profuse sweating

[Moemom]

Hi, I get overheated easy especially my head. I am dripping sweat and have to sit over air conditioner vent to try to cool down. I dont know if the is a side effect from RA or from the prednilisone. Any ideas?

[Lovetodanceto]

Well hey there Moemom really feel for ya know what you mean well I am like this every day think mine is the peri-menopause really comes out of nowhere and I am so red with it all take care 🙂

[Deeb1764]

When I was super bad on my head and it pouring down my face my GP told me to be checked for Vit D whcih he did and I was very low and this got sorted. I now have fibro sweats at the moment different but horrible again but Vit D all good.

[Hidden in reply to Deeb1764]

I’m the same as Dee fibro sweat. If RA active I get extreme dry heat.

[Brushwork in reply to Hidden]

Oh. I get it and thought it was the RA as my Fibro didn't seem to be active. I am definitely past the menopause, so it is not that, its different anyway.

[Hidden in reply to Brushwork]

Problem is who knows 🤷‍♀️it’s so individual x

[Hope444]

Hi, I have the same and I know it’s horribly distressing. I believe it is cranial hydrosis.

[Brushwork in reply to Hope444]

It has a name? Well I had no clue, good to learn new stuff.....

[eastbournelady in reply to Hope444]

Thanks for a name i will look that up!!!

[Mmrr]

I get the sweats too, very much related to RA when not so well controlled.

[Brushwork in reply to Mmrr]

That is what I thought.

[smilelines in reply to Mmrr]

I think so too.

[sylvi]

Both i would think. I sweat from the shoulders upwards often and it has been like it for a long time now, xxx

[RheumST]

I wonder if cooling your body by lying in bathtub full of cold water would help at all. It certainly is the most effective way to cool down the entire body, in the shortest time, and the longest lasting cooling effect. It's what my family does during extremely cold weather, when running lots of fans are just not good enough (we don't use an air-conditioner).

[Hope444 in reply to RheumST]

I run cold water over my wrists help, but don’t forget to take your watch off 🤗

[Diamondpainting]

Hi Moemom. I have exactly the same! I have had it for over 20 years - used to be night sweats with drenched sheets, but for the last 2 years it's just shoulders up. I have the fan on my face every night, but during the late afternoon/evening the sweat is literally dripping off my face, which is really embarrassing if we go out! I do have fibro as well as RA and I think the night sweats coincided with the start of the fibro - although I never put two and two together at the time and just thought it was hormones. Have asked the GP, but they were never really interested so who knows! I do find running my wrists under a freezing cold tap can help.

[Cheeselady]

I am on prednisone after a Crohns flare and get these sweats, there are just like the menopause flushes I got before I started HRT

[smilelines]

I think it is the RA and I take an ice pack to bed. Sometimes I lay it on my chest.

[oldtimer]

Both I think - I'm long past 'menopause' time but the sweating is worse than it was then anyway.

[Zara0123]

Definitely linked to RA and the meds we take. I started getting the sweats after starting the meds as before that I would get the chills and be very cold. I do remember that I use to sweat really easily on my feet since been diagnosed with RA five years ago yet I had cold feet and use to wear thermal socks. I remember my first Rheumatologist asking me if I sweat on my feet when I had my first appointment with him so I'm thinking there could be a link. That's gone since starting my meds a year ago. Now I just sweat everywhere else but my feet. RA is strange to deal with 🤷‍♀️

[Mumcon]

Snap This is exactly what I get and I hate it!! I have a shower and feel I need another half an hour later It’s horrendous x

[Mumcon]

Meant to say my Vit D is really low and I’m on very high strength tablets for it It’s made no change as of yet

[Moemom]

Thank you all for your feedback. It helps to know that others have this problem also

[Barrister]

I get extremely bad sweats but I take hydrocortisone for Adrenal Insufficiency and I’m convinced it’s the steroids that cause it because I didn’t have sweats before I got AI although I already had PsA.

Clemmie

[Durrell]

Hi Mormon, I do feel for you I have had this going on for quite sometime, I found it unbearable at times, so I started taking cold showers daily, sometimes morning & night. I start with a warm shower to soap up etc, then i notch it down to cold, after the initial oh/arrr! You become climatized to it & I find it so refreshing & now I go straight from warm to cold & stay under for about 5mins, this has helped incredibly & it’s said to calm your nervous system, it’s worth a try, costs nothing & no drugs involved, I look forward to mine as it’s a daily habit now to start my day..