Overheating at night

[GeishaGirl]

I'm noticing more and more that I'm overheating at night. Like when I wake up, my skin will be excessively warm -- not sweaty, but fever-warm. My pillow is too warm to sleep on comfortably! It's not lows -- believe me, I've woken myself up completely to test and been reallllly annoyed that I did so for a 92 (or similar number!).

Don't get me wrong, I'll sleep through the night most nights, but the warmth when I wake up is ridiculous. It really does feel like I have a fever... but every night?

[dbaratta]

I'm noticing more and more that I'm overheating at night. Like when I wake up, my skin will be excessively warm -- not sweaty, but fever-warm. My pillow is too warm to sleep on comfortably! It's not lows -- believe me, I've woken myself up completely to test and been reallllly annoyed that I did so for a 92 (or similar number!).

Don't get me wrong, I'll sleep through the night most nights, but the warmth when I wake up is ridiculous. It really does feel like I have a fever... but every night?

Menopause? Pre Menopause? Don't get mad if you are not of age LOL. Some people go thru it early. Also hormone flux will do that.

[retired60]

This happens to me also..........don't think it is menopause lol!
I'm sure that this started happening when I started taking Lantus. Not lows as I check also.

[davef]

I have always "run warm" when I sleep. Even if I doze off in an armchair I will start to expel heat. This happened before I was DX'ed, just normal for me.

Perhaps we are just hot stuff ;)

[jer.lawrence]

Yeah ditto. My wife sleeps wearing sweats, covered up with a sheet and a comforter because I have to keep the room cool, ceiling fan on, and sleep totally uncovered.

I don't think it's D related, I've always been like that.

[foxl]

Thyroid? Sometimes if your thyroid is going you get hot flashes ... or just get hot!

[DannyK]

This is something I can relate to also. I sleep with my bedroom door closed, have a 4' tall stand fan at the foot of my bed, and have a window unit AC 5' away from the side of my bed set at 60. Yet EVERY morning (without fail), I am awake within 15 minutes (either side) of 3 am, burning up. I have always been warm at night, as I need to have a body pillow to hug to separate my legs, but since dx., it seems to get worse. :confused:

[GeishaGirl]

This is something I can relate to also. I sleep with my bedroom door closed, have a 4' tall stand fan at the foot of my bed, and have a window unit AC 5' away from the side of my bed set at 60. Yet EVERY morning (without fail), I am awake within 15 minutes (either side) of 3 am, burning up. I have always been warm at night, as I need to have a body pillow to hug to separate my legs, but since dx., it seems to get worse. :confused:

This. It's November in NY and I'm still sleeping with the fan in the window. I love having nice, heavy covers on me, but I wind up throwing them off within a few hours of falling asleep. This never happened to me before D.

It might be hormones. I'm nowhere near pre-meno (am 28 :)) but I'm due for a visit from the Blood Fairy within the next week -- maybe I should start monitoring it as a PMS symptom (along with extra hypos and major fat/salt munchy cravings).

[foxl]

This. It's November in NY and I'm still sleeping with the fan in the window. I love having nice, heavy covers on me, but I wind up throwing them off within a few hours of falling asleep. This never happened to me before D.

It might be hormones. I'm nowhere near pre-meno (am 28 :)) but I'm due for a visit from the Blood Fairy within the next week -- maybe I should start monitoring it as a PMS symptom (along with extra hypos and major fat/salt munchy cravings).

Coudl it be due to you being on Yaz??? Just noticed in your signature.

[Penny]

This happens to me almost every night, just worse some nights than others. I go to bed cold, wake up so hot I am almost sick. I almost always test low, but do not eat, experience shows me I will wake up high later. I do sit in front of the fan and get a big drink of water, usually go back to sleep. I assumed it was because I was on the verge of a "liver dump", because of the (almost always) high fasting.

[RobinP]

Yeah ditto. My wife sleeps wearing sweats, covered up with a sheet and a comforter because I have to keep the room cool, ceiling fan on, and sleep totally uncovered.

I don't think it's D related, I've always been like that.

Sounds like my hubby and I, only it's me who's always hot and he's freezing. I cracked our window last night and it was in the low 40's. lol

[Granny Shanny]

Same here, Robin. Mine's using the electric blanket awreddy, while I throw open the windows & throw off all bedclothes but the sheet! I need air moving, and I simply cannot sleep when it's too warm . . . and I've been like this since childhood!

[andypoo]

I'm another one that needs fresh air piped in or a fan moving air around,otherwise I feel stifled. All night long cold...,cover up, wake up hot..... throw the covers off,this is all night. I had an early menopause at 27, right after I had my daughter, that lasted a long time, so it is possible about the menopause thing.

[GeishaGirl]

I'm another one that needs fresh air piped in or a fan moving air around,otherwise I feel stifled. All night long cold...,cover up, wake up hot..... throw the covers off,this is all night. I had an early menopause at 27, right after I had my daughter, that lasted a long time, so it is possible about the menopause thing.

Argh! I have 20 of the 34 symptoms of menopause, including the top 3. And as I trace some of the symptoms back, they go back 6-12 months, but no further. And one risk factor for premature menopause is autoimmune disease :P

*sighs* Guess I'll go make a gyno appointment....

(Well, this would solve my "I don't want kids, but feel too young for tube tying" problem!)

[plattb1]

I think they can do simple blood tests to tell you where you are vis a vis premature menopause. It should not be intrusive.

[andypoo]

Argh! I have 20 of the 34 symptoms of menopause, including the top 3. And as I trace some of the symptoms back, they go back 6-12 months, but no further. And one risk factor for premature menopause is autoimmune disease :P

*sighs* Guess I'll go make a gyno appointment....

(Well, this would solve my "I don't want kids, but feel too young for tube tying" problem!)

Back when this happened to me,the doctor gave me a hormone injection,which made my period start again,but he said I could either continue with injections or not have periods, which he said a lot of women would not htink that was so bad,so thats what I did(without injections) through the years I have had about 5 periods and now,they have completely ceased,as of about 20 years ago. I've been fine with that.