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Type one and sweats

Tylers73

Tylers73

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Type of diabetes
Type 1
Treatment type
Insulin
Why do I keep getting extreme night sweats absolutely pouring off me. As being 42 and a girl could put it down to hormones, but what about my mate who is also type one and male !!!!!!
 
Hey Tylers, that doesn't sound very nice. How are your BG readings ? As you can probably guess I am not medically trained but if you aren't going through an early menopause and are keeping good BG through the night, or are drinking alcohol excessively, then it's worth a trip to your GP to get this checked out, they should be able to point you in the right direction ;)
 
Hi there tylers73, I have experienced the exact same thing. I would set my alarm the next night to check my bs levels which were fine. The consultant at the hospital thought the night sweats were down to hypos but I felt it was more hormones. So tested for menopause but results were normal. We never got to the bottom of it. I had about 2 years of these night sweats and would wake up soaked, like someone had thrown a bucket of water on me. I haven't had one for a long time now. You're probably thinking, this isn't very helpful, which I agree it isn't but I wanted you to know you're not alone. Hopefully, your night sweats will stop like mine have.
 
hey tylers-- my wife gets them all the time - and she isn't D or young :)
(could not reveal age as I would get a kicking) but we can safely say she is retired :)

we only have a 4.5 tog duvet in the winter ( i have about 3 extra blankets though )
 
I had that for about 2 weeks,my blood sugars were ok but i was waking up soaking wet.Constantly changing my bedding and keeping spare pyjamas by the bed.Id recently been prescribed statins and was taking them at bedtime but one night i forgot to take it,woke up nice and dry.Stopped taking them after that and havent had a problem since.
 
At the end of the day could be anything. As I said could be hormones I'm 42 and not yet got menopause so strange yes but my friend he male and 51 having the same sweats really bad. Bed is soaked I can feel it tricking down me which wakes me up cause I think something is crawling on me
 
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