Hi everyone. Does anyone else have the problem of being so hot at night that you need a fan and only a sheet to sleep while your husband is freezing to death? I don't ever break out in a sweat, nor do I actually run a fever, isn't that strange?Not really. Heh everyone's core body temp is slightly different, and than can mean all the difference in the world when it comes to sleeping. Women tend to be warmer than men anyway, or colder, depending on the season. Also, I don't know how old you are, and I don't want to offend, but are you old enough to be at the start-up of menopause? Otherwise, I really do feel like people with certain diseases have body temp issues. I've had my share of live-in b/fs and I've always been the one with the A/C CRANKED in the summer, and the heater BLASTING in the winter. However....my current (and final, btw lol) b/f also has an immune disorder (crohn's) he TOO is cranking the A/C in the summer and upping the heater in the winter. It works out very well for us. I do wonder if it has anything to do with the illness.
Hi there:
My body has always runner hotter than my hubby and my family. Your story sounds very similar to mine. Very hot at night - although I do have the sweats also. I know a lot has to do with my meds, but a lot is just me. My daughter also runs warm with a fever, etc. My poor husband is always frozen out of the house.
I do find that my problems are worse since my hysterectomy - but as I said, I've always had the hot issue. You are not alone!
Hi DeborahP
I don't know if you're on prednisone but it can cause hot flashes. I'm 51 and finished with menopause and, I thought, hot flashes too. Then I started on pred and I'm hot
Well you guys do know that everyone's core temp is raised during any kind of rest, specifically during sleep, right? I forget the reason but that, I'm sure, has some play into all of this. Maybe you're more able to control your temp when you're awake, but once you're asleep, your body naturally warms, and then the meds just make it warm up even more. Just a hunch.
I can also relate to the hot nights! Way back almost 3 years ago when things were just starting....I started to have like "hot flashes" and mentioned it to my GYN- she mentioned perimedapause and so I blew it off. It lasted 4-5 weeks and then seemed to disappear. Once the RA took off and I started more meds, I noticed some of the hot nights coming back, but not always consistently. And when I woke up in the middle of the night, my pj's were soaked and so was my hair. It felt like I had ran a fever and didn't realize it until I woke up. So I did some googling on RA and found that when you first have the "sweats" it is normally from the "onset of RA" and when a flare starts up. It's your body's nature to sweat/run fever to fight off --the attack of anything abnormal----RA. That's what our immune system is supposed to do. Unfortunatly, because of all the reading I did, I don't know where I read it--on which site. But it did seem to put me at ease knowing possibly why the hot nights. I guess it could be a variation of meds, the disease, and depending on our age--medapause(I am now 40).I had hot flashes constantly at night while on pred. Thought I was going through a second menopause!
Susan
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