I'm sorry, as I know that it's not what you want to hear, but as soon as I saw that you were a 37 year old woman, my first thought was peri-menopause. Do you know when the other women in your family first became menopausal? This can help you determine what to expect.

Do you wake up with a jolt? It could be that you are simply waking from a particularly intense of frightening dream.

It could potentially also be sleep apnea, so you may want to get that checked.

Well, whatever you do, don't take HRT, as it dramatically increases cancer risk.

I guess you could hope that it's due to a warmer body temperature that is occurring as a result of greater mitochondrial activity in concert with a higher saturated fat intake. I am a lot warmer in general as a result of the change. If I were to set the temperature at the same level as I did before and use the same number of blankets, I'd be waking up drenched as well.

I can't speak for anyone but myself and being a 32 year old male this might be way of but here goes.

I have a few periods every year when I wake up drenched in sweat for no apparent reason. Right now I am having a cold period meaning I wake up from being cold (not sweaty). For me I think it's just some random coincidence. I base this on personal experience with having "conditions" for periods of time. Like some period I am extremely tired, some period I wake up sweaty in the middle of the night. One period I might be feeling terrific and energized. It's not daily or weekly for me it's usually longer than that but not as long as a month.

When I eat 1-3 hours before bed, after a 20 hour fast or longer, I will sweat BAD. Once I started adjusting my eating window I don't wake up sweating anymore. I contributed it to metabolism. And I keep my bedroom temp in the lower 60's (fahrenheit)!

Ever since my husband and I became paleo that we both need it to be cooler/cold when we go to sleep otherwise we are burning up. I have noticed when we have "cheat" meals or extra fruit we might be a bit sweaty at night.

I'm kind of worried that it might be your thyroid. Do you have other symptoms? Have you had that checked?

Night sweats can result from infections... tuberculosis (sp?), AIDs and Chlamydia are 3 conditions that come to mind but there are many others.

I've had night sweats, too! Could a cortisol issue be the culprit? I need to look into thyroid, as well.

This has happened to me too. My theory was I was going to bed in a very cold room so I wore sweatpants and my bedding is super warm. I am thinking I went to sleep cold but got very hot in the night due to too much bedding/clothing.

I had bad night sweats for a long time. Turned out to be sleep apnea.

Three things that associate with SA are gender, overweight, and age.

You might consider a sleep test...

Sounds like peri-menopause to me. Peri-menopause can be a difficult time for your adrenals and thyroid. Make sure that you're getting enough unrefined salt in your diet to support adrenal function, and also make sure that you are getting enough iodine, too...not just for the sake of your thyroid, but for the health of every cell in your body.

Ack! A lot of the responses on here are scary! I think that you should go in and see your doctor. Peri-menopause is often mis-diagnosed - so be careful with the self-diagnoses. I think that your idea of tracking the epsiosed is a good one. I found for the first month eating paleo I was really hot too especially at night - which was strange for me because I was normally always cold. So it coud be your body just working out some nasties from you old way of eating.

Good luck on finding out!

My husband is type 2 diabetic and sometimes in the middle of the night his glucose level drops a bit low and causes him to sweat. Otherwise I'm not sure what it could be, lots of possibilities I suppose. I'm a 39 year old woman and haven't had issues like this "yet".

I was doing the same thing..turned out to be something with liquid sugar.As soon as I quit drinking soda,fruit juice,and tea/coffee with honey, it stopped.

I had this too. At first, I thought it was some kind of perimenopause thing. I found that it's easier to deal with on cold nights as the cold air combated the boiling hot feeling. It started when I was about 30 and I had it for 10 years. I also would feel very tired the morning after it happened. I could never find a pattern. However, I got rid of almost all of it by taking about 400 mg daily of high quality magnesium supplements (NOT the oxide version). It rarely happens now and when it does, it's very light, ie only a little hot feeling, instead of before when it felt like 120 degrees F when it happened.

Accidental ingestion of corn and gluten cause me to have nightsweats. Typically I will wake suddenly and then start sweating about 1 minute later, up to 4 times per night. I suggest that you also look for patterns in your food intake along with the other suggestions.

Jessica,

Am curious if you are supplementing vitamin D3, if so in what form (capsules vs.drops) and with or without A and/or K2? ( or with cod liver oil)?

I had terrible night sweats for months about 10 years before I finally went through the menopause. At the time I was eating SAD and tried various supplements. The one that worked for me maca powder, it helps regulate hormones. Non-paleo I guess.

I'm a 35-year-old woman and I used to have the same problem. But since I've cut out gluten and sugar, and - most importantly, I think - stopped eating at least three hours before bedtime, it doesn't seem to happen anymore. I vote for metabolism, like Aaron said.

I am 35 & have hot episodes thru the day but then when I go to bed its like my furnace kicks on & it's so bad I run my husband out of bed almost always! I wake up very hot & clammy or like last night my hair was wet & my tshirt was too :( Sometimes I wake up 2-3 times a night because I'm hot. I keep my bedroom at about 67. I'm at a loss for a reason but my husband says I've been hot like this as long as we've been together (10yrs).