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Anyone of the female persuasion is perhaps already aware of the connection between night sweats and menopause . Many of us have already watched our aunts, mothers and grandmothers go through this process. Although it is a natural part of life but it is also a temporary hormonal imbalance.

So far, the process of menopause can take several years in a woman’s life. And it is not something which can just be ignored. The menopause symptoms and discomforts during this time in life can be hard at best to manage.

Many doctors will suggest and prescribe hormone replacement therapy or other drugs to combat the menopause symptoms. Many women feel these artificial means are potentially harmful to their health and would prefer a more natural treatment to menopause and night sweats . Fortunately many women at this life stage have found relief with hormonal supplements. Here are a few more symptoms that this type of therapy can relieve.

Energy production

Most women who are experiencing menopause believe that their lack of energy is usual and they must deal with feeling run down all of the time. Using an all natural hormone supplement can really help replenish the energy levels which are a part of living a happy and productive life. There is no reason to suffer in silence from lethargy and fatigue. As the hormonal imbalance has been corrected, there is no reason why women even in menopause can’t enjoy the energy levels to experience this exciting time in their lives without the menopause night sweats can introduce as well.

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The impending hot flash alone is not all that women face with the onset of menopause .  Menopause  night sweats  are well-known to women to make for many sleepless nights. To combat this inevitable hormonal phenomenon, you need to understand it well first.

What is Menopause Night Sweats ?

We awake in the night dank and damp with our hearts racing and our pajamas and bedsheets drenched in perspiration. This isn’t just a matter of sleeping in an overheated environment or wearing pajamas too thick for the temperature; it is a matter of an irrationally abrupt and severe change in body temperature causing you to perspire profusely.

What Causes Menopause Night Sweats?

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It is true that all menopause  night sweats  are triggered by hormonal imbalances. What many people may not understand is that menopause  treatments like Zoloft, Paxil and Effexor night sweats  are a little different. For a quick science lecture, take a look at hormonal imbalances that most often are caused by things such as PMS and menopause.

That medication may be the problem for people who need medication to manage disorders such as bipolar disorder, clinical depression and anxiety. The medicines correct the chemical imbalance in the brain as probably causing one in the hormonal body system. In order for the patient to have relief from their menopause symptoms it is necessary to apply a hormonal supplement to give them freedom from some of the other following symptoms.

Lower libido

When a person is combating depression related cases, sex is usually the last thing on their minds. This is due in part to the nature of illness however it is also a result to their medication. Basic biology tells us that libido and sexual drive come from a healthy and regulated hormone level. Without it, the patient may feel very undesirable and their relationships may suffer. To let a person with depression that part of their life back it is necessary to treat the hormonal imbalance.

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What are Menopause  Night Sweats ?

Night sweats , or hot flashes which you experience while sleeping or trying to get to sleep, are the most frequent symptom of menopause. Fortunately, there is a wide variety of help on the market today for those sometimes debilitating symptoms. Read on to find out just what options are available and get the information you need to decide which treatments are best for you. Don’t wait one more minute to start getting the relief and improved sleep you deserve!

How Can We Get Relief?

Hot flashes, just like the women who experience them, come in all forms. Some women feel it as a flush that starts slowly and builds, sometimes accompanied by a red, warm face as well as a flushed upper body and even arms. Some women have profuse sweating, others have very little. For some women, the episodes end as quickly as they begin, and they almost don’t know they’ve had it until it is over. Lucky them!

Some studies have shown that up to 2/3 of women during perimenopause, and almost all women who enter menopause  prematurely because of illness or surgery, will experience night sweats. While black women seem to have greater problems with these than white women, other minorities seem to have less complaints, with Asian women reporting the least amount of problems. Younger women also seem to have a higher incidence than older women.

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Menopause  night sweats  can be frustrating. According to surveys conducted by medical researchers, some women experience them for several years before the onset of menopause and about 50% will experience them during or after menopause. Doctors can perform tests to determine if menopause is causing a woman’s symptoms, but often it is diagnosed according to a woman’s symptoms.

There are several terms that doctors and researchers use to describe the years leading up to and following menopause. A woman is considered to be pre-menopausal if her periods are still regular; peri-menopausal if some periods have been missed or are becoming irregular; and post-menopausal when she has not had a period for more than one full year. There is no way to predict beforehand when the onset of menopause will begin. The average age for menopause or the year when 12 sequential periods are missed, is 51. Women who smoke typically experience menopause two years earlier than the average. Certain medical conditions and treatments may lead to an even earlier menopause.

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The night sweats  cause and treatment all deal with the natural occurrence in a woman’s life called menopause . I will disclose brief information on all natural treatments as well as additional remedies to help you get through this period of time.

Why Night Sweats Occur

Night sweats occur because of hormone imbalances in the woman’s body which boosts the metabolism. Another reason night sweats can happen are dysfunctions in the adrenaline glands. What the adrenal glands will do is frequently thrust out extra energy that the body no longer needs as a result of your unbalanced hormones, causing you to sweat at any given time.

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Testosterone is an often overlooked hormone in the grand scheme of menopause but the truth is, it helps with hot flashes, night sweats , bone loss, energy, self-esteem, sexual desire, and orgasm response. For many women, this important hormone decreases with age however for some, it actually increases leading to increased facial hair, acne, and an increased risk for heart disease.

As testosterone levels increase, your insulin sensitivity decreases increasing your risk for blood sugar problems like diabetes. A recent study in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism found that menopausal women with the highest levels are three times more likely to develop coronary heart disease and have greater risk for metabolic syndrome.

So what can you do?

First, get your levels of free and total testosterone checked. Next get your levels of fasting glucose and fasting insulin tested. This can give you important insight into your risk level.

If your glucose and/or insulin is elevated, examine your diet by cutting out sugar, simple carbs, coffee drinks, soda, and other high sugar/high carb sweets. Consider blood sugar balancers such as cinnamon (the spice) or chromium (the supplement).

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Is Prempro, the hormone drug known to increase the risk of breast cancer, a public hazard?

If a judge in Pinellas County determines that it is, hundreds of thousands of documents now under seal in lawsuits against the drug’s manufacturer nationwide could be released for the public to inspect.

The key to the confidential company records has ended up in Pinellas-Pasco Circuit Judge Anthony Rondolino’s hands because of a clerical misstep and a unique Florida statute.

A hearing on the matter is scheduled for Monday, though attorneys were negotiating a possible resolution late Thursday.

More than 9,000 women have sued Pfizer’s Wyeth unit, the maker of Prempro and Premarin, claiming its bestselling hormone drugs caused breast cancer and stroke. The vast majority of those lawsuits have been consolidated in federal courts in Arkansas, Pennsylvania and Nevada.

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Almost all women get at least some hot flushes and night sweats  around the menopause; they’re a by-product of the "make more oestrogen" chemical messages that our brains send out when they detect falling levels of this hormone.

Our ovaries may work intermittently for some time, so the sweats often come and go, until the brain realises that the ovaries have finally stopped working for good – this can take several years.

Hormone replacement therapy (HRT) can suppress menopausal symptoms until it’s all over. Current recommendations are to take HRT for short-term relief of menopausal symptoms. But some unlucky women do continue to have symptoms into their 60s, or even longer.

I’d recommend seeing your GP to check nothing else is going on, as there are dozens of other causes of night sweats , including an overactive thyroid, chronic infections, some drugs (for example, antidepressants) and some rare forms of cancer.

If your sweats are still due to the menopause, you could consider taking HRT even now, provided your GP thinks that it’s suitable for you, although the risks of stroke and heart attack do increase slightly as you get older.

BENEFITS OF COOL-JAMS PERFECT TEMPERATURE REGULATING SLEEPWEAR

Night Sweats are less frequent by actively regulating temperature Reduces overheating by absorbing excess heat Keeps you cooler by pulling the excess heat away from the body Releases heat when needed to keep you warm, plus dries quickly so the body is never chilled. Minimizes perspiration by pushing moisture to the outside of fabric and balancing temperature You’ll always have a great night’s sleep because the body will never be too hot or too cold…always just perfect!

HOW DOES OUR PERFECT SLEEPWEAR TECNOLOGY WORK?

Cool-jams temperature regulating technology is a high-performance material originally developed by our Cool-jams product development team. It provides the technology of athletic wicking apparel with the softness of the finest sleepwear fabric. The fabric responds to changes in the body temperature while sleeping. Unlike traditional sleepwear fabric that traps heat, Cool-jams wicking fabric actually absorbs the excess body heat when the body becomes too warm, and releases it back when needed. At the same time any moisture is pulled away from the body, so that the wearer stays cooler and dryer while sleeping. The result: reduced overheating, sweating and chilling so the body is never too hot or not too cold….always just perfect!

HOW DO OUR COOL-JAMS PAJAMAS HELP YOU SLEEP BETTER?

It is common for people to experience restlessness as they cycle between feeling too hot and too cold throughout the night…they toss and turn as their bodies search for the optimal sleeping temperature. The heat-absorbing fibers continually absorb and release excess body heat to keep your personal microclimate in the optimum range for restful sleep. By eliminating temperature swings throughout the night, you are less likely to wake up from chills or overheating. The result is a deeper, more restful sleep.

Pfizer yesterday questioned the verdicts.

"The company believes that neither the awards of punitive damages nor the liability verdicts were supported by the evidence or the law," spokesman Chris Loder said. The company plans to challenge both decisions.

"The company stands by its belief that its subsidiaries acted responsibly," Loder said.

Plaintiffs’ lawyers say the verdicts are further proof that their cases are strong.

The verdicts show that "when jurors hear how Wyeth put huge profits over the safety of patients, they will react with a strong message of outrage," Esther Berezofsky, one of Barton’s lawyers, said in a statement.

Tom Kline, cocounsel for plaintiffs in about 40 other Prempro cases, said the punitive awards "showed that juries clearly believed that Wyeth hid the risks of breast cancer from doctors and patients, making the defense of these claims harder down the road."

There have been larger verdicts in pharmaceutical cases involving individual plaintiffs – a Texas jury awarded one plaintiff $253 million, later reduced to $26 million by an appeals court, in litigation against Merck & Co. Inc. over the arthritis drug Vioxx. But yesterday’s jury award in Philadelphia nonetheless was significant, another Center City plaintiffs’ lawyer said.

Pfizer Inc. has been hit with more than $100 million in two punitive-damage awards – one decided and the other unsealed yesterday – from Philadelphia juries.

Both cases involve Prempro, a hormone-replacement drug made by Wyeth, which recently was acquired by Pfizer. Plaintiffs said the drug was linked to their breast cancer.

The total includes $28 million awarded yesterday to Donna Kendall of Decatur, Ill.

In the second case, Philadelphia Common Pleas Court Judge Sandra Moss yesterday unsealed a verdict reached earlier this year that awarded $75 million in punitive damages to another Illinois resident, Connie Barton, over her Prempro-linked breast cancer.

"Those are large punitive verdicts, make no mistake about it," said Howard M. Erichson, a Fordham University law professor who has studied pharmaceutical litigation.

About 1,500 of 10,000 similar cases are pending in Philadelphia, a common jurisdiction for large liability cases, attorneys say.

The juries are sending a message that they are angry about the corporate conduct in the cases, Erichson said. The $75 million likely will be reduced because it far exceeds the $3.5 million Barton received in compensatory damages, he added.

"This is a pretty good-sized punitive-damage award," said Sol Weiss, whose firm, Anapol Schwartz, tries pharmaceutical lawsuits in jurisdictions around the country. "The jury believed that the [drugmakers] were not straight with what they knew about the cancer risks."

New York-based Pfizer and lawyers for the plaintiffs even disagreed over how to count wins and losses in hormone-replacement therapy cases to date.

While plaintiffs’ lawyers point to recent verdicts in their favor, Pfizer argues that judges have set aside some decisions and plaintiffs have dropped some cases, turning the legal tide in the company’s favor.

More than six million women have taken hormone-replacement medicines to treat menopause symptoms including hot flashes, night sweats, and mood swings. Until 1995, many patients combined Premarin, Wyeth’s estrogen-based drug, with progestin-laden Provera, made by Pharmacia & Upjohn, a company also acquired by Pfizer.

Wyeth, which had not reserved funds to cover losses in the litigation, combined the two hormones in Prempro. The drugs are still on the market. Pfizer, the world’s biggest drugmaker, completed the $68 billion purchase of Wyeth on Oct. 15. Pfizer reported net income of $8.1 billion last year on sales of $48.3 billion.

Pfizer shares closed yesterday up 17 cents, or a bit less than 1 percent, at $18.53.

Annual sales of Wyeth’s hormone-replacement drugs topped $2 billion before the 2002 Women’s Health Initiative study, sponsored by the National Institutes of Health, suggested that women using the medicines had a higher breast-cancer risk.

Wyeth faced its first punitive award over Prempro in January 2007, when a Philadelphia jury granted damages to Mary Daniel, an Arkansas woman who said the drug had caused her breast cancer. A judge threw out the award seven months later. The case is on appeal, and the amount of punitive damages remains under seal.

In October 2007, jurors in state court in Reno, Nev., awarded a total of $99 million in punitive damages to three women who blamed the drug for their breast cancers. That figure later was reduced to $35 million and is being appealed.

A federal jury in Arkansas awarded Donna Scroggin $27 million in bad-conduct damages against Wyeth and Upjohn over her Prempro claims. An appeals court threw out the award this year and ordered a new trial on the punitive-damage issue.

Clinicians are accustomed to treating patients who have medical illnesses; however, managing the symptoms associated with menopause—a natural, biologic process—is quite different. Hormone therapy (HT) using estrogen either with or without progesterone remains the most effective, and most studied, treatment.¹ But many patients and clinicians have reservations about using HT because of the controversy surrounding it. All clinicians, regardless of their specialty, may encounter patients who have questions about the use of hormones. In family medicine practices, women may inquire about hot flashes and night sweats ; in orthopedics practices, the treatment and prevention of osteoporosis; and, in gynecology practices, dyspareunia and vaginal atrophy. Clinicians should be able to respond with accurate, upto- date information on the recommendations for HT as well as its known risks and benefits.

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Menopause – it’s an unavoidable part of aging as a woman, and brings with it a host of uncomfortable symptoms that negatively impact quality of life. Hot flashes, poor sleep, mood swings, weight gain, night sweats and lethargy are just some of the life-altering symptoms of menopause and perimenopause. What’s worse, menopause signs and symptoms can show up a full ten years before actual menopause occurs (perimenopause), and can last for another five years during menopause before a woman finds relief from the prison of hot flashes, night sweats and mood swings. Unfortunately, even after menopause symptoms subside many women find themselves still feeling lethargic and prone to weight gain.

Though much attention has been given to hormone replacement therapy as a solution to menopause symptoms, a number of studies have shown that adding hormones to the body can cause other health problems and risks. For women who want to find fast, natural relief for their menopause symptoms, the Anti-Aging Institute of California has an answer: Don’t Pause. Don’t Pause is a completely natural menopause treatment that helps women get rid of their worst menopause and perimenopause symptoms including night sweats, hot flashes and mood swings. In addition to natural ingredients that eliminate the worst menopause symptoms, Don’t Pause contains other natural supplements that increase energy, vitality and promote weight loss to combat other common issues that women experience as they age.

The secret to combating menopause signs is the high concentration of pomegranate extract in the Don’t Pause supplement. Pomegranate extract has been clinically proven to reduce the occurrence and severity of menopause and perimenopause symptoms. Pomegranate extract has also been shown to inhibit the development of a type of naturally occurring estrogen that increases a woman’s risk of breast cancer. Other key ingredients in the Don’t Pause natural menopause treatment include black cohosh, which safely and effectively reduces hot flashes and night sweats, and green tea extract, which is full of important cancer-fighting and metabolism-boosting catechins as well as the super antioxidant EGCG. Selenium, Phytoestrogens and Chromium Picolinate round out the list of active natural ingredients in Don’t Pause, all of which fight menopause symptoms, reduce cancer risk, and fight other age-related illnesses such as osteoporosis, cardiovascular disease decrease muscle mass and elevated glucose levels. Don’t Pause is an investment in health that gives a woman back her life and vitality.

Many women seem to feel anxious about menopause — partly because they don’t have any choice.

“It is a necessary evil you have to go through,” said Dr. Robert Ogdee, obstetrician/gynecologist of Abilene Regional Medical Center.

But women may feel some relief when they understand the transition their bodies are going through physically and emotionally.

“What is happening is the ovaries are not producing any estrogen, so the brain is trying to tell the ovaries to kick in and produce more estrogen because they are not popping out an egg anymore,” Ogdee explained. “It is the quitting of ovulation every month that is the reason they do not pop out an egg or have a cycle, which is the true cause of menopause.”

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Hot Flashes, night sweats, trouble sleeping, vaginal dryness, and other symptoms can occur before or during the onset of Menopause. While none sound fun, menopause is natural.

Concerns have been raised over Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) safety when used long-term. This and other factors have some women experiencing symptoms moving to alternative therapies in the fight against symptoms of menopause. These women prefer to fight “naturally,” rather than suffer through it.

While there has been limited research on Complimentary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) related to menopause treatment, and results have been inconclusive for a number of reasons, some women swear by one or more of these (taken from a MayoClinic.com page on Menopause and Alternative medicine, and the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine’s web page on Menopausal Symptoms and CAM):

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