Bed is on fire: thermometer leg?

I was talking to Meg a few years ago (everyone needs a Meg, that super-wise, superhot friend who is ten years older and can give you the all important heads-ups on what is to come) about getting warm at night and whether it was the beginnings of menopause or life in bed with a husband and three cats under a down quilt and she said “oh yeah? Do you get thermometer leg?”

The…what is it now? Thermometer leg? “Yeah,” she continued, “it’s when you start overheating at night and you kick one leg out of the covers to bring your temperature down. It’s totally hormonal and it gets worse.”

This is wtf I am talking about, people. Thermometer leg is such a known thing that it has a name and apparently we are all doing it. And isn’t it kind of nice to know we are all doing it? Like the biggest, shittiest slumber party of overheatedness. But also very cute to think of all of us snuggled in, except for our thermometer legs.

From a mild sensation of too warmness leading to the amazing thermometer leg strategy, many of us will progress to hot flashes, and then night sweats, wherein our bodies cope with feeling way too hot using the time honored strategy of sweating. So yes, thermometer leg is the beginning of the end.

Wondering - do you overheat? And when you do have you coped with flinging a thermometer leg out of the bed clothes? And along those lines, have you tried allegedly cooling bamboo sheets? Linen PJs? One genius patient of mine going through this started wearing her sweat-wicking running clothes to bed! What has worked for you and what should we all be trying?