Hi all
Just wondering if we know what causes night sweats? I've recently started having them in my upper body. It only seems to be my chest and neck that are wet when it wakes me in the night. Again, only I'm think the early part of my nights sleep.
If its not one thing its the other......!
Si
Do you find that you sweat at any other time of the day as well? You might want to check this out.
momsaware.org/symptoms-of-m...
Jane x
No it's only been at night for say the last week. Had it once or twice in the past but its been pretty consistent for the last week.....
Oh don't tell me i have this as wel!!! Lol funny how all the symptoms overlap into other illnesses isn't it .....
Hopefully not, but we have only just discovered this year (after over 20 years of searching!) that this is what has been behind my daughter's thyroid dysfunction.
Maybe in your case it's just the warmer weather which is a bit of a shock to the system, isn't it!! Hopefully it will go away again. Jane x
How far did you go into it Jane?
It just ends up being a case of going from one illness to the other. I have recently had a comprehensive stool test and it came back with some yeast infection and a couple of parasites. Just wondering if its diet off from that? Or something todo with that.....
Si
We had a very expensive trip to California, but we were DESPERATE!.....and it finally gave us the answers. Now we just have to work at sorting it out. This book was a great help - "On Hope and Healing" by Dr. Neil Nathan.
I've written a bit about it here:
thyroiduk.healthunlocked.co...
and here:
thyroiduk.healthunlocked.co...
We hoped that the answer would be straightforward too, but unfortunately as with so many with thyroid dysfunction it is very complicated. However, at least we now have something to work with and feel very confident.
Jane x
Hi Sporty
I had bad night sweats for a long time after menopause so it couldn't be put down to that. First I put it down to having had major surgery but it carried on so I asked the forum and got a lot of good answers
thyroiduk.healthunlocked.co...
Roslinxx
I gave up sugar almost two years ago but have had the odd lapse, I have noticed I wake up hot in the night and have more difficulty sleeping which I have connected to any sugar in my system. I thought I could get away with some organic honey in my yoghurt, eaten in the evening, but sadly no as the above symptoms appeared. 99% of the time I cook from scratch but there are odd occasions I have eaten a take away, bearing in mind most food products contain sugar and I have had a bad night afterwards.
Sugar upsets the adrenals and has a detrimental effect on our system in so many ways and don't forget some fruit, drinks and alcohol are also high in sugar.
I mention this as perhaps you could have a think if there is any connection with your own disturbed sleep.
Hope this helps.
i had severe night sweats for about 1.5 years. As you describe, i would wake up drenched - like some one had tipped a bucket over me. As per usual, NHS fobbed me off and said it was menopause. I saw a fertility specialist who said i was anything but menopausal.
Once i came off levo and got onto an appropriate dose on ndt, the sweats disappeared
Trouble is I'm on ndt already! Lol
Before I was diagnosed (Graves) I used to waken up absolutely dripping with sweat and like you it was always the upper part of my body. Even if i woke up. Ok i used to start to sweat anyway which was strange. I'm on levo with Carbimazole now and the sweats have pretty much stopped. If i sweat it is because I am too hot. Think I need more levo though because I take two hotties to bed with me because I get so cold I get terrible cramps in my legs. Last night I did without the hotties but wore my hiking socks instead. So glam eh! 
Liz
Thanks for the reply Liz.
So what do you think the cause of the night sweats are then? And what are hotties?!?!? Lol I think I have a different interpretation of what a hottie is! Lol
Simon
LOL - a hottie is a hot water bottle. I know the sort of hottie you mean too I think my night sweats were because my thyroid was hyperactive and that makes you feel hot. I was the one who was always in a t shirt and opening windows and doors while everyone around me was frozen. At the moment my thyroid is underactive so I'm the one turning the heating on everywhere I go and people are still complaining - just can't win can you Mind you, poor husband - what options he has - wife in bed with two hot water bottles, wife in bed wearing hiking socks or wife who leaps out of bed several times a night because she has cramp.
Liz
They suffer for us don't they Liz :0)
I read recently that these sweats can be a sign of adrenal fatigue/insufficiency
Oh so my adrenal fatigue could be returning then? :0/ i thought they had stabilised recently. I'm not feeling any worse so thats a god sign. It is 'funny' i always wake around the 4am mark though.....
I had them quite badly on and off before starting levo and now they are gone, yet I am not optimally treated and/or I have adrenal problems. So I suppose it could be adrenals, the only other things I can tell you are my TSH wasnt mega high before starting and my T4 WAS mega low. I have no idea if any of that makes a difference.
Gail x
So the consensus is adrenals or not enough thyroid support i guess. I had a dry night last night so thats good :0)
I've so much going on its hard to tell whats causing them!! Lol
Hi Sporty I had bad night sweats just on my chest and neck regularly and it was this main symptom that got me tested and diagnosed under active. They improved once I got my levo dose up but I do still get them about once a week and have to keep a towel by the bed. I'm not menopausal yet and have been having the night sweats for about six years now. Bloody cold during the day though. Would love to know why too!
no idea why but I can relate to this, I just get very hot especially my legs not really sweating just burning hot
But why only at night? More precisely, I seem to sweat around the same time, early every morning around 4 or 5 am. They only last for a brief time, maybe a couple of minutes. I am taking 100mg of Levo a day as well as heart medicines and the sweating started after the heart medicines (nearly 2 yrs ago). Mentioned it to my gp and he, well ignored it.
I have no idea why at night my friend. Perhaps adrenal related I guess. I only get slight sweats nowadays. Lol......funny how gps ignore a lot of things hey....
Me too but it's not recent it's been going on for a long while
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