Since being treated, I run hot, and sweat easily. It's a huge problem of living. I wonder why it happens and if any of you have found interventions. This is NOT night sweats. I have been treated for coinfections.
The scientific explanation to me was that my hypothalamus was probably infected and/or damaged, interfering with body temp regulation. Another was that since my temp runs low, the body overcompensates, and works harder to heat up.
A third explanation I have heard is that is it just the infection.
The aryuvedic view is I have too much "pitta", "fire element" and so I am supposed to be always cooling, eating cool foods, etc.
So far, going slow, staying cool has been all that has worked.
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Hi Jeff , I'm a sweater too .I als find tyhat the only thing that helps is to stay cool (environment )A.C. cool showers etc. Don't understand the expl. you got that your body is trying to heat up as sweating is a mechanism for cooling not heating , but what do I know !
Glad you don't get the nite sweats ! I do and they are a joy .Wake up and it's like I just worked out . Maybe there is a bright side to this as sweating is a way of detox. !! Posts: 97 | From West Chester ,Pa. | Registered: Aug 2006
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im being treated for lyme w/abx. And I am also having this unusual problem with being HOT; Not THAT much sweating; but sometimes i do. No nightsweats.
I am hoping that it is a herx. I wasn't THIS sensitive to the heat before i started the abx...(fingers crossed)..
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first year or so that I was on antibiotics my poor husband walked around with sweatsuits on in the summertime and long johns in the winter....inside my house! Yes, I was hot. I have returned to "normal" temperature this year.
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Long before I was diagnosed with the chronic lyme, I developed hot body. I told one doctor, "I'm hot all the time and occasionally have a cold flash". At the time, I wrote it off to early menopause.
One day I was sitting on my horse and a friend who is a top trainer was working with me. He was on the ground looking up at me and I was sweating so bad, he had to step back to avoid the drops of sweat. I offered him an umbrella.
When I started treatment for lyme in Aug 05, (homeopathically) the sweats stopped and I became soooo cold. Even so, I liked being cold better than being hot. The hot was so bad I truly believed in self-combustion and worried it might happen to me.
My body temperature evened out and for 1 yr, I was great. Then I was bit on 5/12/07 of this year and dang if the sweats aren't coming back. This time babesia has tested positive and I guess they are causing the sweats. It is not as bad as before and I am on abx for it, so hopefully it will not be as bad.
Miserable.
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The only difference is that I don't sweat because I usually can't sweat but I do feel like I'm burning up from the inside out if I don't stay on anti-fibrin supplements.
Tutu is right. I have had the same experience only not using heparin but using other things to clear out the fibrinogin. Bromelain - 2400 mg gdu 3 per day and serraflazyme. I also take digestive enzymes between meals.
When my liver enzymes were messed up I started getting big bruises due to clotting problems so went off most of the bromelain and recently started to have the burning up feeling again so I'm back on bromelain, serraflazyme and digestive enzymes again.
Babs treatment seems to help. Now that my liver enzymes are down I'm back to treating babs. Hopefully that will take care of the problem.
Good luck.
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You might want to get tested for malaria. I can literally soak a shirt within minutes, and my malaria came back equivocal - and I've never been outside of the US.
Keep in mind that there are strains of malaria that can only be killed with a primaquine/chloroquine combo.
I'm not sure - but this could be why I remain ill - and sweating.
Just because the CDC tells us malaria is a disease of the past, doesn't make it so.
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Lymetoo, what enzymes are you taking?
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the hot thing with no sweating bugged me for years.
I've been on herbals . . . and garlic seems to make it worse for me (it is a warming herb as some stimulating herbs are) . . .
I've switched off allicin for a while (for other reasons) to coptis, houttuynia, artemisinin - all are cooling herbs but also on the lyme/babesia protocol I'm on. I've noticed I've been very cool lately.
you mentioned aryuvedic view so if you have a doctor you consult for herbs, perhaps in addition to treating the reason for the heat, you might ask if cooling herbs would help and still achieve the results you need overall.
Chinese herbs meant to clear toxins are ususally cooling. I think Olive Leaf extract and forsythia are also cooling.
www.itmonline.org might help for research articles on herbal properties. Great site for education.
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my temp regulation system is all out of what. i am unusually hot 90% of time...it also makes me a little disoriented at times. I cant stand it.
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