It's really bad, it will keep me up. It's not drenching, it's weird, it feels like a gummy glistening mist that radiates heat. It's always on my face, the back of my neck, and anywhere a blanket is on me. If I have a blanket on (I have a hard time getting cozy without one), anywhere the blanket is touching, I feel so much heat radiating from that spot and it gets sweaty.
Why do I sweat when I lay down? It's not just "night sweats", if I lay all of the way down when I don't feel good, even if it's not for a nap, I start sweating.
It's gotten worse since i.v. tx.
Posted by METALLlC BLUE (Member # 6628) on :
Those are the typical night sweats so common to this infection and other tick-born infections. Babesia is notorious for causing it.
I have the exact same thing. I even close my eyes for a moment and begin to drift and I sweat. If I'm conscious, I don't sweat. Something is seriously ****ed up.
Posted by Nessa1815 (Member # 15697) on :
Night sweats always freak me out. I think that they mean something bad. I just tried to take a nap while my son was and I laid there for 2 hours drifting in and out of sleep with heat radiating from my body and sweating. Dr. didn't mention or test me for Babs, but did think that I had Bart.
I kinda would like to rule out everything but whatever.
This started after I began treatment. I can recall a few sweaty nights before, but this is all of the time now. Is it because I'm killing the bugs and that's why I'm sweating? Or did a co-infection come to the surface? Next visit, I will ask him.
Since starting the tx, I realized that I'm much more hot blooded and the a/c is always jacked way up and even with it jacked up, I'm always asking people, "Isn't it hot in here?" I do sweat more in general since tx.
I wish all of this made more sense.
Posted by jam338 (Member # 14002) on :
I have the night sweats too, except they happen day and night for me. Its really bad. I have Lyme and Babesia Duncani.
I realize now that this is what was happening to me 8 years ago. Not a clue I had lyme, and my obgyn misdiagnosed this as early menopause and threw enough Premarin at it to stop the sweats. After 7 years of that, it resulted in laboratorily determined severe estrogen dominance. A condition which causes some of the same damn symptoms of FM/CFS. Ya just gotta shake your head at medicine and wonder wtf.
All along I had lyme and now compounded complications caused by being throttled with Premarin for years.
Posted by Brussels (Member # 13480) on :
It looks much like babesia to me. You got to nap because of fatigue, it's when face flushes and hot flushes flare (very typical symptom for me).
Every time I collapsed during the day because of these cycles of babesia reproduction (or whatever they might be), my body temperature increased.
Malaria is similar, right? People collapse no matter when (day or night or both) and sweat profusely.
But who knows it could also be bartonella?? My crises were babesial.
Selma
Posted by kylasrain (Member # 12031) on :
I tested neg. for Babs and pos. for bart and have nightsweats that come and go in monthly stages. I read bart doesn't cause nightsweats, so perhaps my test was a false-neg?
I woke up this morning soaked actually! Haha!
We're all sweating this out together,
Kyla
Posted by tdtid (Member # 10276) on :
I have to jump on the bandwagon as well and say that I too use to get those so badly. Would have to keep changing the sheets I would drench them so badly.
It got much better with babesia treatment. In my case that was mepron, zith and art. If your doctor hasn't considered babesiosis, do bring up the topic.
Seems to be a pretty solid symptom to that one.
Cathy
Posted by Peck (Member # 14526) on :
Interesting, I sweat an awful lot when I sleep. I hadn't made the connection really. I'm also finding that when I'm awake the right side of my head/neck sweats a ton and the left doesn't.
Strange.
Posted by seekhelp (Member # 15067) on :
I too crash sometimes in the day and have hot flashes accompanied by fatigue onset. With my initial symptoms, I believe Babesia is what did me in. I'm hoping my LLMD will treat it more aggrssively at my next appointment.
I must say the symptoms have gotten a bit better with Zithro, but I wonder if the neck tightness and jaw tightness could be Babesia, not Lyme.
It seems tricky. I feel like I sweat exceeively on poor days which may be another indicator.
Posted by janet thomas (Member # 7122) on :
Could be that Bart is surfacing now that Lyme is somewhat controlled.