profuse sweating at night

Can't offer any advice, but here is the nhs website offering information on night-sweats (Hyperhidrosis):

http://www.nhs.uk/conditions/Hyperhidro ... ction.aspx

Nigel

I have had hyperhidrosis since before I was diagnosed but maybe I had diabetes already without knowing it but don't think its anything to do with diabetes though. I don't sweat under my feet or palms of my hands. I don't sweat during the very coldest part of the winter but when spring comes it starts again - both day and night intermittently. Its very embarrassing in the summer when my forehead beads with sweat and my forearms are wet.

I saw my Doctor who prescribed homeopathic medicine which did nothing. Now I am taking sage tablets which aren't doing anything either. Has anyone found anything else which helps them? Don't want to have Botox injections every 6 months and they are only for small areas anyway.

Have read the article posted by Noblehead and in the comments section someone mentions Robinal. I am going to try and buy some to see if that works. Has anyone tried it?

Many people face the problem of excessive sweating at night, which may lead to damp and moist bed. The problem may disturb the sleep and may cause disorders. A person facing this problem may feel excessively hot or cold while sleeping. There are various causes to this problem of excessive sweating at night, which is sometimes referred to as sleep hyperhidrosis. The problem may be caused due to the consumption of alcohol, coffee or spicy food, before bedtime. It can also be caused during menopause. A person suffering from this problem must consult a doctor. Diabetes is another cause to this problem.

I've suffered froom this in the past. Seems to be linked (at least inmyself) to poor BG control. Drinking LOTS of water during the day, and avoiding carbs has helped me.

I still sleep with the covers OFF, though. Even in the dead of winter.

It could be some kind of neuropathy and I suggest you go and get checked out.

For several years I suffered with extreme head, neck and shoulder sweating about 2 to 3 hrs from going to bed which would wake me up.... I even used to sleep with folded towels on my pillows.
I put up with for a long time until in desperation I decided to corner my GP about it. After several appointments and getting nowhere, I was referred up hill and down dale but only one consultant pointed the finger to an autonomic disorder and since I have been injecting Victoza and established much tighter BG control, the sweating has become less of a problem; although I am not completely clear.
I was told very little could be done, but Victoza proved otherwise.

I have night sweats, but mine are due to menopause. Plus we have a memory foam mattress which can be rather warm

In my case the sweating is not caused by badly controlled blood sugars as my control is good
and my last HbA1c was 5.2 . I am also only slightly overweight. And its not menopause either.

I get sweats too. They don't always last for very long but i get pretty clammy at the time.

I suspect that they may well be a detox thing. The body does all it's cleaning and clearing at night.

A lot of the food, and drink we consume now is very toxic - very processed, high-carb, high-sugar, and often highly chemicalised too. We can't keep throwing the stuff down our gullets and be surprised when we get problems sooner or later. There is only so much that the body can take.

The skin is the largest organ in the body. A lot of crud is expelled through the skin during the cleansing process although we may not realise it.

By far the best thing is to clean up the diet and remove sugar, keep the carbs to a minimum and avoid anything processed like the plague!

Sweating is common thing found in any person and It is very important for to control body temperature. But in other side excessive sweating is not good for your health.

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Use to get this when I was a teen, but probably for other reasons !

Sorry for being a bit flippant but I found the subject here a tad provocative for a cheeky answer !

I'm sure it's a big problem for some, I do remember that in my 40's / 50's that I sweated at night, but I had been overdoing it workwise and socialising, mostly the booze .

I liked the comments by AliB, sensible rationality to a complex situation.

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'"By far the best thing is to clean up the diet and remove sugar, keep the carbs to a minimum and avoid anything processed like the plague!"

-Crikey... I wish hot sweats were just down to poor food choice and cleaning up the diet!!!
Most days I have less than 1/4 of chicken breast with cabbage, leeks, swede, carrots, brocolli and parsnips.. And say last night 1 pear...and a yogurt.
Yest aftnoon made builders a hot snack lunch of home made cornish pasties.. I had less than half of one.
Hardly a party feast of bad processed and sugar /salt processed foods.

I think my overload must be coffee...did go to mcdonalds to warm up and have a regular cappucino... Perhaps that was the really bad overload for me!!!

Nightsweats and sleeping with not on ir covers whilst partners tucked under nice thick duvets arent nice at all.. Or being so bad that the sheets have to be changed nightly before going back to sleep. Many people will sweat profusely when hypo at night, and this will pour off them.. Think of that every single night.. But absolutely level bloods in the 5-7's.

Oh how I wish it was down to poor food choice.

Yesterday I ate 4 Jacobs Savoury crackers @2.5g carbs each with cream cheese for breakfast. For morning snack I had one small banana and tiny tangerine. For lunch I had lettuce, tomato, cucumber with 2 slices of tongue for lunch and 2 more crackers. As a snack in the car on the way home I ate a 2oz block of cheese. For dinner I had broccolli and green beans with an Aberdeen Angus beefburger. During the day I drank 1 cup of ginger and lemon tea, 2 cups of diet tonic water and in the evening I had 1 small cup of decaff coffee with cream.

That's more or less my normal day's intake, sometimes I don't have coffee at all, I don't eat bread, potatoes, rice or pasta with anything so whatever carbs I eat I get from veggies and fruit.

Before dinner at 6pm my BS was 6.8 and although I wasn't actually feeling hungry, for me, 6.8 is fairly low for me and I start feeling jittery around the 6s because I'm not used to being that low.

I was really tired last night because I'm now back at work for the first time since diagnosis, so I was in bed by 10pm, asleep probably by 10.15pm. Woke 4 hours later at 2.10am for the loo. It seems to me that my bladder can't cope for longer than 4 hours and I think that's what wakes me up because I woke again 4 hours later at 6am. Or perhaps it's a liver dump?

I don't know - all I know is ... I would love to have unbroken sleep at night.

Me too.. One night of solid sleep seems a long, long time ago..
Sweats and night trsting or cgm eeps when I used it has put pay to a normal night solid sleep.

I pity type 1 parents.. I know one who gets up at least twice a night to test her child. She too rarrly gets a good solud night of sleep either.. Plus she by herself so hasnt got a partner to take half of night testing for her child with D.

I had the same sweats at night at the same time as having very irregular bs readings and high hba1c. After eliminating everything else I was sure that it is because I was going hypo during the night. My diabetic doctor at ARI sugggested this some time ago but and eventually he tied it up with a problem with injection sites.

After 32 years of type 1 I calculate some 35,000 injections and my Dr said that my usual sites were worn out. Started new sites and MUCH better control and no more night sweats.

Cheers R

It might be that your sugars are dropping too much during the night. If you've had diabetes for long then the warning signs that normally wake you with hypos don't work any more. Often, if your sugar does drop without waking you, your liver will produce sugar to keep you going. Ironically it can cause high sugars on waking.


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I'm in my early 30's and have started experiencing night sweats. Didn't even think it could be diabetes related.


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I'm a T2 so I don't think injections sites can be the cause of my night sweats, I've only been testing since August and now only test about twice a day, occasionally three times.

My BS was 6.5 this morning - last night I slept from 10pm to 11.30am with only one loo break at God knows what time, because I think I sleep walked to the loo, I just about remember getting up and going back to bed and zonking out again. But I was sweating profusely when I woke up for the loo break.

My guess is that just as peeing is the way our body rids itself of toxins, sweating is yet another way it attempts to rid itself of toxins too. The skin is an organ and whether my skin has decided to join my kidneys to rid me of excess sugar I don't know. But either way, my BS is usually in 7s or lower on waking. I'm just wondering if the body thinks we're not going to wake up to go pee, does it signal to the skin to take over the job of toxin removal as my sweating does seem to coincide with me waking for a loo break.

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