Night sweats but cold room
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Every winter for the past few years I have suffered terrible night sweats.
Proper bed, duvet, pillow soaked and having to get up and change everything or just chuck some towels down if I'm too tired.
It's bloody wearisome to say the least.
I certainly don't think it's an illness as it doesn't happen at my girlfriend's whose tiny flat is so hot I push the duvet off even in mid winter.
These past years I have lived in an attic, well freezing during the winter and bloody hot during the summer and now a badly insulated 70s flat, same problem.
Duvet is not high Tog and everything I've read has talked about not having a warm room for decent sleep.
It's an enfurinating problem that makes me dread going to bed. Anyone else get this?
I'm late 50s, is it an old man thing?
Cheers.
Proper bed, duvet, pillow soaked and having to get up and change everything or just chuck some towels down if I'm too tired.
It's bloody wearisome to say the least.
I certainly don't think it's an illness as it doesn't happen at my girlfriend's whose tiny flat is so hot I push the duvet off even in mid winter.
These past years I have lived in an attic, well freezing during the winter and bloody hot during the summer and now a badly insulated 70s flat, same problem.
Duvet is not high Tog and everything I've read has talked about not having a warm room for decent sleep.
It's an enfurinating problem that makes me dread going to bed. Anyone else get this?
I'm late 50s, is it an old man thing?
Cheers.
I take medication due to a heart attack 12 years ago but these sweats only happen in winter and in cold rooms.
I've just wheeled an electric oil radiator into my bedroom to see it it happens tonight.
Obviously I'll switch it on
ETA
It doesn't happen when I stay at my girlfriend's. Then I just get hot and kick her mattress like duvet off.
Just odd as it only happens if in a cold room. I wonder if my old body is confused by having a warmish body but cold head.
Bloody annoying. I now hate being in England in the winter, it's bloody miserable and made worse by terrible sleep especially with these buckets of water chucked over me sweats.
I've just wheeled an electric oil radiator into my bedroom to see it it happens tonight.
Obviously I'll switch it on
ETA
It doesn't happen when I stay at my girlfriend's. Then I just get hot and kick her mattress like duvet off.
Just odd as it only happens if in a cold room. I wonder if my old body is confused by having a warmish body but cold head.
Bloody annoying. I now hate being in England in the winter, it's bloody miserable and made worse by terrible sleep especially with these buckets of water chucked over me sweats.
Edited by croyde on Monday 23 November 21:41
Condensation! 
Sounds a bit crazy but stay with me.
In Winter we have the woodburner on and upstairs can get really hot so my OH insists on opening the window. Go to bed and the room is cool/cold but while snuggled in my wool duvet I am warm/hot. The difference in temps seems to make me produce condensation (my OH calls this sweat) but it’s almost not like sweat just as though my skin is condensing. Stick a limb out of the duvet and this results in all the condensation freezing so I go back under the duvet, get too hot and repeat.
If I manage to close the window and just have the trickle vent open (sneakily while the OH isn’t watching) I have a much better sleep. Ok I might get a bit hot and stick a leg out of the bed but my skin doesn’t start producing condensation so it’s far more comfortable.
Sounds a bit crazy but stay with me.
In Winter we have the woodburner on and upstairs can get really hot so my OH insists on opening the window. Go to bed and the room is cool/cold but while snuggled in my wool duvet I am warm/hot. The difference in temps seems to make me produce condensation (my OH calls this sweat) but it’s almost not like sweat just as though my skin is condensing. Stick a limb out of the duvet and this results in all the condensation freezing so I go back under the duvet, get too hot and repeat.
If I manage to close the window and just have the trickle vent open (sneakily while the OH isn’t watching) I have a much better sleep. Ok I might get a bit hot and stick a leg out of the bed but my skin doesn’t start producing condensation so it’s far more comfortable.
My theory for you is that which I believe of my wife who suffers the same thing this last year or so:
If the room’s warm (not stifling hot btw) then you can happily peel the duvet on / off in your sleep quite well to regulate your temperature. If the room’s cold though, you feel frozen as soon as you try to cool a bit so eventually stop trying and just boil rather than risk hypothermia.
If the room’s warm (not stifling hot btw) then you can happily peel the duvet on / off in your sleep quite well to regulate your temperature. If the room’s cold though, you feel frozen as soon as you try to cool a bit so eventually stop trying and just boil rather than risk hypothermia.
I had this last November, for about a month. I’m 48 and also take heart meds (Aspirin, Bisoprolol, Atorvastatin and Losartan) which I’ve been on for three years.
The night sweats came from out of the blue, every night for about four weeks, then just stopped. No changes in lifestyle before or after. It was very strange, I suspected I might have been an early Covid-er, but an antibody test I did recently says no.
My Dad is 80 and is suffering similar, he is also taking Bisoprolol. Could be a common denominator? His GP is going to adjust dosage to see if that works. It is not however listed as a common side effect.
The night sweats came from out of the blue, every night for about four weeks, then just stopped. No changes in lifestyle before or after. It was very strange, I suspected I might have been an early Covid-er, but an antibody test I did recently says no.
My Dad is 80 and is suffering similar, he is also taking Bisoprolol. Could be a common denominator? His GP is going to adjust dosage to see if that works. It is not however listed as a common side effect.
I (male early 50s generally fit and healthy) used to get these to the point that I took a towel to bed with me to dry myself off at night.
Spoke to Dr, they did some tests and came back with; age related, some blokes get it, it’ll pass.
A few years on and it doesn’t happen any more so guess they were right.
Bloody annoying whilst it happened though.
Spoke to Dr, they did some tests and came back with; age related, some blokes get it, it’ll pass.
A few years on and it doesn’t happen any more so guess they were right.
Bloody annoying whilst it happened though.
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