Nearly ending it all with cancer was dreadful enough for us and the thought of living the rest of my life devoid of another complete nights rest was ready to be the ending of me. night sweats had taken set in after my surgery and I needed to do something about it. This story tells what I did.
Not so many years back I shocked to learn I had cancer; I was not pleased to discover that I would have to get a hysterectomy at such a young age. Though I have two children already, I would have loved to been able to preserve the decision for any more if we so chose. It is a weird sensation to know that you can no longer have kids mainly when it is not your decision.
In the beginning of my struggle I was mandated a regiment of treatments that required radiation and chemotherapy. The chemo was not too bad at the start yet as time went on I could tell it was changing my body. I know it can eradicate cancer but it felt like a battle to the death was happening within my body and the result would either be me or the cancer. I have always thought there should be a healthier way to deal with this. Perhaps in the future the treatment will be made available to us, but until then I will only dream that if there is a natural un-patentable treatment out there, the medical and drug industry will never let it out.
Eventually I was able to call myself cancer free and the feeling of liberation had covered me from top to toe. However as soon as I had found this new relief I found a fresh setback had taken its place.
Previous to cancer I had a somewhat ordinary sleep pattern. I would go to sleep, get up maybe once for a restroom break and go back to bed to finish with a full night’s rest. But subsequent to the treatment and the operation I found myself tossed into a new world of hysterectomy induced menopause.
Promptly with this menopause came its cousin, menopause nighttime sweats, and an entire string of other troubles. If I were to show you all of the interrelated issues included I might go on forever. The Night Sweats were adequate. The sweats would keep me up all night plus cause my spouse to lose immeasurable hours of rest too. In the end it caused my partner to move to a different bed room. I had to discover an answer. These night sweats were killing me and my marriage.
I looked at a number of solutions to my problem as well as tried almost every natural and un-natural medication obtainable. I tried cold pillows, I tried absorbing night clothes, I tried exotic sheets, you name it I tried it. I was about to give up when an acquaintance of mine gave me a doohickey known as a Bedfan. Now to be rather honest with you when she said it over the telephone I was thinking she said Bed Pan and I was a little taken back given that I could not think for the life of me how a Bed Pan would help with my sweating at night.
At any rate, the Bedfan ended up being the life saver I was trying to find. For me to explain how it works I will take a passage from one of the first users of the fan. One lady said it was like cooling off under a waterfall and not getting wet at all. That is precisely how it felt. Starting from that first night on, I never had night sweats again. Now don’t misread I can sense my body getting hotter and only from routine for a while I expected to start sweating, yet it in no way happened.
They say that the way this thing works is, as your body gets hot, your bed is not able to reduce that heat quickly enough. By way of the Bedfan the heat is pushed out of the bed, in no way giving it an opportunity to increase to sweating. Here is how it feels; the next time you are lying in bed and you begin to feel hot, simply lift up your legs to raise the sheets up high. Then slowly let your legs down and feel the breeze floating across your body to cool it down. This is the way it feels all night long.
After some time I find myself disappointed that I can no longer create children but in any case I am still living. Not only am I still alive but credit to the Bedfan, I am able to sleep again and get the relaxation I require so that I can still have quality time with the wonderful children I do have. I trust this helps someone as much as it has helped me and my partner.
