not sure how I missed this thread, as I have had ongoing night sweats since I was about 18. In my early thirties, when the problem was getting so bothersome (so drenched the top layer of the mattress would be wet and I would have to sleep on the other side of the bed), my doctor checked to make sure I wasn't going through early menopause (I wasn't).

Since then, I've more or less "controlled" it by rubbing wild yam extract starting day 14 of my cycle. I still occasionally wake up wet, but for the most part not bad. I do find that winters are worse because I use a heavier duvet and I get hotter at night.

In the last 4 nights, I've woken up on 3 of them drenched, and I'm not expecting my period for another week (usually happens a couple days to about 4th day of period).

I realized that I switched my regular multivitamin (New Chapter Every Woman) which contains soy lecithin. I can't think of anything else that I've done different lately; my exercise level's the same, still using the cream, etc.

It's really gross, but like others have said, I guess there are worse things.