Sweating at night

[Dimes]

I've been doing a lot of this in the last 1-2 weeks. My bed sheets have just been soaked.. Otherwise I feel ok when I wake up. I have had a cold bug for the last 3 weeks as well. Does anyone else do this, is it a sign of low blood sugar, or something else?

[Scratch]

I've been doing a lot of this in the last 1-2 weeks. My bed sheets have just been soaked.. Otherwise I feel ok when I wake up. I have had a cold bug for the last 3 weeks as well. Does anyone else do this, is it a sign of low blood sugar, or something else?
I've had nighttime lows where I've woken up sweating and the sheets soaked.

But considering how you say you've been sick, I'd tend to think that you're likely running a bit of a fever and you're overheating some overnight. And if you've been ill this long, it might be time to see the doctor, especially if your mucous discharge is discolored.

[Subby]

Hi Chris. Sounds pretty likely to be the cold to me.

As for low blood sugar, what are your BG levels doing? What are they in the morning? Have you checked them at night?

That's about the only way to find out. BG fluctuations can do all sorts of things to different people. I'd associate sweating only with highs, myself. Sure, I can get clammy with a dramatic low - but then again it would either wake me up or send me very high in the morning and I would know something was up with my BG immediately.

[Dimes]

Last night i was 8.2 before I went to bed, which was 3 hrs after a meal and with still a bit of live insulin in the system. I woke up at 8.8, so I was wondering if I went a little low and the liver kicked in. I've been eating later this week because of work, so I'm not sure what my levels are exactly when I go to bed.. Thanks for the responses guys

[sable_032592]

i get extremely sweaty with my lows, but at the levels you're speaking of, sounds like you're sweating out the bug... if possible, the next time you get sweaty at night, try to test right away, if you do wake up during the night and not after the sweating episode...

[GeishaGirl]

Not sure about it being the bug -- I get night sweats almost every night. Sometimtes I wake up so drenched (pardon me here) that the sweat literally pools between my breasts. I don't go low at night either -- I have NO idea what is causing this.

[lorilei]

me too, but it comes in episodes...every 6 weeks so not related directly to being a female...i change my shirts and sometimes everything else right down to my socks

[EeyoreButterfly]

I'm glad that somebody posted this! This has been happening to me a lot lately. Today I laid down to take a nap. It is actually fairly cold in my bedroom. I woke up just soaked in sweat. This is a very recent thing andI hvae no clue what is causing it

[sable_032592]

gee, i was told it was because i was pre-menopausal... at 32..., but i've been sweating like this for over 8 years, so that would mean i've been pre-meno since i was 24??? makes no sense, so maybe it's a diabetes thing that no doctor has found out why we get it... heck, right now, i have a towel underneath my bra and armpits... it gets really bad sometimes, and embarrasing when i'm shopping...

i thought it was normal, now that i see others have the same thing, i'm not so sure... maybe we should write down what we're doing when it happens, or what we were doing or eating when it happens... the night sweats, i dunno, i get them too, but thought it was normal then too...

gee this is weird... :confused:

[Riannon]

I get sweaty when I'm super low or drop really fast, but it might be a good idea to bring up with your endocrinologists if you guys see them. Mine actually has "excessive sweating / heat intolerance" as one of the check boxes on his form for new symptoms since the last visit.

Even if it's not directly diabetes-related, the diabetes does impact on just about everything else, so better to play it safe. (IMHO, of course! LOL)

[genie86333]

I find if I'm cold when I go to bed (and I get cold easily in the evening) that I'll wake up a few hours later, drenched in sweat & have to turn the fan on (even though it's still the same temp in the room!)

Maybe I'm pre-menopausal (I'm 36 & that's the age my mom went into menopause, and this just started about a year and yalf ago. Although, strangely, it's more that I get cold-flashes than hot ones - I get cold really easily, sometimes having goosebumps when it's 80 degrees, especially in the evening. And it's after one of these "cold-flashes" that I wake up sweating, even if I haven't piled on extra blankets.