does anyone have feeling of hotness keep coming over them? Like menopause hot flushes they went age's ago for me! Plus I keep getting bitten by midgies even more then normal for summer! Do they like pre do you???!!!!
feeling hot and biting bugs: does anyone have... - PMRGCAuk
feeling hot and biting bugs
I got hot flushes with untreated PMR and higher doses of pred. On lower doses I associate them with humid weather and concentration on tricky and infuriating tasks.
Hot flushes, thought they were long gone, it’s a yes from me without any form of activity they come over me for no reason..
Hot flushes are a common symptom of both PMR and GCA and can also be a side effect of pred. So it could be either or both!
If I start to get flushes while reducing it is usually a sign that I am getting to too low a dose and a flare is threatening.
Yes I get about 3 hot spells a day and usually one a night too. Side effect of the pred. I’m afraid. And I have noticed a lot more insect bites this year, but I’ve been on pred. for 6 years now so putting it down to the year/weather rather than the pred.
I don't seem to have been bitten much (so far) but bugs seem to flourish in hot humid countries so they have probably enjoyed this summer?
Hi, l’m suffering really badly with them at the moment as PMRpro writes below it’s either a sign my Pred Dose is too low and/or l’m heading for a flare……
I am lucky that I don’t get hot flushes and didn’t have them with the menopause
I had dreadful sweats when I first started pred. I looked as if I had just got out of the shower. It did get better when I reduced though.
I find that even a little bit of gardening has me dripping with sweat- particularly from my forehead. I too suffer from irritating itchy spots that look like midge bites, yet I can never find any of the little blighters. I use hydrocortisone cream 1% and they subside after a while. I put both symptoms down to reducing pred to 4mg, which is taking a lot of getting used to.
I haven’t been able to work out which sweats are weather related and which are my own “personal summers” as Whoopee Goldberg calls them, but I have had a very soggy summer and the insects are very persistent. Bites seem to last for days and be really itchy. I’ve spent a lot of this summer indoors.
Yes I have these hot spells, especially when I eat dinner at night, I'm always throwing off my sweatshirt or cardigan(it's winter over here) similar to hot flushes.