night sweats
 

Hello,
has anyone ever experienced night sweats? I've had them on and off before my cancer, and over the past few years. This past week, as the weather is getting hotter, its been brutal. Every night. I'm scared about progression. Thanks for your input.
Dx Stage IV Her +, April 2015 with collapsed lung-mets to lung, liver, questionable bone, and some nodes
Chest tube placed to relieve 5 liters of fluid in right lung
1 round of cyclophosphamide/doxorubicin until tumor biopsy confirmed Her2+
May 2015-began taxol/herceptin/perjeta
chest tube removed
3 lung taps to remove continued fluid problem and shortness of breath
September 2015- plural tube placed in lung
Continued with taxol/herceptin/perjeta
Scans slowly improved
December 2015-discontinue Taxol due to increased neuropathy in feet and hands
February 2016-plorax drain removed, fluid issue resolved. Bottom of right lung remains collapsed, but feels ok.
Continuing on herceptin/perjeta
(lost 5 year old daughter to neuroblastoma in 2011 after a 2.5 year battle)

Re: night sweats
 

Yes, I have night sweats every night. I am now on armidex and I take it right before I got to bed, about an hour after taking the armidex, I am burning up. We sleep with the air conditioner down so low, it is like being in a refrigerator. Through the years, I have just learned to tolerate it.
I do take effexor xr which was prescribed by my GYN for insomia and hot flashes. It helps quiet a bit.

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I get night sweats and hot flashes during the day. At first I just toughed it out but I was having them so often that I was pretty miserable. My doc wrote me a RX for Paroxetine. I take 10 mg each night and it has really helped! It is safe to take even if your cancer was ER+. Might want to give it a try.

Take Care,
Brenda

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If you're taking steroids that could account for the sweats as I had them all the time during chemo,I've heard many people find the Chillow helps so try googling it and be sure to have cotton sheets.

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Thanks everyone, Im not taking steroids, and I have gotten one period since diagnosis, so I'm not in menopause yet. I just don't know whats causing it .

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And Im currently on antibodies, no chemo

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I had the sweats during chemo, they have since decreased I usually get them at night.

Re: night sweats
 

Hi,

It too am HER2+/HR- and not on anti-hormonals. I had night sweats before cancer and since. I got my period back after chemo.

My Chinese Medicine diagnosis of the night sweats says that it is due to kidney qi deficiency, more specifically kidney yin. It was suggested to me by a different practitioner that perhaps I might just be overheated at night, which isn't an unreasonable suggestion. The other side of that is that I'm often cold at bedtime and cover up well, cold feet and all, then a few hours later I might be awoken to a night sweat. They aren't consistent for me, not even how much I sweat, rarely is it so bad that I need to change clothing during the night.

http://www.shen-nong.com/eng/exam/in...ht_sweats.html

Perhaps totally out there for you, but in Chinese Five Element there is also a 24 hour clock that associates different organ systems with times during the day. You might be able to figure out which of your organs are unhappy when the night sweats happen -- for me it is usually during the time of the liver and gall bladder, 1-3am.

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/192951165262228619/

My sweat lately at night has been quite stinky as well. My Chinese Medicine doctor said that this is because my body is detoxing at night. That just shows me that it is likely multi-layered and not clear-cut. Since I've had the night sweats going back to before cancer I figure that it isn't awful but that I'm still off-balance from before.

I'm on Chinese herbs for restoring my balance, including tea pill formulas for energy, kidney energy, liver energy.

I am also still low on magnesium, something that I need to continue to supplement. Low magnesium can also cause disrupted sleep and night sweats and anti-HER2 therapies are all depleting of magnesium in the body. Have you ever had your magnesium level checked?

http://drsircus.com/medicine/magnesi...toms-diagnosis

HTH