Mastering Your Menopause Night Sweats
Women experience hot flashes as they enter menopause. But more frustrating than hot flashes are the menopause night sweats. Menopause night sweats are just hot flashes that occur at night while trying to sleep, but women everywhere know how frustrating and futile it can feel to get through the night while suffering from sleep hyperhidrosis.
While hot flashes and night sweats can be essentially the same phenomenon, we experience a higher frequency of these hot flashes as our body sleeps. This is because our body’s already go through a temperature change as we sleep. When our body’s natural thermostat is exercising its will on our system while we sleep, menopause throws it for a loop causes it to go a little bonkers.
As we work our way through menopause, estrogen levels tend to vary pretty wildly. As our estrogen levels shift, a brain chemical entitled norepinephrine changes its balance and befuddles our poor brain, particularly our natural thermostat, the hypothalamus.
As our natural thermostat receive mixed readings, it reacts by sending the body inaccurate signals. In the case of hot flashes and night sweats, it dilates blood vessels and triggers sweat glands in an attempt to cool us when we don’t need to be cooled. We perceive dilating blood vessels as heat and of course when those sweat glands are triggered we sweat profusely.
The end result is that we awake wet from excessive perspiration with our forheads burning and sometimes even our heart racing. It isn’t fun and it can make it really hard to live a normal life when you can’t achieve a good night’s sleep.
Treating menopause night sweats may feel futile as our body’s our changing at a rapid pace in unpredictable jumps. Be proactive and don’t wait for them to pass; you may lose too much sleep just waiting.
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