Is anyone on here dealing with fibromyalgia and night sweats or hot flashes? how do you deal?
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Members dealing with fibromyalgia and night sweats shared a range of strategies, including using fans, cooling gel pillows, keeping dry... Read more
No lie...I started keeping a towel by the bed and sometimes put a folded sheet under me in the bed. When I'd go out, I'd sweat so bad strangers would ask if I was OK, like they thought I was ready to keel over. I think it was really the pain meds and not the fibro. When I stopped the opiates, the worst of the sweating ceased. So sorry...I feel for you.
I have read that fibro affects the thermal regulatory center in our brains so that we do not regulate temperature correctly...meaning we are hot at inappropriate times and cold at other times...for me I may be freezing one minute and sweating the next. Best advice is to layer when you dress and always carry a sweater or light jacket...be prepared to be both hot and cold as you never know.
This is now I got so sick, not putting the heater on at night. Worse cold ever..
i wake up sweaty and the bed feels like i wet the bed and no covers.
I have dry night shirts close at hand I also have a fan on at night which helps immensely, hugs to you I know what you are going through