I was wondering are night sweats just sweats or cold/clammy or heat related..........I am treating for babesia right now and one of my symptoms is getting really overheated leading to sweats......is that the babs night sweats????......
[ 02-11-2010, 07:00 AM: Message edited by: Florence1 ]
Posted by Sammi (Member # 110) on :
When I get night sweats from Babesiosis, I usally first get very hot and then I get chills.
I also get overheated much easier overall than I would if I did not have Babesiosis.
Posted by Florence1 (Member # 22960) on :
thanks Sammy.....
Posted by Sammi (Member # 110) on :
Good luck with your treatment!
Posted by Shosty (Member # 12232) on :
Are you in peri-menopause?
Posted by sixgoofykids (Member # 11141) on :
My gyno told me I was having hormonal hot flashes/night sweats. Babesia treatment made them go away. I would be more drenched in a night sweat than 30 min in a sauna.
Posted by Florence1 (Member # 22960) on :
but were you HOT with them.......I almost feel like i have prickly heat...hot....my husband also mentioned that he can feel the heat coming off me in bed........
Posted by groovy2 (Member # 6304) on :
Hi Florence1 --
Check your body temp several times threw the day-
With babs you will have a Low temp from 92F to 97F --
My temp was almost always 93F and I could feel both Hot and Cold just minutes apart --
Most people with Babs will sweat Much worse at night--
Many peoples symptoms start at the same time each night--
About 2AM is a common time -- Jay --
Posted by merrygirl (Member # 12041) on :
I dont think babs causes low temperature, I actually think it is shown to cause fever.
I could be wrong though.
my night sweats i am usually asleep but wake up freezing and dripping wet, LIke change your clothes and bedsheets at least once wet.
I do get hot before when I notice.
Posted by sixgoofykids (Member # 11141) on :
Yes, I would get very hot with them.
Posted by Dawn in VA (Member # 9693) on :
I got chills and sweats, chills and sweats. Changes in my body temp were so various. When I felt hot, my temp would be hot OR cold and vice-versa. So weird.
Posted by Florence1 (Member # 22960) on :
thanks all for the info....
Posted by Hoosiers51 (Member # 15759) on :
I am pretty sure I'm feeling hot before the sweats start. I can vaguely remember fanning myself sometimes.
Sometimes I don't wake up during the night, and by the time I've woken up (sometimes much later in the day), the sweat has already dried, and all I'm left with is a bed that smells nasty.
And when you leave the bedroom and walk back in, you can tell that the whole bedroom reeks like someone was.....sweating in bed!
Sorry for the "too much info"!
But other times I have actually woken up drenched. That's how I know what the smells coming from my bed were...it was a musty odor from the bed getting wet at night.
And some nights I can remember waking up in the middle of the night and my shirt is drenched, but then when I would wake up later that day (like around 11 or noon which is normal for me), my shirt would be dry, but I would remember it being wet during the night.
So the point is sometimes it's hard to know how much you were sweating or if you were at all.
I think in the beginning of my illness (which was sudden onset and I slept constantly like I had mono), I missed the night sweats because I slept so much and so deeply. But everyone would always complain about how much my room smelled. Now it makes sense.
Posted by MariaA (Member # 9128) on :
quote:Originally posted by Dawn in VA: I got chills and sweats, chills and sweats. Changes in my body temp were so various. When I felt hot, my temp would be hot OR cold and vice-versa. So weird.
I was just having a babesia relapse and I was checking my temperature with a fertility thermometer all day long, and in the morning when I woke up- I had the same exact experience about the chills- having the chills could mean my temp was low, or it could mean that I was having a 2 degree fever (and I know how to use my thermometer accurately, check all readings 3-4 times, don't drink or eat anything or exert myself beforehand, know about the slightly varied temperatures in a menstrual cycle, etc, so this was definitely a pretty accurate observation).
I didn't get a chance to check on the night sweats because I didn't get ones so bad that they woke me up this time around. Sometimes I'd wake up feeling like I'd been overheated just before waking- and when I took temperature it was 'normal' for me. I'm not sure if it means anything for what was happening during night sweats or not. I'm guessing the sweats would cool me off?
Posted by Shosty (Member # 12232) on :
If you are in your late 40's or early 50's, this is very likely to be peri-menopause/menopause.
For a couple of years while I was going through that, I would wake up sopping wet. It happened all day, too, but it was only in a nightgown and under covers that I would be that drenched.
It got better without any treatment, although you could try bioidentical hormones, or even just bioidentical progesterone (google John Lee on this).
I chose not to though, suffered awhile, and then it went away.
I am a Lyme patient, but prefer to think of other causes besides TBD first, because I am trying to minimize harmful medications.
Posted by Florence1 (Member # 22960) on :
I am 37 and had my hormones checked to see if I was early menopause before I got the lyme diagnosis last year because of some of my symptoms...but everything was fine and that was ruled out so I do think its lyme and Co related.......
Posted by nefferdun (Member # 20157) on :
I am wondering if my hot flashes are babesia related. I wake up three times a night burning up and have to throw off the covers and sometimes even remove my clothes. It comes at the same times and I always wake up right before. I have had sweating a few times but I am not a person that ever sweats - not even while exercising in the summer. With this I am even very hot or very cold.
Posted by Hoosiers51 (Member # 15759) on :
neffer--sounds like it could be babs, though it isn't definitely babs.
On some occasions more recently, I do wake up right before I start sweating, and sometimes I can remember tossing around, feeling really hot and fanning myself.
Posted by lyn8 (Member # 24356) on :
My daughter is 13yrs we just found out she has lymes and she is sweating a lot at night and even during school, this all started with the rest of her lymes symptoms. At first I thought she was having hot flashes...but at 13???? Must be lymes.
Posted by Sammi (Member # 110) on :
lyn8, I am sorry your daughter has Lyme.
Has she been tested for all the co-infections ticks can tranmsit? Excessive sweating can be a symptom of the co-infection Babesiosis (which is similar to malaria).
Many people who have Lyme also have co-infections.
Posted by tick battler (Member # 21113) on :
Hi lyn8 - The sweating in your daughter is most likely from babesia rather than Lyme disease (without the "s"). Many people who have Lyme disease are infected with other things such as babesia and bartonella.
Is your daughter on treatment for babesia as well as Lyme? It is important to treat the babesia or she will not get well! You need to use separate meds, as the Lyme meds will not treat the babesia.
Mepron paired with zithromax is a combination most start with to treat babesia. The Zithromax also treats the Lyme, so you will be covering both bases. Is your daughter seeing an LLMD? This is very important, as most doctors are completely clueless about Lyme disease.
Hope this helps,
tickbattler
Posted by Amanda (Member # 14107) on :
It depends on when you wake up...
sometimes I would wake up, dreancehd in sweat and cold.
sometimes I would wake up so hot, my ears, feet, every single part of my body felt HOT...then I would burst out into sweats.
Before I would wake up, I would have very vivid dreams being Pele, the volcano godess, sitting at teh base of a volcano, or inhaling a man with red hair who was glowing with a kind of fire radiance.
actually, that last dream was pretty nice, he was very attractive!
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Many people who have Lyme disease are infected with other things such as babesia and bartonella.