Night sweats
 

Anyone else experiencing night sweats? Any chances this might be related to Kundalini? (again, hahahaha)
I've been having this for several years, but now it is starting to annoy me. I wake up with my hair completely oily, and this has also been causing acne problems on my skin. Sometimes it is so hot I get nightmares but usually I sleep well through it. :confused:

Oh my - night sweats, oily hair, pimples - yup, yup and yup. It's either kundalini, hormones, or a combination of both.

I'm keeping well hydrated, sleeping with the window open and having a cool shower before I sleep - and no polyester or silk sheets - cotton for everything and no mattress topper - it makes it worse.

Night time humidity is the worst.

Woowww so glad to know I am not actually the only who suffers from those terrible night sweats!!! It is just the WORST THING EVER...

Anyway, I am going to visit my doctor next week to see if she can helps me with this bad skin situation, it is getting out of control and I am already using all available products to prevent oily skin. :icon_frown:
Also I am CONSTANTLY thirsty, 24/7, no matter how much water I drink, and I already raised my water consumption and got checked for Diabetes so I am running out of options here =(

It's a good idea that you went to get checked for diabetes. Did they run a full blood panel?
Anyway, you could be thirsty because you actually lose fluid through sweating! Just as you would during exercise, and the body is compensating so you don't get dehydrated.

It could be hormonal changes. I don't know.

I had lots of night sweats in my thirties. Sometimes in my forties. Occasionally at the menopause but not as much as some get. Then after that -rarely. I got a full blood panel run by the doctor to rule out anything physical. Then I just shrugged and got along with it. It didn't make my skin or hair oily though.
I washed sheets a lot! lol

I did find out a personal silly idiosyncratic thing which may not be relevant for anyone else, and which is certainly counter-intuitive. I found that sleeping naked or with just bikini pants on I would break out in night sweats. If I wore night clothes I didn't! How weird. In my own case I think that when in deep sleep if I was slightly cold my body temperature thermostat would go up and it would make me sweat eventually to regulate temperature. When I slept wearing something it never happened. I'm not saying that would happen with you. I'm peculiar! haha

Tobi, how interesting, it makes SO MUCH SENSE. I can only sleep naked (hahaha) so this might be part of the issue as well!! I will try to sleep with pijamas on tonight (even when I don't feel comfy sleeping on them) and see if it gets better! :smile: :smile:

cdoliveira, I would be interested to know if that worked for you? But it might not work in a hot climate, when the cause of over heating in sleep might be obvious. I live in a place which is fairly cold most of the time.

Hi Tobi,

Yes, your statement seems to be legit!!! I had a sleepover on a friend's house on Saturday, so I needed to use a long shirt to sleep and for my surprise, when I woke up next day my hair was oily but MUCH better than it normally should be. I also noticed my skin was a less oily than normal.
How interesting is that!!!

At one point in time, I did have that problem, lasting for a while. Certain foods, and eating at certain times would affect the intensity of the night sweats too.

I don't know if my situation was the same as yours, because night sweats itself is only a symptom, which could be caused by different reasons. Mine was an imbalance, which I did not know at the time. Raisins could "cancel" the night sweating to a certain extent, but it doesn't address the root cause.

I adjusted my diet, and the night sweats went away.

I learned from herbalist and acupuncturists, by seeing them as a patient, over a long period of time, as my body has many problems. In the process, I learned that the body's energy is supposed to rise in the day and fall in the night. So towards the evening, I try to cool down my body, in sync with the natural rhythm of the day and night cycle, and so the night sweats went away.

Wanchain

I did feel instinctively that the sweating was a way of detoxing. Sometimes even after a broken sleep with waking soaked in sweat....I would feel so much stronger and better energy the next day. That was what made me wonder....did it need to be stopped? Or was it showing me something I needed?

I drank lots of water and ate good healthy food, and did some useful exercise which would make me sweat in the day. Then often I didn't get a night sweat.

Sage is often used against night sweats, but I never used it as I didn't want to suppress anything.
Likewise a tea made from strawberry leaves.

Theres something about sleeping on our back which causes apnea, snoring, sweating, and more intense dreams. Try your side if u dont already... Oh and use bamboo sheets

My brother experiences this..

I tend to get these usually around the same time at night 1:30-3:30. I experienced a kundalini awakening months back, so its possible. Two weeks ago I had 2 nights where I needed to change my boxers the sweating was so bad.

Oh wow, no, intense sweating for me, that was not an issue for me at all. Although, I was running/training at the time when I was under Kunalini influence, I could have disposed of that energy during running. I sweat a great deal when I run :P I remember being dehydrated and thirsty A LOT. Lots of body heat being generated but I lived in a very cold climate at the time. Coldest in the nation sometimes. I wonder if climate has any direct or indirect influence to the body during a Kundalini periods. I live in Florida now were there are super hot temperatures, wondering if the climate would made my experience different. So many questions! You would think I would have done more research. I think the phenomena was too intense for me, I would rather not re live it again.


Interesting!

It's definitely not a fun feeling to wake up in a puddle of sweat. Oddly enough my body for the past 2 months has been in overdrive sweating no matter how much exercise I put in. If i get a shower, my sweat glands dont stop for two hours. I've tried taking a cold shower near the end, but it's just how I'm wired for now I suppose. Being in the mid atlantic of the US, I'd end up with the same thing when the weather changed from fall to winter and my body hadn't switched over yet. But we're now in February and it's still going, the good thing is I don't smell, as its all just water :laughing6:

Oh mt gosh, your amount of sweat seems incredibly intense, how does your wife stand you? :laugh: Maybe you need to incorporate exercise?


Cold showers work very, especially cooling down the chakra areas !

LOL, She's seen it for years, like I said, I'm fortunate to not have BO. :biggrin: And I am exercising more than I did even in my teens or early 20's, although I truly hate the treadmill, and will gladly lift weights over that awful machine :)

I've tried just about everything, but in the end I just gave up and I'm now taking Phenergan (Promethazine) as an anti cholinergic agent. It is doing the trick nicely.

Okay...I don't get night sweats any more and haven't had them for years, but something else has started happening which is a sudden development, and I don't understand it.
It's really cold weather here, powder snow in the air, but no snow on the ground yet, so of course I'm wearing winter gear (as I usually do in cold weather, so that's no different)
So when I go for a walk I have only gone one mile and I start to overheat and can feel my clothes sticking to me. I have to sometimes take off my jacket and scarf, and blow inside the front of my sweater to get cooler!
Today I took the whole lot off and could feel how biting the wind was but I had to do something to cool down a little.
At the end of the second mile (I had to walk across country to get to a village store) -I was soaking wet.
Bad idea in bitter cold weather....
So I put everything back on again and was icy cold plus too hot both at the same time!
When I got home my underclothes were soaked through. My top and sweater were damp too. But I felt strong, well, healthy...
I had to shower and change everything for dry clothes.
The sweat smelled sweet. Not unpleasant at all. Now I sniff my dried clothes which got soaked on my walk, and they smell fresh like the laundry powder I use....weird.
This hasn't just happened once. It's been happening for 2 weeks or so.
I have no illnesses, no conditions, am healthy, am not menopausal any longer (by 10 years!) I eat healthily lots of good balanced veggie food, drink plenty of water....Have no other symptoms. Oh and my thyroid is fine.
I do get extra thirsty after that has happened, like tonight. I drank water to make up for it.
What the heck is it?

I'm a hunter(some are surely against it but I use what I take and always thank the Earth for providing). Anyway,I found out years back that the only way to hike in the winter is to strip down to just a long shirt, tie your jacket around your waist. The worst thing you can do is soak yourself with sweat, especially if you plan to stop and sit for a period of time. I definitely haven't had the sweetness smell on those trips though

Similar to what Wanchain was saying, a Taoist might attribute night sweats to overactive yang, or yin deficiency. A very general way of saying you need to balance your internal energies out in some way. There are a lot of different ways to do that -- meditating to calm the body/mind and lead it in the yin direction; not eating too late at night, and not eating too much for dinner; not exercising too late; not looking at computer or phone screens too close to sleeping; etc. There are also concepts like exercising earlier in the day can increase one's yang energy, encouraging the body to naturally balance itself out later in the evening by making the transition to a yin state more fully.

Thanks for that advice EndOfTheRoad. Too late, I saw my mistake. Fortunately it was only a 5-6 mile round walk to the little store and back, so I could get back quite quickly, change and warm up. But it's definitely a danger in a wilderness situation, and probably a quick way to get hypothermia!
You are right. I'll do that in future.