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[Mern]

Ok, so there are quite a few topics here abouting sweat/temperature control etc but none of them really seem to hit my nail on the head...
During the day I'm normally ok, maybe a bit sweaty here and there but generally only when I need the loo. But the I go to bed and I'm just a sweaty Betty. I wear a night bag so it can't be my bladder. I go to bed fine butr then get slowly worse and wake up drenched so the sheets need changing every night plus it makers it that bit harder to get up on cold mornings fo college.

This has been happening since the last few months I was in hospital and I'm just confused as to why this only happens at night. I have some bad toe nails which are being looked at and treated, but again, why would they only affect me at night?

I sleep through the night on my side with my legs out straight with pillows under them to keep the heels off.

gotta love SCI eh?

[tyvin]

One thing that comes to mind is TB. Night sweats are a characteristic symptom that will occur as a red flag. Of course TB is absolutely curable these days. If I were you; go get a check up and have the doc do a test for TB. A complete lab work up for other possible reasons should be done as well (hormones etc...) IMO.

There are other ways to get tested for TB like going to your state's public health nurses where depending on their schedule do TB test for free or a small fee (least wise where I am they do).

[Edinburgh Colin]

Hi Mern,

Ever been bothered with Kidney Stones?

I have had problems and they manifest themselves as Mild AD attacks, increase in spasm activity, sweating at night but mostly only my head and upper shoulders (manly above injury).

Constipation may also cause a similar response, have you changed diet/drugs/routine etc?

Mich be worth asking your GP about a KUB x-ray or an ultrasound scan

Good Luck because if it is AD attacks during the noght while you are asleep it can be quite dangerous.

[catmint]

Hi Mern

My husband is C5/6 and his routine is every day, sometimes if it hasn't worked so well that morning then he will have a slight 'sheen' round about the early hours. But to be as wet as you describe he would have to be really bunged up. So for that reason and also cos' you say it starts when you go to bed I don't think it's that.

I think Colin's suggestion of kidney stones could be right. My husband has had stones over the years and the last one he had caused similar symtoms to yours. We would get to bed and it was almost as though he had started to leak. but only above his level. It was so bad even the pillows were soaked. He also started to get raelly strong stomach spasms during the night.

I would get on to the unit and tell them what is happening and get an appointment.

Please don't leave it. I know it's a going to the spinal unit. Like you we live some way from Stoke but it is something that should be checked out.

Best wishes to you.

[Halfman]

I get the same thing - a bit of sweat during the day but nothing to worry about and then wake up at night totally drenched above my level. My Spinal Unit said it was quite common in SCI and not to worry about it... Helpful advice!

[Mern]

Thanks guys, all helpful stuff

I'm heading up to the unit next week anyways so I'll speak to my consultant if he's around. Maybe he can shed some light.

[LeahC]

Your heating doesn't come on in the middle of the night per chance? I go to bed freezing, put all my blankets on and wake up at 4am sweating my tits off!

[Edinburgh Colin]

 LeahC, on 24 January 2011 - 06:49 PM, said:

Your heating doesn't come on in the middle of the night per chance? I go to bed freezing, put all my blankets on and wake up at 4am sweating my tits off!

Now Lea there's a dream I really shouldn't have!! oops

[Mern]

hahaha heating?? whats that?? my parents are too stingy for such a thing I joke...

I actually have a fireplace in my room. would be lush if I could use it!

[xxm]

Mern,

In my 35 years with SCI I've found that the most severe sweating is due to UTI.
I've also had sweating due to abdominal discomfort mainly from intestinal gas.
I've found that when I change my sleeping position sweating can be less or dissapear.
When I sweat I lie on my side with bend legs as much as posible and sweating is relieved.
For me it is impossible to sleep on my back with straight legs - sweating is unbearable.

It is important to check you blood pressure in bed while sweating .I found that in many cases it is too high.
If examination can not find anything ask your doctors to prescribe TERAZOSIN especially if BP is high.

In the first years after SCI sweating is more likely untill your body addapts to SCI.

Rudy

[sehoughta]

I just figured out what was causing my night sweats! I would get in bed and start out fine but would wake up or not sleep every night because I'd be drenched regardless of the temperature! I put a towel under my head and shoulders and I had to keep flipping it. I had to be turned once or twice a night, which did help at times, but often only temporarily. Recently I noticed I needed my feet moved a lot while I was up. If I didn’t they’d twitch and I’d get clammy. Now I just use a really soft pillow under my feet/ankles and don’t sweat all night!!! I hope that might help. Good luck!

[wheelzoffortune]

 xxm, on 25 January 2011 - 06:05 PM, said:

In the first years after SCI sweating is more likely untill your body addapts to SCI.

Really? I was injured at 6 months and am 29 now. I didn't start sweating at night until I was about 26 or 27. I've had a kidney stone since 16, too, but again...didn't start sweating at night until a couple of years ago.

[kiwiquad]

Hi Mern...I was your age when I broke, & was classed as a "sweater"!! from day one. I just presumed it was part & parcel of being a high break quad. The meds I was taking for bladder spasm, (Ditropan/Oxybutynin) greatly reduced the amount of sweat that drenched me from my break up, every night. After advising the doc, that this pill mixed with cannabis, worked !00%, he prescibed it for that purpose also. I still sweat & take 5mg of Oxybutynin even 28yrs down the track, but only for short stints, (a week) & it goes away. I've just accepted to live approx 3-4 months in the year, leaking salty water.

[Edinburgh Colin]

 Mern, on 24 January 2011 - 05:24 PM, said:

Thanks guys, all helpful stuff

I'm heading up to the unit next week anyways so I'll speak to my consultant if he's around. Maybe he can shed some light.

How did you get on. any revelations? Are things better?

[Solidus]

Hi,
I sweat mainly below my injury, and only on the right hand side. It starts mainly under my nipple, but also my back sweats mainly from my right kidney area. Also, crotch, legs. It drives me nuts as it's like wearing a wet t-shirt all day and I can get very cold because of it. I feel I could almost have a normal life without the sweats. I'm interested Kiwiquad, have you ever been prescribed the oxybutaline patch - i think it is slow release?

[Simon C5-C6]

Hey there i am C5-C6 quad,i get night sweats right when i lay down and goes all night,when i get up and get in my chair they stop just like that.Any one have this happen to them,been hurt for 13 year's and its been going on for the last two.Its not UTI get them lot and thats sweats in and out of bed,this is just when i lay down to sleep any one the same?

[Chococat]

I only started this sweating in bed business since i started on Vesicare about half a year ago. i'm on 5mg a day. one of the side effects listed on their website is increase in body temperature. tbh i've not bothered mentioning to the consultant as the med is controlling my spasms quite well atm....fingers crossed.

Simon...i'm like you, as soon as i am out of bed i'm ok too.

[Zack]

Is your Mattress to Firm for your bodies liking?

Every time I sleep somewhere other then on my nice soft Tempur Pedic Mattress I Break out in Sweats from my body telling me it doesn't like the Firmer Mattress!

Good Luck

Edited by Zack, 26 December 2011 - 04:23 PM.