Night Sweats

[Tinyflame]

Yes @Barberian me too. I don't mean it's related to external temperature, what I mean is the subjective temperature we seem to 'feel' (cold because of physical pain, or perhaps cold because of fear?, ie. the mind and body mentally reliving or rehashing trauma), might signal to our body to 'warm up'. (But in reality the necessity is 'not' to warm up because the ambient temperature and the external temperature of our bodies is not cold, as we feel). If that makes sense.

I've had them since about 18?, not on meds so it's not that. It doesn't correspond to any monthly hormonal changes, only stress (and sunday night physical pain, and perhaps stress). Stress makes me cold, think it's the fight-or-flight thing.

 

[Deleted member 12723]

I used to have very bad night sweats which I attribute to stress and nightmares. I would wake up totally drenched and have to change my clothes.

At the time I was under extreme amounts of stress as I was a care giver twenty four seven for my husband who had severe dementia.

I still have the occasional night sweats but it is not very often anymore.

I wish you the best. Going to the doctor for a check up is a good idea.

 

[Blink]

It happens once in a greater while when I finally get to sleep under a lot of stress. I generally don't remember any nightmare with it though.

 

[berryblade]

This happens to me all the time, I have to change my sheets about every second or third day (although I'm usually too depressed to do this and so it ends up being like once a week) because I'll wake up in the night or the next morning and the bedsheets are literally completely soaked like someone's poured a bucket of water on it.

 

[user27357]

I agree with the pain theory. During the day I notice my pain and use techniques I have learned to live with it. I am so used to the extreme pain that unless it is too much to bear I can ignore it right up to the point that I start to sweat. When my ears sweat, I am having an exrtremem amount of pain, when the hair on my arms stands up and I sweat, it is about to become unbearable.

All this pain comes from many injuries to my abdomen followed by several emergency surgeries that have left me with hernias and suture scars that pull and tense up all the time.

My night sweats are enough to make it impossible to go back to sleep when they are bad, difficult at best. And I sweat every night to some degree. They are not caused by meds, I don't take opiates to avoid addictions and I don't use aspirin to avoid stomache problems, I muddle through this as long as possible until the next catastrophe and surgery and the docs get another reluctant shot at getting these repairs right.

Wish I could help. The only thing that helps me is AC and something to distract me when it gets hard to sleep, these days it is XM satellite radio, I used to read, I used to watch TV.

 

[Disquieted]

I often wake up drenched. I think it's a combination of nightmares and that I can't sleep unless I am bundled up in blankets and my comforter. It's a safety thing. I feel exposed and so afraid without my covers at night. Logically I'm just hot.