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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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Night sweats catalyze a series of problems which lead to less energy and poor health. Often times the root of the night sweats is not too serious, but the accumulated problems resulting from poor and dehydrated sleep become serious anyways. And then sometimes, the root of your night sweating is serious.

Night sweats, clinically defined as sleep hyperhidrosis, is any drenching perspiration occurring at night or while asleep. It is important to recognize that many more people think they suffer from real night sweating than really do. It is not unusual for a healthy person to perspire a little when they sleep, especially if they are sleeping in a warm environment. In general, cooler temperatures than we accept for living day-to-day are considered healthier for sleeping.

True night sweats involve a real drenching kind of perspiration. It involves the kind of heat that requires you change clothing or change sheets. It is also fairly sudden and fluctuating, hence the association with hot flashes.

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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.

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If you are in the middle of experiencing menopause, the last things you may think of are the causes of menopause night sweats. It just doesn’t seem to matter when you feel like you never slept well in months and you’re so sick of washing sweat drenched sheets you could scream. However it is very important to know the cause of your night sweats. And it’s a safe bet that it is a hormone imbalance of some kind.

For women, the causes are often related to the major hormone affected functions in their lives. For clarification, let’s take a look at the three main times in women’s lives when a hormonal imbalance is most likely. It’s a safe assumption that one of them may be the main cause of night sweats for you.

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Hot flashes and night sweats usually go hand in hand during menopause. To differentiate, hot flashes are considered the intense heat and flushing you experience during the daytime hours. Night sweats usually happen when you are sleeping or during the nighttime hours. Essentially they are the same; they are just sometimes triggered for different reasons.

Night sweats are relatively easy to control. Certain changes in your lifestyle can rectify a night sweat before it actually happens. The first thing you need to do is to avoid any foods, caffeine, or alcohol for about 3 hours before you plan on going to bed. Also, you should avoid exercise, hot liquids, hot showers, or smoking for 3 hours before bedtime. This will help to relieve any triggers that may be associated with hot flashes and night sweats and aid in a good nights sleep.

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EDITOR’S NOTE: This is one in an occasional Associated Press series examining the use and potential risks of alternative medicine. take it with a grain of salt

Miserable in menopause, Elizabeth Alsgaard pondered an awful choice: Drenching hot flashes or hormone therapies that might raise the risk of cancer. What former actress Suzanne Somers raved about held much more appeal _ custom-mixed "bioidentical" hormones, just like ones the body makes.

"Anything I can put into my body that’s natural has to be better," said Alsgaard, a California audiologist who admitted having "no knowledge base to go on other than fear" when she took Somers’ advice.

Millions of women have tried custom-compounded hormones or herbal supplements like black cohosh and red clover since 2002, when a big federal study found risks from traditional hormone replacement therapy, or HRT.

Alternative remedies are especially popular with upscale, educated women who like to research and find their own solutions to medical problems. They like the idea of personalized treatments versus off-the-shelf prescription drugs.

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Do you tend to perspire in the middle of the night when everything seems to be cooler then? Well, chances are, you are having perimenopause night sweats which – if not treated – may lead to ultimate perimenopause insomnia … something you wouldn’t want for the rest of your day as it may also bring about other psychological symptoms as well (such as anxiety and panic attacks, depression or plain irritability with matching mood swings.

Night sweating would usually be caused by hot flashes or flushes. Once the body experiences a hot flash (hotness from the chest up to the face), the body quickly tries to regulate it by lowering the body’s temperature – sort of like a cooling process for the body. This is where sweating comes in.

Sweating isn’t just a sticky, icky feeling that you get during or after exercise. It does just that – it cools down your body just when the body decides to do so before you "overheat".

Unfortunately, night sweats are often a prelude to sleepless nights, as this perimenopause symptom disrupts sleep. And as mentioned earlier, may lead to other perimenopause symptoms as well.

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Its all bout cooling the body, letting the heat escape when the hot flash occurs. Its no different than the way the Bedfan works at keeping you cool at night. Unlike with the Bedfan ,  night sweats during the day can be stopped with the elimination of the extra heat that is built up on the surface of the body. The fan pushes the hot air out while removing layers allows your body to cool faster. At night while you are sleeping it is rather hard to use this method so the Bedfan might be better for you at night.

Just what is FDA, Well if you work for a drug company chances are you will work there at some time in your life as well. FDA is the Food And Drug Administration. They regulate the Food and the Drugs that are allowed to be marketed into the United States. So, they are the ones that say if you can or cannot sale a product to the consumers. The objective is to keep drugs safe.. But they actually are very good at keeping the market free of competition. Not enough room here for that discussion so. Here is the post.  

Miserable in menopause, Elizabeth Alsgaard pondered an awful choice: Drenching hot flashes or hormone therapies that might raise the risk of cancer. What former actress Suzanne Somers raved about held much more appeal — custom-mixed "bioidentical" hormones, just like ones the body makes.

"Anything I can put into my body that’s natural has to be better," said Alsgaard, a California audiologist who admitted having "no knowledge base to go on other than fear" when she took Somers’ advice.

STUDY: Firmly ties hormone use to breast cancer

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Night sweats in elderly women usually happen during the menopausal stage. In most women, it will occur anywhere from their mid-40s to their late 50s and in very rare cases, age 35. This whole process happens over a 2 to 10 year period and it can be extremely overwhelming if not treated correctly. I’m going to briefly disclose some information that will most likely help you during this stage.

Why They Happen During menopause, a major change in hormones will occur in the woman’s body causing the hormones to become imbalanced, thus, leading to extra side effects such as mood swings, anxiety, hot flashes in the daytime, fatigue, vaginal dryness, weight gain, and water retention. This shift in hormones causes adrenaline glands in the body to randomly push out unneeded energy causing the body to erratically sweat.

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Night sweats in men are not nearly as researched or discussed as the night sweats in women because of menopause. However, men are equally capable of experiencing sleep hyperhidrosis for a number of physical and psychological health reasons as women. Additionally, men also experience a period of hormonal change referred to as andropause. It is worth noting that men over 40 experience nocturnal hyperhidrosis far more frequently than younger men.

Night sweats, also referred to as sleep hyperhidrosis or nocturnal hyperhidrosis, is an excessive variation of a natural process. Our bodies perspire to detoxify and to cool. Toxins are released through our pores as we perspire and out body’s core thermostat triggers our sweat glands to help us reduce our temperature.

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Hot flashes can range from irritating to debilitating, but they may also be a sign of something worse.

According to researchers at the University of Pittsburgh, they may signal a higher risk of heart disease or heart attack. After Keeping track of 400 women, they found those with hot flashes were likely to have thickening of blood vessels in their neck, which has been linked to heart disease in other studies.

These findings don’t mean hot flashes cause heart disease, or vice versa. However, they do suggest that the two are linked. Researchers now want to find out why.

More to come

When a drug company pushes its drugs like this.. I get worried.

Monash University research shows that testosterone treatment improves brain function in healthy postmenopausal women.

Professor Susan Davis and Dr Sonia Davison of the Monash University Women’s Health Program treated 10 women aged 45 to 60 years with a daily skin spray of testosterone for 6 months. The women showed improvements in visual and verbal learning and memory on sensitive computerised tests after treatment. They also underwent tests of brain function while undergoing an MRI scan.

The findings were presented at the North American Menopause Society (NAMS) meeting in San Diego this month.

"The tests of cognitive performance were completed with the same accuracy and speed by the women before and with treatment, but with testosterone treatment less of the brain areas involved with these tasks ‘lit up’. This indicates that that less brain activation was required for the women to complete the tasks with the same precision and accuracy when they were treated with testosterone," Professor Davis said.

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Women who add more fat to their bodies as they approach menopause will have a harder time with hot flashes and night sweats.
Fat was perceived to protect women against vasomotor symptoms (hot flashes and night sweats) because it contains hormones that can be converted into oestrogen. However, recent research has shown that women with higher body mass index and more body fat actually suffer more hot flashes.

Gains in body fat are common over the course of midlife and the menopausal transition. To investigate whether these gains might be related to menopausal symptoms, researchers studied 1,659 American women 47 to 59 years old for four years. Every year, they checked women’s hormone levels, percentage of body fat, and frequency of hot flashes and night sweats.

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