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PMR, PREDNISONE, SWEATING

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kathy67492
kathy67492

I have forgotten. Do the periodic sweating episodes continue the whole tme you have PMR.  I have had PMR for 19 months and still, periodically, habe the sweats....mostly at night. Thanks.

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  • gillian_25383
    gillian_25383 kathy67492

    Posted

    I do not know about anyone else but I do still get them.I went through the menopause at 47 and am now 57 so definitely PMR related. I live in hope that one day they will stop as does my husband who often decamps to the spare room when the duvet is going on and off at a rate of knots usually onto him ☺
    • faye______00403
      faye______00403 gillian_25383

      Posted

      I don't want to discourage you but I had hot flashes (including

      night sweats) way into my 70's.  I'm 78 and they have finally

      abated....when i asked doctors the only response I got is that

      "everyone is different.".....I thought they would never go away.

  • EileenH
    EileenH kathy67492

    Posted

    Probably - I've had PMR for over 10 years and still have sweats. Strangely, they seemed to be less at a higher dose of the current corticosteroid I'm on and seem to have returned a bit now I'm at a lower dose (4mg). I don't remember noticing them as much while we were in roasty-toasty China when I was on 5mg but maybe they just blended in with the heat! Someone else said the same just recently and wondered if it was adrenal insufficiency but I can't find anything to suggest an association. Unless it is a bit of turmoil in other hormones as the HPA axis sorts itself out. (HPA = hypothalamus, pituitary, adrenals, the bit feedback system).

    We have single duvets on a double bed - started it 20 years ago after OH was on chemotherapy and frozen in the hottest summer in Scotland for decades! He even had the heating on. So he had a heavy winter duvet, I had a very lightweight one and we've stayed that way. It is so much more comfortable when you have differing thermostats!

  • ptolemy
    ptolemy kathy67492

    Posted

    I still have sweats. What is really annoying I sailed through menopause with no problems. Oh well.
    • faye______00403
      faye______00403 ptolemy

      Posted

      Lucky lady on the menopause......what I'm feeling now is the bottom of my feet get hot and sweat.  I asked G.P. and chiropractor I'm going

      to and neither one seemed to have an answer for this problem

      Seems to have started when I had a horrible bout with sciatica

      in January....Like the author wrote.....Getting Older is not

      for Sissy's

  • molly1957
    molly1957 kathy67492

    Posted

    I'm in the middle of a sweat as I read this now lol mine are mostly at night also 
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