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Q. What is a safe home remedy for severe night sweats and hot flashes? I am burning up and sleepless.
A. There are enough alternatives that you should be able to tailor something that will work for you. The first step is to keep your bedroom cool. Make sure you exercise regularly. Research shows that active women have less trouble with hot flashes. Herbal products such as Pycnogenol (pine bark extract), Remifemin (black cohosh extract) or St. John's wort (hypericum extract) may be helpful (Menopause, Feb. 2010).
We are sending you our Guide to Menopause, with a discussion of prescription products as well as numerous nondrug approaches for these symptoms.
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good research also supports the use of hypnosis/self-hypnosis for relief of hot flashes in women. In my experience , hypnosis also helps men whose chemistry is unbalanced by cancer therapy , causing hot flashes. bob dick,PhD
I just want follow up on the comments.
Quite by accident, I discovered that I have food triggers for my night sweats and hot flashes (I tried a low-carbohydrate diet). My primary trigger is white flour, in any form or combination. Whether as a secondary ingredient in "whole-wheat" bread and pasta or in cakes, pie crusts, croutons, or breading for any fried food. Additionally alcohol is another substantial trigger. I can drink white wine but not grain alcohol. Combining white flour and wine (wine with a meal and a dessert containing flour) will increase the severity and duration of my sleepless agony.
I have always taken good care of myself, exercise, diet etc. as I approached menopause and experienced hot flashes and night sweats. I continued to take my daily multi-vitamin along with calcium and Vitamin D supplements. I also added a daily fish oil supplement.
My hot flashes and night sweats disappeared. I thought that this may have been a freak occurrence so I quit the fish oil supplement and they returned with a vengeance. Once I started taking the fish oil supplement again they disappeared again. I wonder if I have stumbled onto something?
It is working for me at this time, maybe it can help someone else.
Last winter while on vacation in the Pacific Northwest I found myself waking up in the middle of the night extremely hot. I tried all sorts of things: flinging off the sheets, summer night gowns, and still I would wake up at about 2AM extremely hot. When we returned home to Saudi Arabia I started using a fan on my side of the bed, but I would still wake up hot. Then one night I remembered that I had gel packs in the freezer and thought, "Why not give them a try?".
So I would wrap a frozen gel pack in a pillow case and place it beside me. It kept me cool. When I would wake up and find the gel pack warm (because of me), I would get up and exchange packs. I would immediately go back to sleep, cool and comfortable. The frozen gel packs did not stop the heat, but they made sleeping more comfortable.
White flour, same trigger!!! Sometimes, red wine... thought it was the sulfites.
What triggers it for me seems to be sugar, sugar in anything but candy mostly. I don't eat white flour so that can't be it or drink. I take fish oil so that doesn't help. I sure am getting tired of the sweats mostly at night.
I to take fish oil so I know it doesn't work. IF ANYONE HAS AN IDEA PLEASE LET ME KNOW. I use fans and wear as little to bed as possible, that helps.
My ob/gyn told me about Estroven. I have been taking it for two months now. The hot flashes stopped after one week. It was a great relief.
Have been taking Fish Oil 1200 mg daily for the past three weeks and have noticed a significant reduction in hot flashes. Prior to this, was having hot flashes multiple times a day and waking up a couple times a night. I am very pleased with the results!
Someone please help, I need something to stop hot flashes all day long!!! I can't stand it any more. What helps? I can't be on any prescriptions by doctors orders.
I just got back from my daughter's wedding in Maine. I spent every night flinging the sheets off/alternately looking for blanket. The 560 mile ride each way was a nightmare, my poor husband had to keep turning the air conditioning up or down to suite my "new" hot flashes. With a history of estrogen-receptive breast cancer in my family, I don't want to take hormones. I'm 49. Any help is appreciated- this just started about two or three weeks ago.
My hot flashes have been ongoing, over 7 years and sleeplessness. I went back to Adele Davis' book, Let's Get Fit from the 70's. She recommends for menopause side effects a combination on Vit D, Calcium, Magnesium and E. I started one year ago and though I still don't sleep well, the hot flashes are reduced, I believe directly from the Vit. E.
It only lasts about 3-4 hours, which is fine, I take with meals. I carry the 200 mg gel with me and when a hot flash comes on, the Vit. E will take care of it within 15 minutes. I just wish there was a time delayed one, that would help me get through the night.
PEOPLE'S PHARMACY RESPONSE: GLAD THE VITAMIN E IS HELPING. WE SPOKE RECENTLY WITH DR. TIERAONA LOW DOG WHO SUGGESTED THE HERB SCHIZANDRA TO COOL HOT FLASHES.
I've had hot flashes for the past 20 years. The thing that really seems to help me the most is ice cold orange juice or popsicles. I take fish oil, but I'm not sure if it helps with that or not. Stress brings on hot flashes for me. When I first started getting them, they were so strong that when I took a shower, I could feel the heat around my feet from the water as I rinsed off and I would have to eat several popsicles a night so I started getting sugar-free ones.
It could be any temperature in the room or outside, but for me, when the hot flashes came, I was in the Sahara-at the hottest part of the day. I wish they would invent some sort of technology that shows how hot a person feels when they have this. I still get them to this day, but not like I did when I was younger. They started early for me. At least I think so-I thought women get this in their 40s and 50s, but I got it in my very early 30s.
I am a male 76 years of age, I have had night sweats for 24 months now and my health provider can not seem to help. What can I do to remedy this situation?
Hi,
I started getting Lupron shots to help with prostrate cancer after surgery and radiation ovder 14 years ago. Please let me know what to take for the hot flashes, getting bad. Also, should I stop taking aspirin, doctor never mentioned this, read about it on another site.