drenching sweats

Assuming the periodic daytime 'hot flashes' and profuse night-time sweating episodes I've been having are indeed perimenopausal (or menopausal) in nature (as opposed to being seizure-related), would these episodes involve drenching sweats? I ask because this is the third night in a row I've...

A couple of weeks ago I went to a new family doctor (internal medicine). Because my neurologist didn't seem to think my day/night sporadic 'sweat attacks' were seizure-related, I asked this doctor to order a (female) hormone panel on me. He wouldn't do it though? And I remember in the past...