I've started sweating profusely in my sleep, and about the same time, started getting regular waves of anxiety

Question

I wake to a human shaped sweat patch on my mattress, and i wake freezing cold often through the night.

Answer 1

Hot flashes! It happens when you get older. Or you have the flu or some other kind of bug.

Answer 2

Get a full physical especially blood / lab work up. Could be several conditions. If you then get a clean bill of health, look at your emotional health. Are you experiencing more or new stressors in your life? Try relaxation techniques ie soothing music in the back ground while you sleep. Follow up with some counselling if you do get a clean bill of heath to help with the anxiety maybe that will help with the night sweats.
Drink lots of water since you are loosing fluids through the sweat. Make the appoint asap to see your MD.

Answer 3

Hyperhidrosis is a medical condition in which a person sweats excessively and unpredictably. People with hyperhidrosis may sweat even when the temperature is cool or when they are at rest. Sweating helps the body stay cool. In most cases, it is perfectly natural. People sweat more in warm temperatures, when they exercise, or in response to situations that make them nervous, angry, embarrassed, or afraid.
Excessive sweating occurs without such triggers. Persons with hyperhidrosis appear to have overactive sweat glands. The uncontrollable sweating can lead to significant discomfort, both physical and emotional. When excessive sweating affects the hands, feet, and armpits, it is called primary or focal hyperhidrosis. In most cases, no cause can be found. It seems to run in families.
If the sweating occurs as a result of another medical condition, it is called secondary hyperhidrosis. The sweating may be all over the body or it may be in one area.


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Answer 4

First and foremost, do you exercise and eat a healthy diet? Secondly, it could be sleep apnea. It causes such a trickle affect. I'd go to the doctor and let them know what's going on.

You might even have a cold.

The anxiety comes from lack of sleep and stress. So I'd say probably a sleep issue.

I used to suffer from sweating, toss and turning, and anxiety and a simple sleep test showed I had sleep apneat (where you stop breathing) and they gave me a device I sleep with granted it looks like a darth vator device, but it works.

Just head to your doctor.

Answer 5

I think the two go hand in hand, if it keeps up you really must go and see a Doctor. I've experienced it and now I take an anti anxiety drug, and I also had counseling, and she taught me self talk. I still get anxious occasionally but I'm 90 percent better than I used to be. It's worth getting it checked out.

Answer 6

Women experience a variety of symptoms of menopause, but the hot flash is the one most discussed. During menopause the body produces less estrogen and progesterone. As a result, the thermostat in our brain, the hypothalamus, gets mixed signals: is it hot or cold? It is as if it cannot decide between these states. This oscillation causes our blood vessels to expand and contract on an irregular and unpredictable basis. With an increased blood flow in the body, a feeling of heat and a flush starts on the face, the neck, and continues to the chest. Some women perspire, others really sweat! Sometimes a chill follows a hot flash. You'd be cold, too, if you were hot and soaking wet in the middle of winter, and suddenly someone turned off the heat. Depending on the intensity of the hot flash, some women may get headaches, feel weak, dizzy, tired or lose sleep. Some may experience palpitations, skipped or erratic heartbeats. Remember to be sure to check with your health care practiioner before attributing any of the above symptoms to menopause. Hot flashes can be the sign of illness or medical disorders.

Some women report that they knew they were about to have the experience before it happened. An aura, or premonition, may feel like nausea, or a tingling or pressing sensation in the head. Some women become weak in the knees, dizzy and have to sit down. Others experience heart palpitations before or as the flash begins and while it's occurring.

The upper body, from the chest to the scalp, may begin to sweat profusely. You may also "flush," that is, become red as you flash. Heart rate and skin blood flow increase, although internal body temperature may drop by as much as three or four degrees as the body struggles to correct the imbalance. After the flash, the body quickly becomes chilled as it struggles to regain its normal temperature. Most flashes last about three to six minutes, although it's possible to have one that goes on as long as an hour.

Hot flashes are sudden waves of heat that can start in the waist or chest and work their way to the neck and face and sometimes over the rest of the body. The upper body, from the chest to the scalp may begin to sweat profusely. You may also "flush," that is, become red as you flash.

Heart rate and skin blood flow increase, although internal body temperature may drop by as much as three or four degrees as the body struggles to correct the imbalance. After the flash, the body quickly becomes chilled as it struggles to regain its normal temperature.

Answer 7

This situation indicates that you sleep on a bed placed upon the radiation of an underground watersteam. This resonance, oposed to the one of the human body, prevents your body to charge energetically during the night, and this is is shown through these symptoms. Moreover, this radiation always gives the sensation of cold. Sleep somewhere else and watch the changes in your mood. If you want to, I can help from the distance.

Answer 8

You maybe experiencing hotflashes or your blood sugars may be fluctuating throughout the night. If you eat heavily before bedtime, your blood sugar maybe spiking and then dropping off as you sleep. This can cause profuse sweating.

Answer 9

I didn't start *really* co-sleeping with my son until he was 10 months old. We tried bassinet & crib, but then, when he'd wake in the night, I'd take him out to the couch to nurse him and we'd both fall asleep. It was *not* comfortable sleeping sitting up on the couch. And, I'd wake up next when he was just about to wake, too - ready for his next nursing. I tried setting alarms for myself with a little kitchen timer, but the startle of that would wake both of us. Or, I would try to get him to bed & wake him on the way, so sit by him in his room, falling asleep standing there or in the chair beside his bed. I just wasn't getting any sleep with him in a crib or bassinet. Then, we tried an inflatable mattress on the floor of my bedroom (since we had a waterbed & I knew that I didn't want him on that for safety reasons). We did that for a while, but it was so much hassle, getting that bed out every night & putting it away in the morning (our bedroom is small). Finally, we took out the waterbed mattress, put in a regular mattress & I've been sleeping through the night ever since (for the most part). When the new baby came along, we threw an 'arms reach co-sleeper' alongside the bed for her. They have, since, moved on to their own beds. And, they start out in their own beds most of the time, although we still like co-sleeping from time to time.

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Answer 10

Get a check up. See a general practitioner and get some bloodwork done, even for aids. Also, if he finds out your physically fine, than ask for a good psychiatrist to go to.
Honestly, it sounds like your having nightmares. Drink more water since your losing so much when you sleep.