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For some yet to be identified reason, I always experience a significant increase in sweating during & after abx use. This has happened throughout my adult life during short stints of abx given to me for things like strep, wisdom teeth extraction or orthopedic surgeries. After 3 or 4 days, I experience a significant increase in daytime sweating... particularly from my underarms. This continues for a short while after cessation of the abx. I noticed it each time in the past, but didn't pay it much mind since I returned to normal after a week or two. This happens with just about every type of antibiotic I've used.
Fast fwd to present day. I am paying it a lot of attention now because it's been going on for months given the prolonged duration of my lyme abx regimens. Month after month of needing to change my undershirts several times each day has me thinking... why on earth does this happen?
I never have night sweats, I never have chills... if anything I feel revved up while it is going on. -Is it possible that my body amps up my sweating to facilitate detox of the abx itself and/or the junk they kill?
-Another thought I had was that being on abx knocks back lyme or something else enough to allow my body to react more heavily to some co-infection or parasite... thus opening my pathway for daytime underarm sweating?
-Or perhaps it's something as simple as abx having an up-regulating impact on my thyroid or other metabolic systems?
The sweating itself is very to similar to what happens to me if I drink coffee. It is most notable when I am focused on something or engaged in other benign activities. If I am sitting on the couch watching tv with nothing else going on, I am not sweating. But the moment I start to do something, I can feel the drops start to form and run down my sides.
I sweated like this naturally without any abx throughout my teenage years and early 20's, but it faded to a more normal pattern by my mid-20's.
Am I a freak or is there some sort of explanation that makes sense here?
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GretaM
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J77-not sure why this happens, but it happens to me also. I was the same in my teens and early 20's also. Always sweaty.
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