hot flashes
"After a tussle with breast cancer I was prescribed tamoxifen and immediately started with the hot flushes.  I was waking at least every hour at night and gradually turning into a sleep deprived wreck when I went to see the doctor.  Initially she prescribed clonidine but that did virtually nothing.  She then tried to give me fluoxitine but I read that you should not take that with tamoxifen so she changed it to gabapentin.  From the first dose I got relief.  I still get the flushes but they are more like gentle warming events than the full on sweating nightmares of before.  It has changed my life.  I wish this was more widely known as the change in the quality of life is so extreme."