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Is overheating a diabetes thing?

Mozzy

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Type of diabetes
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Tablets (oral)
Hi. I have some weird temperature issues going on. I thought it might be an infection but not sure now. Almost every 3 or 4 hrs I start feeling mentally hazy. I start to feel like I'm hot. Usually starting from my stomach and radiating out. At first, I put a cold cloth on. Then, my forehead and the back of neck felt similar like a fever, but no sweat. In fact, I was sweating a lot last year, to the point the bed and pillow was wet every morning, but in recent months the sweating has stopped. It feels quite physically, mentally and emotionally, distressing. Now, I'm having absolutely cold showers three times a day for relief! I have no idea what's going on with my body at the moment, hormones? diabetes? anxiety? Any thoughts?
 
Actually I haven't been testing at those times. I assumed it might be a response to sleep apnea which I forgot to mention above. I will try it out and see what happens.
 
Mozzy said:
Actually I haven't been testing at those times. I assumed it might be a response to sleep apnea which I forgot to mention above. I will try it out and see what happens.
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It could be high blood sugars. It could be low blood sugars. It could be just about anything. It is wise to test though, just in case it is your blood sugars. The only time I get like that (and nowhere near as bad as you describe) is after coffee, which is why I stick to decaff.
 
Thank you. I appreciate the ideas. I have also reduced my caffeine too. It is nearing winter, but usually when others have the heater on or the doors closed on a "cold" day, I'm opening doors, taking shirts off haha. Parts of me actually feel in both extremes, very odd sensation.
 
I'm getting a lot of sweats, in bed and whilst walking. I've had my heart checked out and they've given me all clear. Just light furring.
I'm now also wondering what it can be.
Normally its far milder and in keeping with blurry vision (from blood sugars regulating themselves).
I'm wondering if my insulin is causing my sweats from regulating my high bgs, especially at the moment where my medication is being interferred with.
Is your medication working hard to keep your bgs in normal range?
Testing in times of sweating I'm boarding hypos. You?
 
Have you had your thyroid tested recently? I cannot remember sweating with underactive thyroid but chivers, coldness, too hot and lethargic, yes.
 
I sometimes overheat after a large meal but only if it's later on the day. I put that down to the BG spiking up a little higher. In general I feel the heat more than the cold, though, often perfectly warm whilst others are freezing. I don't know if that helps at all, just my experience. Oh, and I never used to be bothered by heat or overheating until I was around 18. I had been T1 for 10 years at that stage.
 
ickihun said:
Have you had your thyroid tested recently? I cannot remember sweating with underactive thyroid but chivers, coldness, too hot and lethargic, yes.
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I'm not sure. They did a full spread blood test in January, but I'm not sure if Thyroid is included in that. Years ago I had an unusual alternative treatment called "Quantum Electrosis" that showed I needed Iodine for the Thyroid, I was put on Kelp tablets, but couldn't handle the effect they had on me emotionally. I wouldn't be surprised if the issue is still present.
 
DavidGrahamJones said:
Your doctor is probably your best bet. You've tolerated these symptoms for a bit too long so you have to be clear what happened when and for how long, before seeing doctor.
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Yeah, thanks it's definitely not a problem with being clear, just not being heard. It's common for doctors to not listen to you when they have disagreed with your choices in the past. As far as I'm concerned, a doctor isn;t there to play God, they are there to inform and it's up to the patient to consider and make an informed decision. If my decision is not what they would decide, and they feel slighted because I didn't decide the way they wanted, I think the issue is really one of respecting the patient's right to choose. they don't have to choose the doctor's way every time, but they should at least give it some consideration. Therefore, having given consideration to what the doctor said, and noting that on previous occasions they didn't like it when I made a different choice to their suggestion, and that subsequent visits the doctor was listening less and less, I eventually decided to change practices. People know when those who are meant to care for them, stop caring about them. For the GP to take it personally, was very unprofessional and just silly. Why agree on everything all of the time? Nothing would change! No progress, no nothing lol
 
Kelp interfers with my thyroid function. It suppose to make overactive thyroid suffers worse. I've been advised to avoid kelp even though underactive. Levothyroxine is a more effective treatment. Although I had to adjust mine recently and I cried a lot too. Now on the right level I'm no longer over emotional.
Ps. I was losing weight on a little bit higher too but heart beat didn't like it
 
I went through surgical menopause 9 years ago (and it lasted around 5 years!) I thought I had finished with "all that" until I started to get my sugar under control and now I regularly wake up in the grip of a hot flush, totally covered in sweat. I'm just hoping it will settle down soon. The only good thing is that I don't tend to have them during the day, just at night.
 

Not to panic you, but I am 69 and went through the menopause (naturally) when I was 40, then HRT for a few years. Since the HRT stopped I have at least one hot flush most nights, even now. Never at any other time unless I drink coffee. It can't be female hormone deficiency in my case as it is so long ago, so why? No bloomin idea.
 
I get hot flashes when my blood glucose lowers... sadly not as much as I would like them to
 
@Mozzy I get very hot as an early hypo symptom.

But I second the suggestions to get your thyroid checked. When I had thyrotoxicosis some years back I had very frequent hot flushes (requiring changes of clothes several times a day) and unbelievable night sweats, along with other symptoms. I'm experiencing similar stuff at the moment actually as I am in the middle of an adjustment to my thyroid medication.

 
It's no consolation to either of us, but my MIL is 84 and an injecting T2, and she says she still gets the occasional night sweat...
 
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