feeling hot and biting bugs

[Caulkhead63]

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???!!!!

[Seacat30]

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.

[PMRRMP in reply to Seacat30]

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..

[Seacat30 in reply to PMRRMP]

Mine used to happen a lot at tea time. That was when my pred started wearing off. Again at about 4am when the inflammatory chemicals are meant to be generated in the body.

[PMRpro Ambassador]

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.

[scrambledegg]

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.

[Seacat30]

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?

[MrsNails]

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……

[Koalajane]

I am lucky that I don’t get hot flushes and didn’t have them with the menopause

[piglette]

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.

[HalleysComet]

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.

[Caulkhead63 in reply to HalleysComet]

I don't see any of the bugs either! And keep getting bitten in the same place! Will try the cream you did

[Zebedee44]

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.

[Kiwisufferer2019]

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.