Heavy perspiration from the scalp

[Kimchi]

Wondering if anyone else perspires heavely from the scalp?  I don't wear wigs, I use a 1 ply, very thin cotton scarf yet my head is wet all the time.  sometimes while sleeping, I will shift positions and can feel my head start to perspire.  Is this from menopause? chemo? how long will this continue? My hair is starting to grow back

[crecco]

I have to say that I also suffer from head sweats. Due to the horrid hot flashes I have from surgical menopause. But the head sweats seem to be their most worse when also dealing with hair loss. I have had my head get hot before, but when I have no hair, it actually gets wet all over when I have really bad hot flashes.
  As far as a connection between ov ca and head sweats, the only connection I see is the sweating from the hot flashes.
         Chris

[Kimchi]

When I posted this question, I getting taxol and carbo every three weeks and was a little concerned cause I noticed that I perspired heavily from my head. This I never noticed before!!  At the time I wrote this, I was dealing with surgical menopause, baldness due to chemo, tropical humid climate and chemo poisoning.  So I wanted to know if this was normal or if anyone else had noticed or experienced thisll!!!

As for a connection between head sweats and ovarian cancer, don't think there is any.  In your case, since you had a precautionaray hysto (which I think means before you actually hit menopause age), you may be experiencing what is called surgical menopause... I was told by my ONc that this does happen to many women.

BTW, my problem stopped about 4 months after I stopped chemo!!!

[Jan214]

Mine only does that at night no matter how cool the room.  I am also a mattress, bed pad, sheet, pillow, expert and I don't allow anything but cotton for several layers down even with an extra cotton cloth under the mattress pad. (All that poly/nylon stuff is bad for you)  Maybe you could a cap that is designed to pull the sweat away from you like some baseball/workout caps do. I have one I used to wear to the gym and it works.
I also get a really sensitive scalp and that sems to have a pattern only I haven't remembered to write them down to figure it out and of course I can't remember a thing.  Have you had any scalp sensitivity when you wash your hair/scalp?
Good Luck,
Jan.

[anidam]

This is scary. I didn't know about any connection between head sweats and ovarian cancer. I had breast cancer 25 years ago, and one year of chemo. A few years ago I found out that I am BRCA 1 & 2 positive, so I had a precautionary complete hysterectomy since those genetic conditions are a strong predictor of ovarian cancer. The hysterectomy, I am told, is not fullproof in stopping ovarian cancer, since the cells may also be present elsewhere. At times I develop extreme night sweats. And recently I have had extreme head sweats, even when I am not warm. Are there other causes?

[Conquerer]

Heck my head will be fine one moment and then start sweating like crazy.  Having already thru menopause and never have that sysmtom I think chemo is to blame.  we live in texas so I just turn up the fan and dry my head off.

Good luck
God bless

[nyc lady]

I never had to go thru chemo....I can tell you that when I have "night sweats" it drips from my head down....so, I guess for you it could be menopausal related.  I do not know about chemo side-effects.

[dian07]

Hey there kiddo....I don't have any idea why, but my head produced buckets of sweat!  I could literally wipe enough sweat off my head I could splash someone next to me.....my son didn't think it was as funny as I did!  So...yup....I know of which you speak!
Peace.
dian