Waking up soaked in sweat?

Does anyone else wake up soaked in bed? Sheets are wet, literally need to change bedrooms and clothing becuase its so fouled up. During my first night getting tested for apnea, i woke up to the technician in my room telling me a few of my sensors were not working, he saw that I was sweating and he figured this was the reason. He told me it looked like i was having an anxiety attack in my sleep... anything like this ever happen to you?

lol i know this is a weird ass post, im not really worried about it... Its just strange.

Ps i wake up cold not warm

One side effect that I get is no sweat which is a real problem,could count on losing 6 pounds from night time to wake up time just by moving around and sweating.Now lose one pound at night and it seems to not be all water weight.I liked being able to eat anything and not gain, now nonfat yogurt even puts on #s.The sleep lab I went to was so cold thought they were eskimos running the place, was going to check the sleep techs extremities for being abnormally short but didnt want to be rude.I would guess it was all the weird wires and things that got you freaked a touch.

mtb211 wrote:Does anyone else wake up soaked in bed? Sheets are wet, literally need to change bedrooms and clothing becuase its so fouled up. During my first night getting tested for apnea, i woke up to the technician in my room telling me a few of my sensors were not working, he saw that I was sweating and he figured this was the reason. He told me it looked like i was having an anxiety attack in my sleep... anything like this ever happen to you?

lol i know this is a weird ass post, im not really worried about it... Its just strange.

Ps i wake up cold not warm

This link might explain - http://www.life123.com/health/natural-r ... -men.shtml

find a doc who will take the sweating seriously, could be an overheated bedroom, anxiety, AIDS or many other things

I don't think I'm alone in having begun to sweat a lot while sleeping prior to going on Cpap, though I'm not sure what the connection is.

It may have to do with how your body is dealing with respiratory events.

When obstructions occur, the body/brain perceives them as life-threatening because, well, because they ARE if they don't end. The way they end is often by what has been called a "central nervous alarm reaction," which is, in this case, an action designed to cause an arousal to change the state of sleep. That then increases muscle tone in the airway so that breathing can resume. That reaction, though, can cause a full out hormonal panic, and like any other panic caused by a life-threatening situation, it can do a real number on the body, especially if it happens repeatedly every night for years.

The problem is that if your body is in the habit of doing that to you every night to keep you alive, it may be all geared up for that job and it can take a while for it to learn not to do that once you lessen the number of events with PAP therapy. Sometimes it seems like the body may assume that it is somehow missing the events and will actively search out any change in your sleep and throw a load of hormones at you. And it also seems like if there is a bunch of that stuff sitting around inside you just looking for a reason to hit your bloodstream, your body may look for any reason to use it during the day, causing anxiety/panic/depression issues. If that is the case, you may have to give your body some time to figure out it doesn't have to do that anymore. Easing off on the stress can help. Sometimes. But the main thing, if that is what is happening, is to get good PAP treatment and to use it all night every night, or whenever you sleep, so the body/brain can learn as quickly as possible that you are safe when asleep.

Naturally the above is an oversimplification based on my partial understanding of one overreaching theory. But, hey, that's what most of medicine is, right? And I think it is in the ballpark of what happens to some of us.

Then again, in your case, it could be something else completely.

jeff

Are you taking any anti-depressant medication ?

mtb211 wrote:Does anyone else wake up soaked in bed? Sheets are wet, literally need to change bedrooms and clothing becuase its so fouled up. During my first night getting tested for apnea, i woke up to the technician in my room telling me a few of my sensors were not working, he saw that I was sweating and he figured this was the reason. He told me it looked like i was having an anxiety attack in my sleep... anything like this ever happen to you?

lol i know this is a weird ass post, im not really worried about it... Its just strange.

Ps i wake up cold not warm

For me, nite sweats were a symptom of un-diagnosed Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA), as were the nite time potty breaks, high blood pressure, and daytime sleepiness. Oh, OH and mood swings with grouchiness.

HTH

GumbyCT wrote:For me, nite sweats were a symptom of un-diagnosed Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA), as were the nite time potty breaks, high blood pressure, and daytime sleepiness. Oh, OH and mood swings with grouchiness.

HTH

So what's your excuse now, Grump, after 2+ years of therapy?

Night sweats can also be a symptom of panic disorder. Do you wake during the night, heart pounding, sit bolt upright, feeling like you are gasping, about to die?

Before I get yelled at, yes, I KNOW that unexpected waking, heart pounding, gasping for air, etc., are also symptoms of OSA. I'm just tossing this out there as a possibility.

I'd encourage you to talk with your doctor giving him/her full information about what is going on with you. Could be that you have more than just OSA going on.
Good luck with this!

BleepingBeauty wrote:

GumbyCT wrote:For me, nite sweats were a symptom of un-diagnosed Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA), as were the nite time potty breaks, high blood pressure, and daytime sleepiness. Oh, OH and mood swings with grouchiness.
HTH

So what's your excuse now, Grump, after 2+ years of therapy?

Believe it or not I put that in there just so YOU can Bleep at me. ha - that was easy.

mtb211 wrote:Does anyone else wake up soaked in bed? Sheets are wet, literally need to change bedrooms and clothing becuase its so fouled up. During my first night getting tested for apnea, i woke up to the technician in my room telling me a few of my sensors were not working, he saw that I was sweating and he figured this was the reason. He told me it looked like i was having an anxiety attack in my sleep... anything like this ever happen to you? lol i know this is a weird ass post, im not really worried about it... Its just strange. Ps i wake up cold not warm

Nightsweats are non uncommon in peri or menopausal woman...I notice you are male, but might try some of the recommendations anyway.............cool shower before going to bed, cool bedroom, light sleep clothes, lightweight covers, cool drink by bedside..........nightsweats can be a symptom of many medical problems, if your's doesn't seem to be temperature related, might want to see you MD to see if related to medical problem other than OSA if you were not having them before CPAP treatment.

elg5cats

I used to have that problem too. Wake up to find yourself sweaty, sometimes so bad it's soaked through the sheets and into the mattress, once it was so bad I even had to change my down comforter because it was soaked too, but no panic, not sitting bolt upright, no pounding heart like a panic attack. Just waking up sweaty. I haven't had a single episode of it since going on cpap. I assume it's because like jnk said, your body is fighting and strugling to stay alive and that causes an adrenaline surge which makes you sweat.

Oh and yes, I would wake up cold too. Drenched in sweat and ice cold from it.

The good news is that if you're anything like me, you shouldn't experience it anymore once you start cpap.

good luck!

Hey I will need some help from more experienced cpap-ers.. but do you have a ResMed Vantage and a REMstar humidifier?? I don't think they interface with one another. Maybe some forum folk can help me with this question or maybe you posted the incorrect photos. If these are correct then maybe because they are not working together they are causing more sleep problems.

How long has the sweating been going on? If it just started you need to let the MD know and acknowledge your symptoms. In other words don't take a brush off. It could be as the above folk described or could be something else that just happened to start up with cpap. Anyway do not let it slide.

Best wishes.

mtb211 wrote:Does anyone else wake up soaked in bed? Sheets are wet, literally need to change bedrooms and clothing becuase its so fouled up. During my first night getting tested for apnea, i woke up to the technician in my room telling me a few of my sensors were not working, he saw that I was sweating and he figured this was the reason. He told me it looked like i was having an anxiety attack in my sleep... anything like this ever happen to you?

lol i know this is a weird ass post, im not really worried about it... Its just strange.

Ps i wake up cold not warm

Is this with CPAP or prior to CPAP? Night sweats are common for untreated sleep apnea. If you are having apneas, your heart can be struggling hard to pump more oxygen-carrying blood. During these times of high stress your body uses a defense mechanism to rid itself of some fluids in an attempt to lower the load on the heart. This defense mechanism is profuse sweating. It used to happen to me frequently before I was diagnosed and started CPAP. With CPAP it went away.

If you are still having "bed sweats" with CPAP, you could still be experiencing apnea. What does your monitoring data show?

Don't worry about hormones and panic attacks at this point. First, you need to be sure your CPAP therapy is keeping your apnea at an acceptably low level. If it is, then you can look into other less common causes for night sweats.

BTW, obstructive sleep apnea and CPAP are both "weird ass" in my opinion. It then follows that any discussion about them is also "weird ass".