Antidepressant medication may cause excessive sweating. Night sweats can be caused by some pain killing medication with narcotic components like fentanyl. Nicotine and caffeine may also cause excessive sweating.
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Some medicines that can cause hot hlash-like symptoms: Any medication which makes your body process and break down estrogen faster than normally can cause hot flashes, because that produces a functional "mini-menopause", with a milder version of the usual hot flashes, mood swings, poor sleep, vaginal dryness and decrease in libido, etc. Some anti-seizure medicines can do this--Tegretol, for instance. There are other meds that can do this, too. Other medicines, like the B Vitamin niacin, cause the little arteries to the sking to relax/widen, and this can cuaue a flushing/stinging a lot like a sunburn--temporary and harmless, though.
extacy and PCB both trigger sweating directly, cocane and speed both make people rush about, which can cause sweating, and hallucinogenics can trigger a terror response, causing cold sweats.
The medications most commonly associated with hyperhidrosis are propranolol, venlafaxine, tricyclic antidepressants, pilocarpine, and physostigmine