I have suffered from horrible night sweats throughout my years of suffering and not knowing what I had.I may well have and may still have a Babs problem, but, what has relieved my drenching night sweats, has been hormone therapy.
My night sweats were so bad, my husband had to come in the middle of the night to my room and help me change clothes and bedsheets. I would wake up drenched and freezing from the air hitting the sweat.
I'm copying the following from another post I did recently:
"I think that many poster's here have done the 24hr urine panel as there are plenty of folks here seeing Dr. C of MO, me included.
You should do a search of old posts on this subject. Try the keywords 24 hr urine, or hormones...you should get plenty of results as this has been discussed many times in the past year.
I did it and 5 months later was in deep trouble with my hormones. I had to stop them in November as I was beginning a long trip of vomiting for the next 6 months.
My local PCP has started me on another route and that is a Saliva Test that actually today I will be sending out to ZRT Laboratory. You can find out about that at www.salivatest.com
I am convienced that this is a better way than the 24 hr urine test and I am very hopeful with the pending results. These hormones will be compounded as with the hormones given after the 24 hr urine test...you do not have to be off hormones to do this test. And, where I will be getting mine, the compounding pharmacy, will be playing big time throughout the process.
I was very leary that I was not to be re-tested on the 24hr urine and the slavia will be tested after 2 months on the hormones and anytime after I feel they need to be checked. This way is also very cheaper in the testing and the hormones.
If anyone is interested in this, then, check out the above website and it will explain everything about the testing and what to expect. The go by symptoms as well as the salvia, which I think is inherently better."
Now keep in mind that you do not have to be female or going through menapause to have your hormones out-of-whack. It can and does happen to anyone, especially those with LD.
Rosemary