Night Sweats/Chills (Anyone? Bueller?)

I've had something weird happen to me twice this week and I'm not sure what's going on. 

I sleep under a duvet and because it's a little thick (but not down or anything like that), I turn down the thermostat when I go to bed (20C/68F).  Normally, this makes me very comfortable.  But twice in the last few nights, I wake up drenched in sweat and freezing (like almost to the point where my teeth are chattering).  I'm not sick and my eating this week has been good (yesterday I got 1069 calories and 99g of protein).  I am menopausal and had a total hysterectomy in 2009, so I get hot flashes, but not to this degree and I'm never cold at the same time.

Any ideas what this might be or how I can prevent it?

Could be low blood sugar.  Eating a protein snack right before bed usually prevents that for me.

Even with a 99g protein total for the day?  I'd thought I'd done okay with that.  But I'm game to try a bedtime snack if that's going to help.  Thanks.

But getting that much protein during the day doesn't keep your blood sugar stable at night.  You probably don't need more protein, just spread it around differently.  Try getting some of it close ot bedtime.

Night sweats are extremely common in menopause.  You get sweaty, get wet from the sweat and then, once the sweating passes, you get chilled because you are wet. Classic night sweats.

There isnt really anything you can do about it short of anything else you would do for other menopause symptoms like the hot flashes, I'm afraid.  For me, the night sweats (and hot flashes) come and go... Won't have any for a couple of months, then will have a bunch f them for a week or whatever.

Lora

Not so classic, I'm afraid.  I've had hot flashes and night sweats for the last four years one and off and this is like a typical episode x 100.  That's why I thought it might be tied to the weight loss.  But maybe not.

I get this too and being this far out, have definitely put it down to menopausal night sweats as opposed to RNY ...    Ah, the joys of reaching a "certain age"!

Some of mine are very mild, and occasionally I get a spurt where they are terrible, and create enough sweat that I have to change my clothes AND the sheets in the middle of the night.  Sometimes the intense night sweats occur at he same time as hot flash recurrence, other times not. It is still a very classic pattern.

With so many of my friends who have NOT had any kind of WLS experiencing the same thing, and all the information I have read on menopause symptoms and potential ways to deal with it that are not hormones, my personal opinion is that it is completely unrelated.  

More for others than for you... Not everything is RNY related.  (Sorry, there have been lots of "is this because of my RNY?" posts, or people assuming that every little thing is somehow RNY related, the last couple of months.  Again, not you, just in general.

Lora

For what it's worth, I'm 35 and male and one night this week I experienced the same thing.  I woke up soaked but otherwise felt fine.  Unless a real pattern develops I would just blame the storm.  :)

If your night sweats are off pattern for you and you are soaking through your clothes you should go see your PCP, he can run labs to see if you have anything unusual going on.  People on OH can only share their experience or a guess but it could be completely unrelated to either menopause or WLS.  Are your lymph nodes in your neck, underarms, swollen?  Really it could be so many things and should be evaluated by a professional.