What do I do about night sweats. Have been taking 150mg effexor xr for 6 years and wake up more?

I had drenching night sweats for 5 years. Recently discovered a total cure: gabapentin. Definitely worth asking your doctor about it. I experience side effect of daytime "spaced out" feeling, but will try a lower the dose. Fingers crossed. BTW it's not female hormones. It was developed to treat epilepsy.

I keep large, thick towels handy. I sleep on them and use them as blankets!

I do! Horrible. Every night. I'm on Effexor too, and I will wake up completely drenched. Did you ever figure out a solution??

Hi. I had ovarian cancer in 2009 at age 49 and had a total hysterectomy. I had terrible night sweats after and when I asked my dr what I could take to help relieve the symptoms, she said because I had the cancer, there was nothing I could take. When I kept asking her, she said the only other thing that I could take, I was already on... the antidepressant Effexor XR. Amazingly enough, I had just gone down on my dose of Effexor and she said to try going back to the previous dose. I'm not kidding you, within a few days, my night sweats disappeared!

I am on effexor also about 6 years, in the last 2 years I get horrible night sweats. I have not tried but know of others(with just night sweats not on effexor) that have and it helps, Black CoHash. Its over the counter at a drug store with the vitamins. Now you may want to check if men should use it, I am not sure about that. But I don't believe its a hormone med., think more of a vitamin.

Now that everyone has had a chuckle or two lol. Unfortunately no there isn't anything that you can do about the sweats caused by antidepressants. Some suggestions though for dealing with it at night is flannel sheets & pillow cases and forget about the blankets. Now warm flannel sheets sounds counter productive I know but what happens is that the flannel absorbs more moisture without making you feel chilled so you don't wake up as often.
Now how did I figure that out - menopause lol but I had to use that trick again when I was on the antidepressant Cymbalta last winter for awhile as it makes a person sweaty too.
Take care

Frank, you are experiencing what women call night sweats which occur during menopause. Unfortunately, it also is a side effect of some antidepressant medications.

Are you sure that it's the Effexor?
I buy a product called "Estrovan" it helps with night sweats a lot

I'm chuckling, sorry, but you're experiencing what every woman over 50 does. I'm on it too and I have nights I wake up soaked. There isn't much you can do about it but change your pjs.