Once I Finished Fighting Cancer I Found The Misery of Night Sweats and Beat It as Well
Posted on Jan 21, 2010 under Hot Flashes, Night sweats, cancer | No Comment
Dealing with cancer was dreadful enough for us yet the thought of dealing the rest of my life devoid of one more complete nights sleep was going to be the end of me. Night sweats had taken crept in after my surgery and I just had to do something about it. This story tells what I did.
Not many years ago I was told I had cancer; I was not happy to find that I would have a hysterectomy at such a youthful age. Though I have two children already, I prayed to have been able to hold on to the decision for any more if we so decided. It is a weird sensation to realize that you will no longer have children mainly when it is not your decision.
In the beginning of my fight I was placed into a regiment of treatments that required radiation and chemotherapy. The chemo was not too bad in the beginning yet as time went on I could tell it was changing my body. I realize it can destroy cancer yet it felt like a fight to the death was occurring within my body and the outcome would either be me or the cancer. I have always thought there ought to be a better way to deal with this. Maybe one day the cure will be made accessible to us, but until then I will only imagine that if there is a natural un-patentable cure out there, the health and drug industry will never let it out.
In due course I was able say I was cancer free and the sensation of release had covered me from top to toe. Yet as soon as I had found this fresh relief I found a fresh crisis had taken its place.
Prior to cancer I had a reasonably typical sleep pattern. I would go to bed, awaken perhaps once for a bath room break and return to bed to conclude with a satisfied night’s sleep. But subsequent to the treatment and the surgical procedure I found myself tossed into a new world of hysterectomy menopause.
Now with this menopause came its cousin, menopausal night sweats, and a complete line of additional troubles. If I were to tell you all of the associated issues included I might go on without end. The night sweats were adequate. The sweats would keep me up all night also cause my husband to lose countless hours of rest as well. In the end it caused my partner to change to an additional room. I had to find a resolution. These night sweats were killing me and my marriage.
I looked at several solutions to my problem and tried just about every organic and un-natural cure available. I tried chilly pillows, I tried absorbing pajamas, I tried bizarre sheets, you name it I tried it. I was just about to surrender when a companion of mine told me about a gadget called a Bedfan. Now to be very frank with you as she said it over the phone I thought she said Bed Pan so I was a tad taken back as I could not presume for the life of me how a Bed Pan was going to assist with night sweats.
Nevertheless, the Bedfan ended up being the life saver I was trying to find. In order to explain how it works I will take a passage from one of the initial users of the fan. One lady said it was like cooling off in a waterfall and not getting wet. That is exactly how it felt. Starting from that first night on, I never had night sweats yet again. Now don’t misunderstand I can feel my body getting warmer and merely from habit for a bit I expected to start sweating, yet it never happened.
Actually the way this gadget works is, as your body starts getting hot, your bed is not able to eradicate that heat quickly enough. With the Bedfan the hot air is moved out of the bed, never giving it a chance to build up to sweating. This is the way it feels; the next time you are lying in bed and you start to feel muggy, merely raise up your legs to raise the sheets up high. slowly let your legs down and experience the gentle breeze floating across your body to cool it down. That is how it feels all night long.
At the end of the day I find myself sad that I can no longer create children but at least I am still alive. Not only am I still alive but credit to the Bedfan, I am able to sleep once again and get the rest I need so that I can still spend time with the lovely children I do have. I trust this will help someone as much as it has helped me and my spouse.