Re: Night sweats

[Guest guest]

Hi ,

Yes this is a common problem. My experience in this is that I have them for a

while and then it lets up for a while. I wish I had an item to suggest for

this but I don't. Hope you get through this and that the condition let's up for

you for at least a while.

Best wishes, Poncho - GA

[Guest guest]

Dear ,

When I was first diagnosed with chronic pancreatitis I had

horrible night sweats for the first couple of months. Then for the

following two years, no night sweats whatsoever. I'm post

menopausal, and had stopped having that kind of a problem

seven years ago (the menopausal hot flashes and night

sweats). First I'll ask, are you in the age group where you may

be starting menopause? I started early at 40.

Then in March, when I became diabetic and started on insulin,

the night sweats started up again. Every night now I have them.

I, too, have to get up and change at least once or twice every

night. I've discussed this with my doctor's, my GI, and my

Internist, and they have done several tests to try to determine the

cause, but so far cannot find any cause for it. And I don't have

any SOD problems. I have any appointment with my Endo next

week and plan to discuss it with him, to see if he has any ideas.

I know this really isn't an answer, but at least you will know you're

not the only one.

With hope and prayers,

Heidi

Heidi H. Griffeth

South Carolina

SC & SE Regional Rep

PAI, Intl.

Note: Comments or advice are personal opinion only, and

should not be substituted for professional medical consultation.

> I wake up several times a night and I am SOAKED.

Sometimes I change night shirts 3-4 times a night and my hair

and pillow are soaked through the next morning.

>

[Guest guest]

Heidi,

could you possibly be having low or high blood sugar

reactions in the middle of the night? I know I sweat a lot

when I am either high or low. Have you tried checking your

bloodsugar when you wake up from the sweating?

Kimber

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Kimber

Vallejo, CA

hominid2@...

Note: All advice given is personal opinion, not equal to

that of a licensed physician or health care professional.

[Guest guest]

Dear Kimber,

Naturally that was one of my first reactions, especially since I do

have hypo's on occasion. But, nope, that wasn't it. I tested each

time I woke up drenched in sweat for the first few weeks, it didn't

matter, I could be as low as 50, normal like 100 or up to 147.

Fortunately, none of the middle of the night tests were

exceedingly high and 95% of the time the BG's were in the

neighborhood of 100. I am having my HbA1c done tomorrow,

and meet with my Endo next week, so I'll tackle this problem

again with him. My GI, Internal Medicine Dr. and Internist have all

drawn blanks even after tests and blood work. Perhaps the

Endo will have a fresh idea. I'm anxious to see the results of the

A1c since now I've got the new glucometer I can check my

averages and my 7 day was 104, 14 day was 107 and 30 day

was 114! Hopefully this will mean a good A1c!

The night sweats have really become a problem I could live

without. If it only happened once in a while it wouldn't be so bad.

When hubby's home, my waking and changing clothes disturbs

him. I can't change the sheets since that totally wakes him, so

then I either move to the guest room or put down a folded sheet

over the damp one on my side. He hates for me to sleep in the

guest room, though, since he's only home three nights a week

and likes to have me there. When he's on a trip, I just change

clothes and then get in his unoccupied side of the bed. But it

has become such a pain in the bum to do this night after night

after night, and I'm finding I have to nap every day now just to

catch up on my sleep.

So if I seem short and grumpy on my early morning posts, you'll

know what the reason is.......sleep depravation!

Thanks for your imput.

With hope and prayers,

Heidi

Heidi H. Griffeth

South Carolina

SC & SE Regional Rep

PAI, Intl.

Note: Comments or advice are personal opinion only, and

should not be substituted for professional medical consultation.

> could you possibly be having low or high blood sugar reactions

in the middle of the night?

Kimber

[Guest guest]

Heidi,

It was a thought. I don't always have night sweats and they

aren't bad enough where i have to change the sheets. I

occasionally need to change, but it hasn't really hit my

sheets yet. Maybe it's because I don't really sleep with

many covers, so I don't get very hot from them. I usually

only sleep with a light cover and a sheet (and occasionally

an electric blanket in the winter) and in the summer I

frequently don't even use a cover or a sheet at all.

Kimber

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Kimber

Vallejo, CA

hominid2@...

Note: All advice given is personal opinion, not equal to

that of a licensed physician or health care professional.

[Guest guest]

dear kimber,

my dougther doesn`t have any sugar problem, but the

pain in the nigth is terrible when she is with a

crisis, her problem is genetic so she had a papilotomy

and now she is better.

Sorry my english but i speak spanish.

Marìa del Pilar.

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[Guest guest]

Pilar.

I wish I spoke more spanish (I can say hello and a few other

phrases in Spanish), but I don't.

My pain is usually worse at night. Mine is due to a birth

defect called a pancreatic divisum. It means the ducts are

divided into two instead of one duct that is y shaped. I am

glad your daughter is doing better.

Kimber

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Kimber

Vallejo, CA

hominid2@...

Note: All advice given is personal opinion, not equal to

that of a licensed physician or health care professional.

[Guest guest]

Hi,

I have had this problem on and off for years and no doc said to me why this

happen, to be more correct they had to me various answers, different ones.

One said that it's from weakness, other from hormones, other from infection

so according my symptoms I developed my own answer.

I can tell that this happen when I will caught a infection, heavy flu for

example and when I have hormonal imbalance close to my periods.

Last month I had a bout of night sweats, I woke up in middle of the night in

soaking, I had to change all my clothes (incl. my underwear), really nasty..

As I also had hot flashes during the day (head, neck and chest), I think

that I need to check my hormone's levels.

By for now,

Liane

[Guest guest]

Dear ,

I sure wish I had an answer for you, because the night

sweats/soreness have caused me nightly problems for over six

months now. When I was first diagnosed with CP 2 1/2 years

ago, they started, but only occasionally, and within a couple of

months they disappeared entirely. Then immediately after my

release from the hospital in March, when I first started on insulin

after being diagnosed with diabetes, they started again and have

never ceased. I've probably had only three dry nights in the last

six months. They soak me, my pillow, both top and bottom sheet

and even the blanket above, and I often have to change sleeping

attire two or three times a night, because once I'm wet like that I

then get cold.

Let me explain that I'm post menopausal and finished the

menopausal night sweats and hot flashes well over eight years

ago, so we know it's not caused by that. My respective doctors

have tested my hormones anyway, and they were fine. My

GI/Internal medicine physician also ran some other tests, and

everything has come back negative. No one seems to have an

explanation for it, and truthfully, I'm about at the end of my rope. It

causes me so much lack of sleep that now I end up fatigued and

sore every morning when I wake up. I don't seem to have

cramps like you do, this is just an all-over achiness and

soreness that takes an hour or so to shake off each morning.

At one time I wondered if it was my medications, but everyone

says this isn't their side effects. I'm on the duragesic patch, take

Percocet, Synthroid (just started that), Celexa and two handfulls

of various antioxidants and vitamins. Any similarities in our

meds?

I'm have an appointment with my GI on Monday morning to

review my ultrasound pics of my pseudocysts and I plan to bring

this up with him again to see if we can find some answer. It's

really gotten so persistant that it's driving me CRAZY!!!!

Sorry I didn't have an answer for you, just wanted to let you know

that you're not alone in your damp misery.....BTW, I don't have

SOD.

With hope and prayers,

Heidi

Heidi H. Griffeth

South Carolina

SC & SE Regional Rep.

PAI, Intl.

Note: All comments and advice are personal opinion only, and

should not be substituted for professional medical consultation.

> Does anyone have any input into the night sweats. Does it just

go along with CP? Also, any input on the body aches would be

greatly appreciated as this pretty much just started with me.

(Ohio)

[Guest guest]

Grace gets night sweats from being hypoglycemic. If we do not do preventitive measures it is a guarantee that she will wake up in the morning soaking wet, and usually very shaky. I do not know if there is any link to ketosis or not, but I am sure someone else on the list will. Just wanted to let you know what causes it for our little one.

[Guest guest]

Arlene,

Before starting the mito cocktail my son had night sweats frequently.

He also frequently went into ketosis overnight. Does anyone know if

sweating is linked to ketosis? Now he only has problems when he is

sick (or coming down with

something) or when he has a day with too much activity. While visiting

Michigan for my father-in-law's funeral the boys and their Uncle Mike

got "lost" during on

a hike in the woods and the hike was much longer than intended. That

night Evan had a drenching night sweat, and he was talking in his sleep

(as far as I know it was the first time he ever did this).

We are back in Texas, and as much as I hate rain I am glad that it is

not too hot this week esp. after being spoiled with the great weather

in Michigan last week,

[Guest guest]

after being spoiled with the great weather in Michigan last week,

, Thanks for the good laugh! I live in Mich and we have a saying here- "If you don't like the weather, wait 5 minutes".

Where were you visiting, if you don't mind me asking?

e, Chelsea's mom(nonspcific mito)

[Guest guest]

We made an unplanned trip to the Detroit suburbs for my

father-in-law's funeral. He passed away after a lengthy battle with

cancer. He started chemo the week before he died, but he just

wasn't strong enough to tolerate the drugs and the immunosuppression.

We were very lucky that he was able to come to Texas for 's

confirmation at the beginning of May.

Texas has only one kind of weather in the summmer TOO HOT!!

[Guest guest]

Beth,

Matt may just sweat a lot even though he is not ketotic. Max sure

does. He does not have hypoG except when he is sick, but he sweats

a whole lot. While the rest of us are freezing, Max will be outside

in a sweatshirt and sweating away. And when he sleeps, the rest of

us are covered with down comforters and quilts, but Max sleeps with

only a sheet at best. Even then, he wakes up from time to time just

drenched. I tell him that he is having hot flashes like me!

We were in Atlanta last weekend. I wanted to call you, but we

arrived later on Friday than we expected and then the wedding was

Saturday in Roswell. We left on Sunday after a brunch at my brother-

in-law's. (I'd rather have called you!!!) But we did fly over

Peachtree City and I waved to you. Did you see me?

Jodi Z