I have looked around the forum and cannot find any mention of this. I sweat to buggery (excuse my coarseness )every night even in a cool room and get very hot even during the day. My wife tells me I ooze. I am very clean in my habits and control my body temperature when awake but at night its astonishing how much I perspire. I wondered if anyone else had experience of this or am I just a sweaty guy?

I wouldn't mind knowing (see poll) if others suffer this as it is exhausting and unpleasant.

Regards

Ian

Blimey. I have the same problems, maybe not so often but i quite often wake up in the middle of the night in loads of pain and sweating like crazy and it quite often coincides with vomiting later on.

Quite often i feel like i have a fever.

Keep smiling

Ian H

Hi Ian, it cold be medication.  Are you on Prednisolone ?  That can cause night sweats, either that or you are menopausal !

Ive had night seats for years, has you all know im still not diagnosed 100% yet, but what i can tell you i had sweats without the medication and with so dont know what causes mine, ive had blood test for hormones there ok at the moment so its not that, last night i actually woke up at 3.00 and i was wet through thought id peed myself, has it was more my bottom half that was sweaty, just thought id tell you my story of the sweats not very nice at all.

xxxsuexxx

Hi Guys, I sweat alot at night too regardless of wether I am on medication or not. My Husband hates it because even when it is minus five outside I have to have the window open because I am so hot. I don't have a problem during the day. All tests have come back ok so I don't know what it is either.

Quoted from Linney

Hi Ian, it cold be medication.  Are you on Prednisolone ?  That can cause night sweats, either that or you are menopausal !

ho ho ho - great stuff

Hi guys

its not medication just a plague on my house so to speak. I often wake up drenched which is not pleasant at all. If I could put it down to alcohol or some other enjoyment then at least it would be a fair cop but I have no idea why?

Regards

Ian B

I had a short spell of sweating during the night, and had forgotten all about it until I read this post, now I wonder if it was to do with the drugs I was taking at the time!

I had a massive sweat attack during last flair.
First time.
Soakin!

Hi all.Yes its all part of medication sideffects iam afraid,these drugs have to find
away out of your body,either through the digestive system or sweat it out
through the sweat glands, a bit like garlic,lol.

Also not mentioned a lot on here,is swollen or runny eyes,which i get a lot
of,watery,itchy,redness,tired, are all part of the drugs making their way out.

Night sweats are the worst,especially like me you have panic attacks in the dark
aching limbs,numbness,pins and needles of fingers,toes.

not much going for us guys im afraid,lol

regards David

I have them all day and night.. I have to have a fan on and the window open at night cos I get so hot.. The aza makes my skin so sensitive to the sun and heat, that I break out in a heat rash and lumps if I get too hot as well so I have to have a fan on my desk at work too to try an help it

Nic x

I just sweat. Medication or no medication. It's not nice and it happens during the day as well as the nights. I have the strongest deoderant possible and it keeps it just at bay during the day thank the Lord, else I would be very sweaty in deed. It's not nice at night either, especially a single young lady wanting company. Try explaining that one?! Buut what can you do? Just one of lifes quirks I suppose!!

I sweat prefusely during the night, my fiance says i'm like a radiator, but she likes it because she feels the cold. I'm only on Pentesa Granules, but I sweat regardless of room temperture and have to wash my pillows on a regular basis as they start to smell.

Hi Ian,

I have been daignosed with Crohn's disease for approx 15yrs.
I suffer from night sweats all the time.
At first I thought it was menopause, but I now I am way past that, had full menopause at about age 48-49, now 53 yrs of age.
Night sweats are recognised as a part/symptom of Crohn's Disease.

They are so bad, that I often have to change my clothing twice during the nite.
We are in winter now in Australia. I wear a singlet top and cotton shorts to bed, have to throw off the duvet, while my husband has electric blanket, duvet and blanket on top.
Really hate it, feel really smelly and dirty, change the bedlinen every couple of days.
Sorry, this is no help to you.
Regards, Robyne (Ozzie, Ozzie, Ozzie)

I am so glad to have found this.  I came online to see if having hot sweats all the time was anything to do with Crohn's, or if I was having a very early menopause!!  I need to sleep in a very cold bedroom as I become a furnace whenever I fall asleep.  4.5 tog duvet in the height of winter!  And I have major hot flushes a couple of times a day as well.  Playing havoc with my hair!!!!!  I've not long started on Pentasa, so am hoping this will improve as I get better?????  Was happening way before I started taking medication.

Hi everyone, I too am glad I've seen this. I've been thinking for ages I must be menopausal and I'm only 44 but I dont sweat at night just during the day. I wonder if it's the same as you guys? . I do itch a lot at night, not just my dry patches but everywhere, does anyone else do this?
All the best x

Hi,

when i had my last flare up - i used to wake up in the night with hot sweats and my back would be wet - i also used to itch on the back of my hands.

Daz

Yeah, me too. Doesn't wake me, but when I get up in the morning I'm bathed in sweat. It seems to have got worse since I started on meds in April. I'm on Pred, Mesren and Azathioprine.

Hi all,  I've been told it is one of the symptoms of Crohn's.  I get them night and day but it seems to be worse at night.  I was also told that having a fever is a sign of flare up to......

Hi I have only been diagnosed for 2 weeks but I also suffer with night sweats I dont have the problem in the day only when I go to bed. Im also finding it hard to get used to as it is not nice, my partner doesnt mind and is very supportive. Will just take some getting used to I guess. I am due to see my consultant on 02/11 so I will mention it then x

Hi
Yeah I can get quite bad night sweats at times but i think its a mixture of a flare up and the meds im on at the time.  Find it worse when im on any opiate type pain killer.  I also get itching especially my tummy and very recently peeling skin on my feet and hands???  which thankfully has stopped now.

Fiona x

Hi. I always have sweated at night as I can remember. Sometimes more or less.  diagnosed in 1992 with illieum area chrons. It has worked for me as to not have big meals before bed, leaving at least 2.30 hrs to 3 hours before laying down. Or small/light meal at least half hour before laying down. Avoid fryups... dairy......beef....nonorganic food....gluteen free..... etc .... idont take any medication as I refuse to eventhuogh been told so. Feel better this way. I have minimal side effects this way...... only chrons related which is more reconconisable in symtoms.....  

very interested to read all these comments about sweats. i am a crohns sufferer of 20 yrs and have been having the most dreadful night and day sweats . they are worse at night and for the past 4 days i have had chronic diarrhoea and tummy ache and cant eat much. i keep getting told i have this tummy bug but am now a bit worried ,, i am 51 but put these sweats down to menopause . can anyone advise me as to whether i am having a flare up

Hi Jules,

I would say possibility but get your self down the G.P's and have some bloods done see if the inflammation markers are up, ESR, CRP, FBC and LFT (just copied it from my blood forms).  

Hope this helps

Katherine x

thanks katherine, saw my consultant last monday so waiting for blood results .. had the doc out last night but he didnt seem to concerned even though i had lots of tummy pain.. am feeling very weak and washed out but all i get told is theres a winter tummy bug about xx

jules xx

Hi Jules,

Sorry to hear you had to call out the Doctor but to be honest I don't hold much faith in them as for day to day ailments yes I lost faith in them when they tried to prescribe Naproxin (painkiller) my Father takes it as he suffers with Chronic Rheumatoid Arthritis and it clearly states in the little information leaflet that Crohn's suffer's should not take this medication as it will effect there condition.  So I speak to my Pharmacist alot and he's my saving grace...  Good luck with the results....

Also see how your B12 levels are to (hopefully they have included that in the bloods) if not I was told that Mymite is natural in B12 well you either love it or hate it lol......

Katherine x  

hi katherine,, well im glad im not the only one with no faith in doctors but my partner insisted lol   was a complete waste of time and it seems to be settling now although i still dont have an appetite. havent heard about bloods so maybe all was ok. they are always borderline as i had a right hemicolectomy so i suffer with malabsorbtion. we all have a tough old time with these illnesses dont we but i have to say i am lucky to be alive and again that isnt owed thanks to any doctors just my own knowledge of my bodys workings,, thanks for your help  


jules x