Night Sweats and Chills Question

[lintier]

I have only had my machine for two weeks but I did experience the chills one night. I woke up shivering so bad my teeth were chattering. It went away eventually. I discovered my heated humidifier was not heating. I suspect if cold mist and air are being inhaled with pressure it could give you a chill.

[idahogal]

Hi All, I am pre cpap (waiting for the dr. appt. monday) and YES YES YES!!!!!!!! I get not only night sweats but down to the bone chills afterward. I now realize that it is due to the apnea. As far as no one, until now, connecting the two I am not sure why. I should be starting cpap in the next few days here so I will keep posting with updates on how the sweating and chills go. I hope there is relief for me.

[NightHawkeye]

I should be starting cpap in the next few days here so I will keep posting with updates on how the sweating and chills go. I hope there is relief for me.

Hi Idahogal,

I wish you the best of luck with your therapy. Hopefully, you'll get lucky the way I did and the sweating and chills will disappear as soon as you get started on CPAP. Apnea seems to affect so many different body systems that people's symptoms can be wildly different. Please do keep posting with your updates.

Regards,
Bill

[idahogal]

NightHawkeye, I will certainly keep everyone posted as to what happens with the sweats and chills. I hope it works for me as well. I sure could use some dry sheets in the morning. Not to mention the complex it can give a woman who not only wakes up sweaty but snores too! My husband must be a saint to wake up to that every morning

[Slinky]

... My personal experience used to be night sweats on occasion, followed shortly by getting really cold. ...

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[roster]

A couple of weeks ago it seemed like I was blazing a new trail with my own special variety of sleep apnea, but now I’m not so sure. In searching around the internet, one place I stumbled across talked about a survey of apnea sufferers which found 66% of those with sleep apnea experienced excessive night sweating. Here’s the link: http://sleepdisorders.about.com/gi/dyna ... weats.html

My personal experience used to be night sweats on occasion, followed shortly by getting really cold. Sometimes arrhythmias occurred after sweating and before getting really cold. Since starting xPAP I don’t get really cold any more. Since starting xPAP the apnea, sweating and getting cold has only occurred once, and it occurred as the result of an exceptionally long apnea. I was able to directly connect the apnea with lowering my body temperature by over a degree from my normal body temperature.

The sweating followed by getting cold happens all the time to patients in surgery and anesthesiologists have a term for it – redistribution hypothermia. It sure fits what I experienced, but I’ve not been able to find anything at all connecting it with apnea, so it’s just my own personal hypothesis at the moment. Sure seems hard to think that these haven’t been connected yet, but considering that OSA wasn’t “discovered” until 1980, who knows. . .

Anybody else experience night sweats followed by chills (especially before starting CPAP)?

Regards,
Bill (just trying to connect the dots)

I know this post is approaching three years old but here I go. Before cpap I had many bad night sweats which I am sure were caused by long series of apneas. The sleep study showed I was having apneas greater than 90 seconds long, several in succession, during the worst parts of the night. Since cpap I no longer have night sweats.

Now to the chills. Before cpap I occasionally would have chills sometimes associated with night sweats and sometimes when I was dry. The chills were particularly bad, meaning very cold and long duration, when I took Benadryl (Diphenhydramine hydrochloride) at night.

Bendadryl will make me sleep deep and long. I theorize that Benadryl made the apneas of greater duration and frequency thus lead to the chilling. Chills is not listed as a side effect of Benadryl.

Recently when I was having trouble sleeping, I took Benadryl on two separate nights with my cpap running. I was fully expecting chills but did not have them. This seems to indicate that without apneas Benadryl will not cause chills.

Any thoughts or experience?

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