sweating at night-NEED HELP

Relax everybody, I'll break to him...

Dude -- it's urine. You wet yourself in your sleep. It's cool but I'd definitely be careful about having chicks over (unless you are a chick, in which case, I thought you could only pee sitting down?)

I don't want to jump to conclusions but last year the same exact thing happened to me. It ended up that I had Lyme Disease. Has anything been wrong? For me it was achy joints, back pain, and finally Bell's Palsy. I can remember waking up in my own sweat several times during the night.

Uh...Lyme Disease? I hope not. I'll look into it.

Thanks for the response.

Anyone else?

Have you been losing weight or feeling like you have the flu as well? If so, I'm sorry to break it to you, but you could have HIV! Night sweats are the number one indicator!

Seek professional help. It could be anything. A blood test can rule out some maladies.

Advice on this forum will not give a satisfactory answer. Night sweats can be indicative of many things and could be serious or perhaps not. Overtraining can cause night sweats, but overtraining in and of itself is a broad concept.

See your doctor!!

Not to add to the confusion, but get your iron levels checked. When I was anemic, I had night sweats exactly like you describe 3-4 nights a week.

Night sweats are a typical symptom of exposure to the TB germ. Get a TB test because you'll need to take medication to prevent long-term problems.

Causes and How to Cope

You wake up in the middle of the night, cold, clammy and uncomfortable. Your night clothes are soaked. The damp bed sheets cling to you. Worst of all, by the time you get up, change your night clothes, change the bed and snuggle under the blankets again, you're wide awake. A lot of the time it's almost impossible to get back to sleep. Disturbed sleep - that's why, even though night sweats isn't actually a sleep disorder, I chose to discuss it here.

Night sweats, or nocturnal hyperhydrosis, can be caused by many things. Sweating is a natural body function, but if it becomes bad enough to wake you up night after night, wet and shivering, it has gone beyond "natural." Stanford Medical Center lists the following as possible causes:

Any illness where you suffer from a fever.

Diabetes Insipidus

Hyperthyroidism

Secretion from certain cells in the brain

Anemia

Hypothalamic lesions

Epilepsy

Strokes

Cerebral palsy

Migraine

Spinal cord infarction

Head injury

Familial dysautomia

Anti-nausea medication used in pregnancy

Obstructive sleep apnea

This might be the single worst board on the internet to which you could ask a serious question. It's populated by skinny. stupid fools who have nothing else to fall back on other than a quick 5K when they were 22.

If you are concerned, see your doctor. It could be a number of things, most of which are of no real concern.

This board is truly pathetic.

the outcome of taking medical advice on this forum is probably worse than the outcome of night sweats.

Thanks again for the replies. Will see a doctor asap.

What's your beef? By the way, are you not also part of the same population pool you seem to condemn, considering that you posted a response on this forum?

It seems the answer of choice for this individual is , see a doctor for night sweats.

Do you see the irony in calling this board pathetic, considereing your's is the only angry response?

Has any one suggested menopause?

That's an bloddy awful thing to say,mate!!

wingnut wrote:

That's an bloddy awful thing to say,mate!!

Actually it's not!

STOP. LISTEN. CALL YOUR DOCTOR AND MAKE AN APPOINTMENT. GO SEE HER/HIM ASAP. THEY DO THIS EVERY DAY. DON'T MESS AROUND WITH YOUR HEALTH. I'M SERIOUS. DO IT NOW.