Night Sweats

[jewel]

Does anyone here get night sweats? The kind where you are comp,etely drenched from head to toe and you just don't know why....if yes, can someone explain why this happens?

 

[Bordo66]

Might be nightmares and I'm guessing you can't remember them. Not sure though

 

[cherryblossom]

Nightmares is a good suggestion. If it's every night it could be medication side effects.
Also if you drink heavily, then stop, that can cause night sweats. Or hormones?

It might be worth getting a physical health check, rather than just assuming it's due to mental health issues.

 

[KP the nut]

Yes, I put mine to hormones, girlie stuff :roflmao:. And the fact it has become too bloody hot to quickly

 

[victoria]

Yes, I have night sweats every night, too many to count. I was attributing it to hormones from menopause, but my hot flashes during the day have disappeared, so now I wonder if they may be related to the numerous nightmares I have. I've started a natural supplement made from red clover, hoping it works.

 

[Behindthemirror]

Nightsweats can also be from meds.

 

[mamachick]

I use to have night sweats-it was menopause. I don't know how old you are but I agree that it isnt necessarily ptsd related and might need checked.

 

[jewel]

Not old enough for menopause yet. I don't drink, so isn't that. I think it is likely nightmares. I wake up with a sense at I had nightmares but I can't remember them.

 

[shell]

I get the same thing, wake up drenched, feel nausea and can't remember a thing, have had flashbacks not long after waking, so maybe I was dreaming but not remembering.

 

[Tinyflame]

I think I've figured out something after 25 years of this. I know they are (or can be) related to how stressed out I am. But for the first time ever, I noticed something in bed this morning (because I was awake). I woke up (had had them), changed, sheets etc, turned up the heat, turned on electric blanket, went back to bed. Had shooting pain from my stomach, you know the kind that permeates like a ripple through your body? It was a super cold/ painful sensation, and it made me feel freezing. Then I 'bundled up' with the covers, each piercing one felt cold, and made me feel cold, but I started to sweat. And the pain is related (started) with stomach/ bleeding issues, so I guess in that way stress-related (as well). So maybe it's the experience of physical pain (as we sleep)?

And you know, it can be a cycle: stress causes pain, but pain causes stress, etc.

 

[Barberian]

I often have night sweats. I'm a guy. I often have to move the pillow and where I'm laying to let my bedding dry out. I've had them since my first cruise during the first Gulf War. I didn't have PTSD back then, but the groundwork was in place (the first of my traumas). It doesn't matter if it's cold or hot season. I actually sleep outside all year long, in the back of an old U-Haul truck we have. It's not heated or air conditioned. 20 F on a winter night, 90+ F on some summer nights.

I have them regardless of what med I may be on at the time.

 

[Dee Morris]

This is a problem for me when I'm on medication. It happens on occasion not on meds, usually when I have a lot of stress. Some of it could be my age. I'm 44 so my dwindling hormone production could be a reason.