Brief night sweats

[arty-fact]

Hi, I was wondering if anyone had tips for dealing with temperature regulation in bed at night? I get short, upper body hot flashes 3 or 4 times a night.

I had quite a lot of hot flush problems when I was first diagnosed 14 years ago, but they have not bothered me for years. I'm wondering if it could possibly be a sign that my liver's not detoxing things so well? I don't really drink alcohol - maybe one glass a week. I've started back on B1 - very very low dose - only one 100mg tablet a day. I do generally feel better, but sometimes just on the edge of jittery, so I'm trying a day or two a week off.

[BeedieBird]

I had the same and an herb, Sage, which I bought on Amazon, taken at bedtime resolved the issue entirely. amazon.com/HERBAMAMA-Sage-C...

[arty-fact in reply to BeedieBird]

Thanks BeedieBird - I will try that

[JohnPepper]

I'm afraid that I can't help yo with that one. I still get them, even whn I have been doing the fast walking. I just don't let them bother me. It is esier said than done. I really do feel very uncomfortable when it is happening, but it hasn't killed me yet.

[arty-fact in reply to JohnPepper]

Thanks JohnPepper. I actually found some advice on an older post here suggesting taking vitamin c before bed. I've done this for 2 nights now and had a couple of better nights sleep and fewer hot moments. Fingers crossed!

[Reetpetitio]

Chinese Medicine would be great for this. The Triple Warmer meridian regulates temperature control in the body and they would be all over these symptoms . Ideally, find a Chinese Medicine doctor who is actually Chinese. Second choice is a well trained Westerner. If you can do herbs as well as acupuncture that is best. They have a great track record with Parkinsons in general as well as many other chronic diseases that Western medicine falls short on. They have 2000 years of experience after all

If finances make this impossible then look for a multi-bed acupuncture clinic which would be cheaper, or a student /supervised clinic. Acupuncture alone may well resolve or improve this as well as your overall wellbeing.

[arty-fact in reply to Reetpetitio]

Thanks for the great reminder. I did go and see a Chinese doctor for years, and had lots of acupuncture. I just decided to take a break and never went back. I will now

[Rebtar]

I use an ooler.

[arty-fact in reply to Rebtar]

I had to look this up! Will investigate more, thanks

[Rebtar in reply to arty-fact]

It really helped during warm months…

[MarionP]

I have some lovely powerful yet quiet fans, very well made, all manner of sizes and speeds, by Vornado, can't say enough good things about Vornado's construction and quality, far beyond anything else I've ever seen in my 60-odd nearly 70 years for all purposes. Sometimes I have a fan on me directly for a bit, at other times the fan is aimed somewhere else because they are extremely well designed and will provide a flow like a beam that can bounce off of walls and in a focused stream that can be put on your directly or indirectly because those streams go a long way, surprisingly long way and are tight, something you don't tend to think about in regard to fans but yes, a tight beam with a high air moving capacity that can be positioned a long way away or close, directly on you or indirectly bouncing off of some other way and getting to you, like a tennis ball.

Also at times I use a ceiling fan, and they can both be used in concert and being different places to find the best mix and timing and controls from bedside to other places, which experiment around with quite a bit and find real helpful cooling me off and drying me off and yet keeping other parts from getting too cold.

We also have and use a couple of electrically heated throws, they are 50 in. by 60 in., and sometimes I put them under my feet in bed, sometimes between the sheet and me but above, and there are many ways to do these things so that my feet don't freeze while I'm doing other things, and actually we both like having, not an electric blanket but an electric throw, because sometimes the same time one part of a body is hot the other part of the body is cold sometimes we want them above our feet but touching our feet and sometimes above our feet over the sheet, and they work either way depending on what we want or need.

[arty-fact in reply to MarionP]

Thanks Marion. It's poetic the way you write about your fans - I'm going to try and create my own personal temperature zone