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| SYSTEM-J |
Okay, it's 5am and I am more than a little freaked out.
I moved house on Saturday. I'm living in a big shared house next to a park, 10 minutes walk from the office for the next few months. My room is on the middle floor of three.
Starting on Monday night, I came down with a tonsil infection, almost certainly a side-effect of getting absolutely smashed at the weekend and having practically no food or sleep for a couple of days. As well as a very sore and swollen throat I've been feeling exhausted and a little feverish. Yesterday (Wednesday morning) I woke up in the morning and the clothes I'd slept in were absolutely drenched in sweat. It was odd because I'd been waking up feeling cold, but that's what happens when you have a fever, right?
I've just woken up at 4.30am today, drenched again. It's scary. I half-woke up at some point and took my T-shirt off because it was wet through and clammy, but I've woke up again because all the bedding around me is drenched. My skin is wet to the touch. But here's the thing: I don't feel hot AT ALL. I don't feel dehydrated. I don't feel even slightly feverish. I had some aspirin before bed, and while my throat is sore I actually feel okay. What the is happening?
I'm starting to think it isn't sweat at all. I don't smell of sweat and again, I don't feel dehydrated in the way that this kind of massive fluid loss would make me. I was briefly terrified that I'd inexplicably started pissing myself, but there's no stains on the bedding, no smell and why would me shirt get clammy first? It can't be piss.
So what the is going on? The rest of the room is dry. Oddly enough, my head is dry. My hair isn't damp at all. The only source of moisture in the room is the window pane, which is running with condensation. All I can speculate is that somehow a lot of moisture in the air is condensing due to my body heat, or something like that? It doesn't really make sense, but it's the only thing that vaguely fits the evidence. The bedroom gets very hot in the evening when the heating is on, but cools off in the night. Other than that I'm frankly utterly baffled and more than a little worried.
Answers on a ing postcard, please! |
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| wienerschnitzel |
| I'm sure you'd probably remember if you did, but are you by chance having really ing horrible dreams? Sometimes when i have a lot of anxiety i might have a bad dream and wake up in a cold sweat. My son also gets soaking wet when he has night terrors. Other then that i don't know what else it could be? :conf: |
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| enydo |
When I go through a period along the lines that you mentioned (feeling sick, sore throat, achey, whatever), I get that exact same sweating-while-sleeping thing. I'll wake up for several days just absolutely soaked, and freezing, because the bedding is all soaked as well. Usually I'll be having some pretty vivid dreams.
It's gross and sucks. I've actually woken up a few times and been shocked at just HOW sweaty the bedding was.
Then it'll usually go away and I'm fine. Sorry if that doesn't help. =/ |
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| SYSTEM-J |
I'm not having any vivid dreams or hallucinations or anything. I genuinely don't feel feverish at all. I just get paranoid when I have a pharmaceutical weekend and then something odd happens health-wise... My first thought is always that I've permanently fried my homeostasis neurons, or something.
If it IS sweat it's ing crazy. |
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| Sushipunk |
Definitely kinda freaky.
It's not piss, because you'd smell it. It's got to just be your body sweating hardcore, due to the infection or whatever. The only time I can remember anything vaguely close to this is a couple of years ago when I got salmonella poisoning. It took me down for a couple of days, and I remember waking on the second day just like you did - absolutely soaked with sweat, all over the bed-clothes, everything.
Not to get too personal, but are you pissing really bright orange? That will tell you if you're dehydrated or not, even if you don't feel it.
[Edit] Ok, "pharmaceutical weekend". It's likely just your body ridding itself of unwanted toxins. Been there a few times too, years ago. |
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| enydo |
Well, if you're worried about it I suppose keep an eye on yourself, and if need be go see a doctor. And be honest about your pharmaceutical weekend.
It's sorta shocking how much the body can sweat. Unless you're having any other really alarming symptoms I doubt it's anything, especially if you'd been feeling ill. |
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| Lilith |
| quote: | Originally posted by SYSTEM-J
Answers on a ing postcard, please! |
Go see a doctor you silly boy, it sounds like a severe infection. In the meantime keep your fluids and blood sugar levels up. |
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| enydo |
| quote: | Originally posted by Sushipunk
[Edit]It's likely just your body ridding itself of unwanted toxins. Been there a few times too, years ago. |
What is a 'toxin'? |
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| Sushipunk |
| quote: | Originally posted by enydo
What is a 'toxin'? |
Not sure if serious...
Just unwanted chemicals, or whatever, that can stay in your system for a while, after a "pharmaceutical weekend". |
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| SYSTEM-J |
| I saw a doctor yesterday, I've just started on antibiotics for the tonsil infection. That's probably the simplest explanation, it's just totally new to me to wake up without a temperature but utterly drenched like this. I guess copious amounts of paracetamol and aspirin can mask the discomfort but that doesn't mean your body isn't still ed. |
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| enydo |
Probs that.
Stu I'm just being a dick. Whenever people bring up "toxins" I tend to roll my eyes. I get the concept, I just don't really think it's applicable to much of anything. There are toxins in literally everything that goes into, or touches, your body.
//Clearly here, toxin referring to pharmaceuticals. :eek: Sorry, speaking of toxins............... 420
THIS NEW BURIAL THO |
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| Sushipunk |
| quote: | Originally posted by SYSTEM-J
I saw a doctor yesterday, I've just started on antibiotics for the tonsil infection. That's probably the simplest explanation, it's just totally new to me to wake up without a temperature but utterly drenched like this. I guess copious amounts of paracetamol and aspirin can mask the discomfort but that doesn't mean your body isn't still ed. |
Could be a reaction to the specific antibiotic? That's definitely not unheard of.
| quote: | Originally posted by enydo
Stu I'm just being a dick. Whenever people bring up "toxins" I tend to roll my eyes. I get the concept, I just don't really think it's applicable to much of anything. There are toxins in literally everything that goes into, or touches, your body. |
LOL, ok. You're right, of course, but Jack's "pharmaceuticals" are like to have slightly weirder stuff in them than something you'd see in regular store items, let's be honest here :p |
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