CLL sweats/menopause

[Carmen11]

CLL , Sweats :

Is it likely that CLL is the culprit I am 52 yrs old, female.

Could pre-menopause also be contributing to these.

I get these during the day and nights.

[81ue]

I see on internet sites that some people get night sweats from menopause, however, if you have CLL and have sweats it is urgent to get to a doctor to have them make the determination if it is the CLL and if there were any changes in your numbers if you don't have a recent blood test result.

[Carmen11 in reply to 81ue]

Thank you. I am due blood tests again Oct 10th. I am also having an increase in pain in bones joints muscles. Scary how fast this seems to accelerating...

[81ue in reply to Carmen11]

My first symptom of blood cancer was the night sweats, and fatigue. I hope you get a good report from the doctor when you are tested

[AussieNeil Partner Administrator]

Men get it easy - no possible chance of confusion. Given both sweating from CLL and menopause can happen night and day and both can result in you soaking your clothes, I can only commiserate with our women folk wondering which is responsible.

From webmd.com/menopause/feature...

"Doctors think hot flashes and night sweats are a result of fluctuating or decreasing estrogen levels. When menstrual cycles finally stop, estrogen levels drop fairly dramatically, Omicioli says.

The drop may impact a part of the brain that regulates body temperature. We all have a thermal neutral zone, which means our body temperature stays stable even when the temperature around us changes slightly. Theoretically, a drop in estrogen levels may narrow the thermal neutral zone, so that small changes in outside temperature cause a rise in body heat.

Your body is programmed to keep your core temperature the same, so when the air temperature rises, blood pours into blood vessels (vasodilation) in your skin. You’ll become flushed and start to sweat."

So it's a similar mechanism to cytokines from CLL affecting your body's temperature regulation, presumably in a misguided attempt to fight an infection that isn't there - in a similar way to the flu like fatigue we can experience.

According to this Mayo Clinic article, there are many more possible causes than CLL or menopause, though given a CLL diagnosis and your age, the other causes would be much further down the list:

mayoclinic.org/symptoms/nig...

Neil

[DaleFL]

I sweat severely during the day.

[Carmen11]

I see others have suggested B12. Have you looked into this?

[Hilomom]

I'm a 60 yr old woman, and I sweat in an air conditioned store. It mostly starts when I begin to exert myself. I take B12 and keep an electrolyte drink handy. I usually have one sweat, then it seems like something kicks in and it levels off a bit.

[W00dfin]

I’m male and had a few night sweats. When I told my oncologist he ordered a PET scan which was clear. Yea!

[Carmen11 in reply to W00dfin]

What would the PET scan likely to have shown..... I'm glad whatever it could have been its not 👍

[W00dfin in reply to Carmen11]

They gave me an injection of radioactive tracer and left me alone for 30-40 minutes to give it time to get in my system before the scan. The tracer included a sugar that would be taken by the metabolism of active lymphoma. Any CLL activity/sugar consumption would have “lit up” on the scan.

[Carmen11 in reply to W00dfin]

Thank you for the information

I'll run this by my haemotologist next month.

[W00dfin in reply to Carmen11]

Best wishes!