Night sweats - Balanced Hormones Center

What are night sweats?

Night sweats refer to severe hot flashes and excessive sweating during sleep. They can soak your nightclothes and bedding and may disrupt your sleep.

Night sweats have several potential causes:

• Menopause - The hot flashes associated with menopause and perimenopause often occur at night and can cause intense bouts of sweating. This is common in women over 40.
• Medications - Antidepressants, pain relievers, and hormonal medications may trigger sweating at night.
• Hormone disorders - Conditions like hyperthyroidism and hypoglycemia can stir up night sweats.
• Infections - Fevers and infections like tuberculosis and HIV may break into sweats at night.
• Cancers - Leukemia, lymphoma, and other cancers sometimes induce drenching night sweats.
• Anxiety disorders - Conditions like PTSD, anxiety attacks, and panic disorders can manifest as night sweats.

If you're experiencing unexplained, repeated night sweats, I recommend getting checked out by a doctor to identify any underlying condition. The experts at Balanced Hormones Center offer advanced hormone testing and integrative treatments to help resolve night sweats. Their individualized care plans can successfully regulate hormones, manage menopause, address deficiencies, and improve sleep.

Diagnosing Night Sweats

To diagnose night sweats, doctors review your medical history and ask questions like:

• When did you begin having night sweats?
• How often do they occur?
• How severe is the sweating?
• Do you sweat enough to have to change clothes or bedding?
• What other symptoms occur around the same time?

They may order blood tests and imaging scans to check for infections, hormone issues, diabetes, thyroid problems, carcinoid syndrome, or cancers. Keeping a night sweat diary to track episodes and possible triggers can help your doctor pinpoint causes.

Managing Night Sweats

Depending on what's causing night sweats, treatment options may include:

• Hormone therapy - Estrogen therapy, testosterone therapy, DHEA, or growth hormones
• Switching problematic medications
• Treating underlying infections
• Taking supplements like sage, vitamin E, or magnesium
• Using prescription medications for hot flashes
• Making lifestyle changes - avoiding spicy foods, alcohol, stress, hot rooms
• Managing anxiety - therapy, mediation, medications

The integrative medicine doctors at Balanced Hormones Center specialize in getting to the root causes of night sweats and customizing natural hormone balancing treatments for lasting relief. I'd recommend scheduling a consultation with them if you're struggling with disruptive night sweats.

I hope this gives you a helpful overview on night sweats - their causes, diagnosis, and treatment options available. Let me know if you have any other questions!