Supplements for menopausal night sweats

Flick216

Afternoon everyone,

Just wondered if anyone could recommend any supplements (or indeed anything) to combat night sweats. I haven't slept properly for about 3 weeks and wake up each morning smelling like a men's locker room :eek:

I am reluctant to go to the docs as I don't really want to go down the HRT route - I was hoping someone had found their own solution to this without prescribed medication.

suki1964

Ive given up tea and coffee and the sweats aren't so bad now

Sage is supposed to be good, you can get capsules. I'm hopeless at remembering to take them so I can't confirm

I did get some Premarin when the sweats were so bad I wasn't sleeping Took them for three weeks only. Once I got back sleeping again I stopped them

I find having a top sheet helpful. I can kick of most the duvet but don't get that chill

Flick216

suki1964 wrote: »

Ive given up tea and coffee and the sweats aren't so bad now

Sage is supposed to be good, you can get capsules. I'm hopeless at remembering to take them so I can't confirm

I did get some Premarin when the sweats were so bad I wasn't sleeping Took them for three weeks only. Once I got back sleeping again I stopped them

I find having a top sheet helpful. I can kick of most the duvet but don't get that chill

Thanks - I'll have a look to see what sage tablets I can get.

Not sure I can give up my morning coffee :eek:

I don't use a duvet anymore - I have blankets so I can either be under all of them or just one. I'm getting the sweats under one thin cotton blanket! Perhaps I should try a sheet instead as well.

Torry_Quine

Sage helped me. I got it online

Flick216

Thanks - just ordered some :j

hollydays

I tried hrt but it gave me migraine.
I was put on beta blockers for a while, they did help.

teddysmum

When I began to have them, I had a chat with a GP, who suggested HRT, but when I said I'd heard bad reports about it, she suggested visiting a herbalist.


Before this, I read an article by Miriam Stoppard, who said that different people have different requirements and that properly trialling individual treatments would take a very long time, so she recommended a multiple ingredient supplement.


On the advice of two internet friends and the lady at a health shop, I tried Menolife and it worked for me. I recommended it to a friend and she , in turn, was impressed (She had been on HRT but wanted to come off it).


It has to be taken for a number of weeks with regular breaks ( of two weeks I seem to recall) and my husband could always tell when I was near the end of a break , as my sweats started up again.


They have it for sale on Amazon.

kingfisherblue

I've got to be careful with anything I take, due to sudden and severe allergies. I can't buy over the counter, just in case.

Instead, I am coping with the night sweats as best I can. I only drink decaff coffee. I have cold wet wipes by the bed, and only use cotton bedding. I keep the window open so that there is a breeze.

The best thing, though, which has almost eliminated night sweats (after several years), is climate control bedding. I bought duvet and pillows from Aldi, not really believing it would help - but it was a lot cheaper than a Chillow, which I was also considering. The difference has been remarkable. I've barely had any night sweats since, yet was regularly waking up soaked through.

I think the duvet (king size) was £12.99 and the pillows were less than a fiver. The pillows go flat fairly quickly, but both are great at keeping me cool. I know that there are more expensive versions of climate control bedding available, but I don't know what they are like. I'm very happy with my Aldi buys (although a deeper, squashier pillow would be better!).

teddysmum

kingfisherblue wrote: »

I've got to be careful with anything I take, due to sudden and severe allergies. I can't buy over the counter, just in case.

Instead, I am coping with the night sweats as best I can. I only drink decaff coffee. I have cold wet wipes by the bed, and only use cotton bedding. I keep the window open so that there is a breeze.

The best thing, though, which has almost eliminated night sweats (after several years), is climate control bedding. I bought duvet and pillows from Aldi, not really believing it would help - but it was a lot cheaper than a Chillow, which I was also considering. The difference has been remarkable. I've barely had any night sweats since, yet was regularly waking up soaked through.

I think the duvet (king size) was £12.99 and the pillows were less than a fiver. The pillows go flat fairly quickly, but both are great at keeping me cool. I know that there are more expensive versions of climate control bedding available, but I don't know what they are like. I'm very happy with my Aldi buys (although a deeper, squashier pillow would be better!).

I bought the dog version of a Chillow (same manufacturer)for one of my dogs who had heart problems.


It was very disappointing as, though it worked well, keeping him cool (cools human feet too), it was very expensive (over £40, 10 years ago) and lasted a very short time. (just over 12 months but not used all that time; just in hot weather)

The dog was small and not a chewer, but the seams burst , making the bag leak, soaking the carpet, and could not be repaired as they were welded. It was not just mine, as I found, later, that a friend had the same problem with hers.

kingfisherblue

Glad I didn't buy the Chillow then! It was the cost that put me off, along with the fact that night sweats affected my whole body, and I couldn't see how the Chillow could help below shoulder level.