Rheumatoid arthritis hot flushes

[cpr02]

Does anyone else ever experience this

? It usually happens when I wake up my pjamas are drenched in sweat like I've been really hot overnight

Is it connected with rA?

Thanks x

[Hidden]

This happens to me first just at night but get it in the day time now as well . Went for a walk just an hour ago freezing cold outside I’m sweating buckets. Fir me it’s a sign my disease is active. I know I’ve over done it today joints swollen and body over heating

[cpr02 in reply to Hidden]

Thanks would make lot of sense as it is ! Have had a steroid injection but didn't help xx

[Hidden in reply to cpr02]

Thesteroid could make you sweat as well. So many variables 🤷🏽‍♀️I feel I’m always second guessing xx

[cpr02 in reply to Hidden]

It was around two weeks ago now xx

[Hidden in reply to cpr02]

For me the benefits of a steroid injection only kick in about 10 days after .

[rab1874]

Yes I can sympathise with you,covers on covers off, my usual patter at night time xx

[vonniesims in reply to rab1874]

Yes, starts in the evening and stops about 4am. Sure its RA or drugs

[rab1874 in reply to vonniesims]

Yes I think it’s another side effect of RA

[benjijen]

I didn't put this down to my inflammatory arthritis, just age or thyroid, but it makes sense. My bed covers are on and off all night and if I put my glasses on for some reason during the night they steam up! It's not like that every night but about half of them. Don't know what the answer is.

[Dobcross1]

Ye! Boiling hot, then too cold. Can't win 🤷‍♀️🤦‍♀️

[Linda-C]

I have to have a cool bedroom or I keep waking up too hot, then have to get up to go to the loo. It’s a pain, I am so pleased when I wake first at a reasonable time. Just doing this on the phone my son brought me for Christmas. So happy Christmas to all

[Hidden in reply to Linda-C]

Lucky you a phone for Christmas .. I got several bottles of gin... wonder what that says about me😁.

My bedroom is positively arctic still wake up sweaty.

[Linda-C in reply to Hidden]

It’s nice to know other people have the same problem and I am not imagining it

[Hidden in reply to Linda-C]

😂😂cheers

[Lizard28 in reply to Hidden]

I Got a lovely bottle of cognac and a nice bottle of Hendricks gin, what does that say about me 😜🥂x I’d also get the sweats checked out by your doctor, it could be another problem, best to be safe.

[Hidden in reply to Lizard28]

Give people a bad name 😂😂

I have seen the gp and my Clinic they confirmed RA I’ve been constantly sweating since Christmas Eve I think baricitnib that I started a month ago not working it started so well. I’m swollen stiff and sweating 🤬gin might be a better medication 😁

[Ms-D in reply to Hidden]

You poor thing. My Idacio has given up. I swear I'm menopausal too or ra is active. Fun times....need my baileys now

[Hidden in reply to Ms-D]

Oh 🤬this trial error to find the “one” is so draining. I’ve gone through the menopause so it’s not that for me. Since Christmas Eve I’ve been sweating and my joints swollen and stiff struggling to put on shoes hubby had to help.slept nearly all day. Only day 35 of Baricitinib so gotta keep going.

I’m on the gin. Rather self inflicted misery than RD misery at Least I enjoy while drinking.x

[Ms-D in reply to Hidden]

Are you taking the biologic weekly?

[Hidden in reply to Ms-D]

No a tablet a day . Methotrexate once a week

[Ferret18]

I put it down to the menopause - but have same symptoms

[Boxerlady in reply to Ferret18]

It's definitely the menopause for me 😅

[oldtimer]

Yes for some years now. I used to think it was the menopause but that's now a distant memory... I have a silk lightweight duvet (bought in a sale) which I can wave about easily, but still wake in the night often saturated in sweat. I get up, go to the loo, stand and look out at the dark (or last night the stars), look at the temperature in the room (16C) and get back into bed hoping it's dried out a bit. The rheumy team have said variously that it's the steroids, the medication I'm on, it's the Rheumatoid Disease - but no solutions.

[Hidden in reply to oldtimer]

Parallel world old timer exactly the same down to the duvet.

[Hidden]

It could be the RA. I had it just a couple of times before my treatment started (definitely wrong age for menopause!). I'd only had it previously when given some very strong antibiotics for recurrent chest infections. My specialist said when bugs die they release toxins and that can cause the night sweats. I had much more trouble with feeling very cold and shivery in the very early (pre-diagnosis) days of RA. I'd be wrapped up in a shawl with a fan heater blasting me and my poor husband would be sweltering in a thin shirt. It gets us all ways!!

[Hidden]

I am nearly always hot and sweaty when everyone else is complaining about how cold they are too. I was once laying on top of the duvet all night pouring with sweat and the next day, it said it had been the coldest night for several years. Another time, my son came in from work telling me it was snowing outside when I was just about to say how hot it was. Sometimes I will sweat from the top of my head so that it runs down my face and it looks as if I have just been washing my hair. I was once out with a friend and was about to say to her that it had started raining when I realised that the water that I thought was rain was actually sweat running down my face and down my neck. Every doctor or rheumy that I have mentioned it to, just looks puzzled and doesn't seem to know what to say.

[cpr02]

Not menopause for me but its been an issue since diagnosed I also seem to feel hot very easily to the point it's so uncomfortable xx

[Blueskysunshine]

I’ve had these for the last few weeks, which coincides with the return of swollen and painful joints. You could’ve wrung my t-shirt out last night 😕

[Allije]

I understand what you are going through as I suffered similar problems for many many years. This was particularly bad during the menopause, but was little better 10 years later. However, after hip surgery in January this year I was told by rheumatology nurse not to restart NSAIDs as they are now not recommended for long term use. I had been taking them for probably 30years and always joked that my thermostat was broken as I was constantly hot. So many side effects which I had accepted as part of RA have now disappeared. I feel really well now (besides pain and stiffness).

As others have suggested, this may well be caused by drugs and not even anything particularly potent like a steroid.

Hope you are able to discuss with a HP soon and get some relief. Disturbed sleep is exhausting and debilitating.

[Mmrr]

Yes, my rheumatologist tried to tell me it was the menopause, despite having gone through it 15 years previously. When I'm unwell I'm up and down during the night, hot and sweaty, when I'm a bit better I'm not nearly so hot.

The summer months are a nightmare...literally....for trying to sleep 🥵

[Hidden in reply to Mmrr]

Ditto

[embroy]

I think you have Menopause. There are Capsules from Holland and Barrett and are called Soya Isoflavones, they are quite helpful. I have been talking them for about 6 to 7 years, no side effects it's natural, no harm in trying.

[cpr02 in reply to embroy]

Me ?? X

[cpr02]

Its strange because I'm not in pain ...although am just coming out of a flare up don't anticipate being able to talk to anyone soon x

[Lyneal]

I often wake about 3am with hot flush, the only thing I can think of is RA. I am way past menopause.

[agnes-D]

strange to say but happy to see these replies. Suffering from sweating ++ and now palpitations. GP thinks I,m mad I,m sure. On methotrexate and benapali injections both weekly. assume it must be these causing symptoms. Poor hubby has to put up with light weight duvet.

[Hidden in reply to agnes-D]

Welcome to the club 😁😁although not a club you want to join. Its good when you your not on your own and not going mad .My poor hubby wears layers to bed.🙄

[Hidden]

I have been having health problems for about two years now. Initially diagnosed with CLL, chronic leukemia, which has MANY symptoms similar to RA. Sweating is one of them. I have to change my night gown and sheets sometimes. I change my clothes many times during most days. My hands and feet are always quite cold. Once at a business meeting I started dripping sweat off my nose onto the table! I have had sweating since way after menopause was over, for ten years or more.