I'd also like to thank you for starting this thread. I have come to accept my nightly awakenings as normal... Sometimes I sleep through, sometimes I don't. But this thread has started me thinking if I should address this problem.

I am almost 46. My sleep problems have actually gone on for a few years. If I wake up in the middle of the night, I immediately begin sweating and need to throw off the covers. I do not begin sweating until shortly after I wake up, so is this "night sweats?" After I have finished sweating and I have cooled down, I throw the covers back on and continue sleeping. I think I have been having this problem for years and years... I am a furnace in the mornings and cold when I go to bed at night.

I don't drink alcohol or coffee. I am one of those people who can fall asleep in minutes (except in the middle of the night, due to the sweating problem).

Then, during the day, I would alternate hot and cold. Reading some forums, I went out to buy black cohosh, but I found it completely ineffective. Soon after I gave up on black cohosh, my daytime hot/cold problem disappeared. A week ago, it has reappeared.

My periods are still completely regular, like clockwork. Does anyone else have this sweating problem, not waking up from sweat, feeling comfortable when awakened, but my furnace kicks in and I start sweating after waking up?