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Hi, I've been off abx for a while, just doing herbs, vitamins, taking a muscle relaxant and an antiinflammatory for lower back and right hip pain, and an Ambinen to sleep
where do these sweats come from? right now i'm sitting at my desk and i don't feel extraordinarily warm, but i'm dripping...when this all started i had these sweats at night but after eight years other than the back pain this is the most aggravating symptom and they happen during the day, not at night
i start to sweat profusely just walking, at the gym i'm sopping in 5 minutes, and it takes an hour to dry after shower....
i'm wondering if it's one of the herbs or vitamins i take that causes this - or if there is something i could take ....
Thanks. Dan
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Which muscle relaxer are you taking? I would check the side effects of some of your meds to see if that might be the casue of your sweats.
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i'm taking cyblobenzaprine and diclofenac but guess what? i stopped taking both of them Saturday...i'm trying to see if i really need them....the back pain is pretty insistent when it wants even if i take them every night, so if i have to take a pain med and an ibuprofen when the pain is bad, why bother with the cyclo and dico? we'll see how this week goes...
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I had a similar problem. Since I was bit I would just pour sweat. It would start at my forehead then back of my neck, then chest and it would look like a sprinkler system had gone off from inside me.
After three years it has diminished. I still have problems, but nothing like before.
I never figured out what the source was. It was said to Babesia at first...
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I am otherwise "well" - i did years of abx, and Zhang and diet and herbs and vitamins and PT and accupuncture etc
- really the only thing still bothering me is the lower right back and right hip pain - i do have stenosis and my sis the nurse practitioner says I have "degenerative disc disease" after looking at my ct scans
but there are days where the pain is not that handicapping and other days when oh my...
i don't have cognitive problems anymore and i do have energy - it's mostly this pain and the sweating out of nowhere and the sleep (ambien has been a life saver)
i had an initial bump from cymbalta but this pain is back and with a vengeance the past few days, so i'm thinking i'm gonna drop the cymbalta
and rely on the pain meds alone
tonight will be the 3d night in a row without the cyclo or the diclo and i'm stopping everything but the ambien and cymbalta this week to see if these sweats go away thanks
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I too have terrible sweats. I can just start sweating sitting and visiting with someone. I can have them in the middle of the night, early in the morning. They are awful. I have been told it is Babesia.
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Cymbalta, along with a lot of other meds, and esp in combo with certain other meds, can cause Serotonin Syndrome, which can cause a lot of sweating. It can cause lots of other symptoms,
too, but it can start with the sweating. Certain muscle relaxants along with the Cymbalta can cause it, too. (Lots of meds can cause it, actually, and esp in combo).
Call your dr about this pronto. It can be life-threatening, although it doesn't sound like you are at that point. But it can sneak up on you in a hurry. Treat it as an emergency, which it is,
if I am right, which I probably am. Believe me, you DO NOT want this to escalate! Drs are way too ignorant about this in general, unfortunately. Your pharmacist may be a big help here, too.
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I'm glad to report that now that I'm off all drugs and vitamins and supps and herbs that the sweating has eased - just normal now - although i haven't been going to the gym and worked up a sweat....BUT the lower right back and hip pain is much worse....Tramadol doesn't seem to be working either....i think the sweating was associated with the cymbalta maybe in combo with the cyclobenzaprine and or the diclofenac....what to do with this pain?
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Dan,
Have you done any parasite cleansing? Parasites can invade the CNS as well as all other organs and tissues. They also can cause excruciating pain.
I was on morphine until I got rid of parasites. I also had extensive nerve and disc damage, but the pain is gone since getting rid of the parasites. Just a thought for you.
Gael
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After treating babs 18 months, sweats still came back for me. I was told it was hormones, etc.
I finally decided to try Malarone for a few days...instant relief. So, it is definitely babs for me.
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