Night Sweats?

[Grama-Herc]

Let me put it this way. Night Sweats? I have 5, count them "5" layers of bedding on my mattress, with a plastic sheet next to the mattress. I can't afford a new mattress every time I soak it with sweat, so I figured out a long time go to just layer my bedding. I have 4 pillows I sleep with so as they get soaked with sweat, they go on the floor and the next one in line goes under my head. I do however go through a lot of pillows. Seems like I am always throwing away smelly pillows.

I've had night sweats for years and they were really bad a couple of years ago. I can't connect them to any one thing other than possible nightmres that I don't remember. I've thought about going in for a sleep study but I don't think having night sweats would qualify for my insurance to pay and I sure can't afford to pay for one.

I am glad to know that these horrid night sweats are part and parcel of PTSD and it is not just me. They sure are miserable

 

[insomnia]

Yes I suffer from night sweat I would wake up and my entire body would be damp.

 

[Artista]

I started to have night sweats once in a while after my son was born. Clearly it was from fatigue or an overwhelmingly alone feeling at first. They leveled off but I have them again with the nightmares sometimes. Hate waking that way... so cold then and drenched. Hard to find sleep again.

 

[disconnect]

I'm exactly the same, especially lately. I sleep with a fan on and the windows open (only when it's hot like it is in Summer, at the moment) and I still wake up completely drenched in sweat. It's horrible.

 

[pandora]

I thought my sweating was more related to my medication intake. Now that I am no longer taking that medication I can't blame in on that anymore and I continue to wake up soaked. It happens but if I am more stressed and having a bad day this is what happens to me too. Wonderful PTSD...if I ever get the courage to date again it should be interesting to try and explain this gross symptom. I also sweat more in the day than I EVER did. The last 6 years have been a total change for me in this respect too..I am applying and reapplying deodorant constantly in the day and it is the most expensive type with both a deodorant and an anti-perspirant...I get sweat marks under my arms and have to be careful about what I wear and when, that part sucks. I get so embarassed when I see a sweat mark...

 

[njray]

It has finally happened (OKAY NJ be honest u are among friends...... It has been 3 nights in a row)........ Last night (Just like the last 2) it was cool in my region...I normally use a light flannel sheet and light throw to sleep......It was at 3:00 am (the new 6:00 am for me) and after waking from the now normal series of dreams and nightmares that are my new beep of the alarm clock I found myself as feeling like a cold sandwich wrap. Yep boxers and T shirt drenched pillow saturated........cold and very clammy....from head to toe. When I tried to get up to fetch my nice cold glass of morning h20 I felt dizzy and although awake I was drained....dehydrated like I just ran a marathon....... R these the sweats everyone is talking about? Now what do I do......

 

[njray]

I have retraced and re-tracked....what has been new in my day that could cause these unwanted cold salty raindrops in my bed. Nothing that I can figure out.......The dreams are a little more intense but again they are not new nor are the subject matters either....... Is this just a phase? A step? I hate the feeling of unwanted moisture.....I just checked my T shirts I did not realize it but the crystallized salt residue is all over them from the last 2 prior nites...I can not tell if I was experiencing this phenomena prior as all the wash was done so there are no traces to be found...... When I took my am shower this morning It felt as if I had come back from a day at the beach..... Great I love the water at the shore..my one solace....... is this now going to be waning on my inner being and be another trigger... I will not let the negatives over take the one positive I still posses

 

[redheaded moppet]

I've had a couple nightsweats earlier on, but not as bad as some described here. What I've been noticing recently though is that I am sweating a LOT more during the day, and couldn't figure out why. Seems to happen without warning, and next thing I know ugh - I have a damp shirt and it is annoying. The weird thing is it has been happening and I haven't been upset or had anything going on that to me would trigger it; my mind is calm but clearly my body is reacting to something. How long might this go on, and what tends to cause it, because this has really begun only in the last couple weeks. I'm not on any medication, I don't drink anything with caffeine, etc.

 

[shell]

I got night sweats when I first started having nightmares every night. I used to wake up, start dry wrenching and be shaking and dripping. Really gross. I found the pillow protectors I brought for my sons allergy issues protected the pillows, and I could just throw them in the washing machine. They weren't really expensive. Thankfully I'm past that stage , getting changed every night was a pain, and having a shower in the middle of the night just not practical, but my hair was soaked.

 

[Gamereign555]

I had that in the beginning, I think I was pretty stressed out during that phase. I would sweat enough to wet the sheets and pillow, my back and chest and neck would also be all sweaty.. I do remember that I would always wake up on my back..which is odd because I never sleep that way.

 

[MizzSuzan]

After my initial trauma I suffered from severe night sweats. I would literally wake up drenched in sweat as if I just stepped out of a pool. I had to throw my couch out when I moved because I had sweated it out. As time went on I had them less and less as the nightmares became infrequent but recently my ptsd has been getting worse again and again I find myself with horrible night sweats once more. Does anyone know if there is something we can do to help with the night sweats?

 

[BlackbirdSinging]

I definitely have night sweats. It seems like sometimes I have them more than others. Sometimes I wake up startled and sweaty and sometimes I just wake up sweaty. When I wake up sweaty I'm soaked. My pillow my sheets. It's awful.