohioavonlady
ohioavonlady
on Sep 03, 2010 Quote  »     Reply  »

I have hot flashes, night sweats, and bad mood swings, I get very hateful. I found that Zoloft helps with the mood swings. The Black Cohosh helps some. I find hot flashes and sweats are worse in the Summer. My doctor told me if I could avoid hormone treatments, I'd be better off.....so I am taking Zoloft for the mood swings and just dealing with the hot flashes and night sweats.. I am also reading up on natural remedies and homepathic medicine. There is one in our area, but it is expensive and health insurance does NOT cover it. I do go to an Upper Cervical Chiropractor and it has helped a lot, I hope to soon be off the zoloft I also read where avoiding caffeine helps, but I need my morning coffee!! There is also a hormone cream that is mixed based on your blood/body chemistry, but it's expensive & not covered by insurance. I bet if men suffered hot flashes and night sweats, something would be found and be affordable and/or covered by insurance, just look at Viagra!
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