Not a pleasant subject, but wondering if others have this problem much more at times of stress?
I have had a bereavement in the past fortnight and have a lot of admin to do as well as the usual stress in this situation. I find I am having sweats almost every night at the moment (used to just be sporadic, not nearly so often). They started to be this frequent at the time of the bereavement, so I think it's almost certainly related, but thought I'd seek your opinions. This has nothing to do with menopause by the way.
Thank you.
I have night sweats when I am in a flare. Stress like you are going through can certainly cause a flare.
Liz D.
When under stress, only my forehead will be dripping with sweat. Very annoying and ruins my hair.
Thank you for your replies, Liz and Jenny.
I don't feel I'm in a flare in the way some people here describe it, I don't have lots of extra symptoms, just this darned sweating at night. I think it must be the stress. ::)
It very well could be stress, however, if it doesn't go away in what you consider a reasonable length of time you may want to rule out an infection of some kind. There are many infections that one can have that is not related to a flu or colds, etc. Also , there are other health issues that have night sweats as one of there primary symptoms. Just a thought. You know your body so just have to wait and see I would think. Good luck. meirish
Thank you very much Irish, I appreciate your point that night sweats can also be a sign of possibly more serious problems. I will see how things go, but as I mentioned, apart from this I don't seem to have any other extra symptoms (just the dozen or so usual ones :) ).