Best Pjs and Sheets for (Perimenopausal?) Night Sweats

Ugh, snow banks are best to sleep in.

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I have a Tower fan right at the foot of the bed that blows on high all night long on me..

I cannot wear Pjs.. The pants are too hot for me.
I wear nightgowns to only go to the knees. They are short sleeved.

If my feet get cold, I wear warm socks.. Not sexy, especially with my CPAP on my face,

Hi Persimmon,

I use flannel sheets and a washable mattress pad/cover. It doesn't matter what I wear to bed on those night sweat nights, I'll just sweat like crazy. So, I sleep with an extra shirt close by(I wear my more worn out cotton shirts for sleeping, nothing fancy) and so I can wake, change shirts, and go back to sleep. I'd avoid anything with polyester or synthetic so that your skin can breath. If you are damp underneath (the fitted sheet) consider putting a beach towel close by, so you can lay it out and have something dry to sleep on. Good luck-- to put it bluntly, I know this sucks!

Cotton is good. I'd start out fully clothed and through the night put on and take off as necessary. Awful.

There were times I had an ice pack at the bottom of my bed wrapped in a towel. When necessary, I'd put my feet on it.

I tried to keep a glass of ice water beside my bed and take a sip at the beginning of a hot flash and sometimes it would stop it.

well, i sleep nakey, and you can't do much better than that.
but even that wasn't enough during the miserable hot-flash-central years.
obviously fleeces and flannels won't do. keep to a good quality cotton, and keep a washcloth in a bowl of ice water, or a spritz bottle with ice water in it, next to the bed.
i refused to take that awful unethical premarin, and the herbal stuff did very little to help. i think your best bet is to stock up on good cotton sheets, and plan to do laundry often.
this too shall pass! (mostly.......)
;) khairete
S.

I don't have an answer for you as far as the best pj's or sheets, as I'm going through this myself and haven't found either that work well. I do sleep with a fan at the foot of my bed & a ceiling fan on all night which definitely do help. You mentioned you can't take hormones or supplements, and I just flat out refuse too. What has helped me though is making sure I drink at least 8 glasses of water a day and I eat a LOT of green, leafy vegetables. This has helped tremendously with the night sweats. I don't get them nearly as often now. If you google "natural" ways for these symptoms, you should be able to pull up a list of foods that can help. Good luck!!

Hi, just tossing it out there for thought. Rather than artificial hormones (which you cannot take) and have their own list of side effects; have you talked to a Dr or Natropath or googled how reducing hormones can help you? My mom suffered from hot flushes and anger bouts too but switched to organic meat and dairy (especially full fat since the hormones tend to deposit in the animals fat rather than flesh) She also cut down her meat and dairy consumption (largely due to the cost of organic meat) and found that helped a lot. If you have breastfed you know just how much what you eat and drink gets passed to your baby. Its' the same for cow's milk and eating animal products.