Excessive body heat

[morgan1]

I am constantly overheated.  My body temperature is always normal but I seem to "throw off" my body heat all day long.  Even at night with the air conditioning on I am constantly throwing the covers off, my husband uses me to warm the bed up in the cold months, it only takes me about 10 minutes to totally warm up a king size bed.  I am sitting here at work doing nothing but typing on the computer and I am overheated.  Is this possibly a medical condition of some kind.  It is driving me nuts!

[tnt406]

HI MORGAN HAVE YOU SEEN YOUR DOCTOR ABOUT THIS?WHEN YOU TAKE YOUR TEMPERATURE DO YOU USE A MERCURY THERMOTER?IF NOT TRY USING THAT.A DIGITAL THERMOTER DOES NOT ALL WAYS GIVE AN ACCURATE READING.WHAT OTHER PROBLEMS ARE YOU HAVING?DO YOU SKIP PERIODS?ARE YOU LOSING WEIGHT WITH OUT TRYING?HOW DOES YOUR HAIR LOOK?YOU MIGHT HAVE THYROID DISORDER.IF YOU DO YOU NEED TO HAVE IT CHECKED OUT.I AM NOT A DOCTOR,JUST SOME ONE WHO CARES ABOUT YOUR HEALTH AND WELL BEING.TAKE CARE OF YOUR SELF.TNT406.P.S.LET ME KNOW IF YOU HAVE ANY OF THOSE SYMPTOMS.TAKE CARE.

[Angie O'Plasty]

I second the comment about possible thyroid problems (hyperthyroidism).  Other symptoms can include tachycardia (fast heart rate), weight loss despite eating at least a normal amount (maybe more), feeling "jittery", and protruding eyes.  Are you having any of these?  You should get yourself checked out.

[morgan1]

I still have all my hair, I can't lose weight even when I try.  I do have hypothyroidism and take Synthroid. I will check with my endocrinologist and see what he has to say.

Thanks for the ideas.

[Angie O'Plasty]

If you're taking Synthroid, it might be a good idea to check with your endo to see if the dose needs to be decreased.  If the dose is too high, the symptoms will be those of hyperthyroidism.

[donnagirl]

hello i'm donna and i have a problem with my body overheating at night. i have hot flashes and take medication for it, but,  my body tends to get really hot at night when i go to bed. between this and my hot flashes i am totally miserable at night and losing a lot of sleep behind this what is wrong with my body???? please help

[AnnieBrooke]

This is an old thread you have posted on, but I'll help you if I can.  Is the medicine for menopause or something else?  If not menopause, have you been checked for it or other hormonal issues?  You might let your doctor know what is happening and ask specifically about hormones.

[Kot]

I had my thyroid checked. Multinodular goiter, benign.
I had body heat, heart palpitation, lack of sleep.
Doctor-radiologist sent me home , said it is OK.
I do not know what to do with my body heat....please help.
I have slightly high thyroid antibody.

[Hellavagirl122]

I have low body heat and it makes me stiff every day until I take a hot bath to warm myself up.  Do I have low body heat and if so what condition could it be and what herb can i take for it.

[ennaxor]

hi, im roxanne. i am often told by people who i sleep with, my daughter included, that my body is really hot. although i dont really notice this and there are no discomforts either. infact,i have very low tolerance of cold.
i just want to understand my body. is this normal? should i seek the doctor?
could anybody explain to me this condition? thanks

[Bettie605]

I had a blood transfusion 18 years ago and I started being really warm alot now that I have begun having hotflashes I am on fire all day long, I can barely stand being away from air conditioning and my family complains about the house being too cold.  Does anybody know if this could be from a transfusion because I think that when I started being hot.

[Zubj]

Can anyone suggest me some cure(food) for excessive heating.i hav no disease or disorder.

[divainca]

I have had the problem of excessive body heat and excessive sweating as long as I can remember (I am now 56).  I can be sitting in my office, air conditioning on, and all of sudden start dripping sweat that actually will land on the papers I am working on.  It appears to have no relation to the temperature - although it is always accompanied by the body heat.  I'm not sure which is the cause and which is the effect!   My excessive sweating is not under the arms, or feet or hands.  Instead it seems localized above the neck, which I found is called "cranio facial hyperhidrosis".    I did my own research to find this, and I also found that many doctors are unaware of this condition and/ro its debilitating effects, and want to shrug it off as "we all do that sometimes" or "it;s just menopause" despite the fact that I've had if for the last 4 decades.  Looking back, I know my mother suffered from it also, although she passed away some time ago.,  It has been a lifelong disability - preventing me from participating in any sports - even in high school,  or going anyplace you walk around outside when it's hot.  Actually, it doesn't even have to be hot.  Inside stores - even with a/c - I always seem to get hot within a few moment (it's like it comes on when it's stuffy).    I can't remember the last time I bought anything with long sleeves and was able to wear it for any length of time.  I layer everything.  I cannot wear sweaters, coats - it's just totally debilitating.  I am currently trying to pursue some kind of treatment for the hyperhidrosis (which may actually be a side effect of the excessive body heat, for which I have no diagnosis) from my doctors, but I find I am educating them, rather than the reverse.  If anyone knows what this is called - or any treatment for either the excessive body heat or excessive facial and head sweating - please share - ...

[kiskadee]

This is the first time I have ever joined anything online but when I read your comments I thought I was reading about myself. I am also 56 and suffer the embarrassment of sudden "showers". I have reached a point where I do not like to go shopping or to parties and I stopped going to yoga because of my excess sweating. My body is generally fine, hot, but fine, but my head drips. Sometimes I'm not even aware until drops of sweat suddenly fall in front of me. I have to be very careful about what I wear as my shoulders and chest can be covered in wet splashes in a few moments. I live in a semi-tropical place with high humidity and the older I get the worse this problem gets but I cannot blame just the climate. When I travel to cold climates I'm fine until I go inside a shop and then the waterfall begins. I have developed a bit of social anxiety which can make me sweat but I don't know which is cause and which is effect. I have asked my doctor about it and get the usual response of "menopause" but, as you said, I seem to have been in menopause most of my adult life. He also tried me on beta-blockers ( for the anxiety) but they did not help and had some odd effects. I'm sorry I cannot suggest anything to help but I just needed to reach out to someone who understands. No one else in my family, that I know of, has this problem

[ocd_nana]

To All:
I have never responded to any forums on-line, but I recently decided to seek information regarding my excessive heat and perspiration problem. I am 50 years old and find it dehabilitaing, embarassing and emotionally draining. Right now I had to reach over and turn on my little fan (I have them all over my home (5 in all), besides a ceiling fan in every room. It is one way I have found to deal with the onset of my constant overheating.  It is like a switch has been turned and I begin perspiring at my temples, on my face, neck, between my breasts and if I am unable to control my enviroment, down my back.  I have been tested for thryoid about 12 years ago, but not recently. I had two heart attacks in 2006, as well as two blood transfusions. For myself, I have found humidity is a huge factor, even a little humidity makes me feel ill. I have no answers, just questions. Take care and good luck.

[joyo036]

I have the same sort of problem...I get really hot for no reason.  Right now I am sitting watching tv in jeans and a tank top and it is like 60 degrees in the room.  I feel like I am boiling.  When I go to bed, my boyfriend can only hold me for a few seconds before we are both hot.  Most of the time when I am at home I can barely stand to wear clothes, so I usually sit naked.  I keep it dark and cool inside, but I still get really hot.  I am still a teenager so I am not sure why I get these "hot flashes" and the weirdest thing is that I don't sweat while I am hot.  I feel like I am sweating but no liquid comes out, its more of a sticky feeling.  It is so incredibly weird and I wish it would stop.  Also like some have previously mentioned whenever I go into a store I get hot, especially when I try on clothes...I get flushed and it is a little embarrassing.  

[divainca]

I have posted my experiences and questions earlier in this forum - my excessive sweating is concentrated primarily on my head, face and neck, and I finally found something that has helped tremendously!  It is not a cure, but it certainly alleviated a lot of the aggravation.  The only bad side effects I have experienced are dry mouth (about an hour after I take the medication, and it lasts about an hour) and the fact that if I forget to take it, the sweating seems to return instantly.  It is a RX called

                                  DITROPAN

It really worked for me and it's worth a try.  (it's the prescriprion for overactive bladder of all things!).  I have been taking it for about a month now, and would love to hear from anyone else that has tried it.  Of course, the real test will be in the summer....

[divainca]

I was reading your post and am very sympathetic.  At my age, all the doctor's want to pass it off as menopause, but at your age - there is no reason for your suffering.   I am not a doctor, but research on the internet or with your doctor a condition called hyperhidrosis ( there is palmar (palms), feet, underarms and face (cranial-facial hyperhidrosis).  If I can help a young person beat this before it has a chance to impact her adult life, I would be thrilled.  Plus...without the internet I would never have been able to put a name to the condition, because the doctors are very unaware of it.  So...take print out some of your research (the mayo clinic has recently done some great clincial trials involving BOTOX as the the treatment) to your doctors and educate them!  They need to recognize this as a valid medical condition.  

http://www.mayoclinic.org/hyperhidrosis/treatment.html

There is also a surgery, called ETS (side affects are major though) and read my latest post about DITROPAN.  Hope this helps you.  Don't let anyone tell you it will just go away -"after all, everyone sweats and its a good thing" - because if you have this condition, it NEVER goes away and it causes all kinds of social problems.

[4Charmed]

I had excessive body heat for as far back as I can remember. Finally I discovered for myself, that I have a Caffeine Allergy & a sugar intolerance. When I eliminated ALL sources of my caffeine consumption and had only minimal sugar intake (limited to natural sources) the excessive body heat issue went away completely. I recommend trying it for a 2 week period and see if it help you too. I am confident you will see many health benefits as I half.

[VICTORIANECHO]

I am so glad I found this forum!  I thought I was the only person this was happening to.  I started the "change" 10 years ago--hot flashes, etc--  I've been over that several years, but now I have this excessive body heat.  My house stays at 60 degrees and my husband wears sweats all year long.  If the temperature gets to 65 while I'm sleeping, it will wake me up.  It looks to me like there are alot of us out there and no place to turn.  Any suggestions?

Lynne  

[lillyof64]

I am sitting here, fighting back the tears as I read this. My dr has been baffled and done every test, and could not find out why I am so hot and sweating all the time. Ive never seen or heard of anyone else with this problem before now. I just went to an endocrinologist on friday and even she didnt know what was going on. I see my Dr next week and I am going to tell her about what has been said here and maybe  finally, I can get some kind of life back. I have gained 60 lbs in the past couple years, because I cannot even walk 2 blocks without getting so hot and sick I have to stop.  And when it happens, when I overheat, it can sometimes take DAYS for my body to cool down enough for it not to be unbearable. My normal body temp is what others would deem "hot". I cannot tell you all the relief I felt reading I was not the only one. I think we need to start a support group!

[lillyof64]

The thing is that article from the mayo clinic, only adresses sweating. Its more than the sweating, its the body heat, that makes my life miserable. Sweating I think I could live with, but I dont cool off, even when I am sweating buckets. I am tired of being a prisoner in my own home and body. I want my life back damn it!!!! My house is a mess, my life is a mess, because I cant do a thing, without my body overheating to the point I want to throw up and no amount of sweating, cools me off. I feel like I am a human microwave, cooking from the inside out. Please, if any of those things previously mentioned helped you , let me know.

[sweatsalot]

I am a male, so I suppose I have a different perspective on this issue. I have had hyperhidrosis (excessive sweating) of the hands since puberty. However, about 7 years ago (I am now 31), I began to experience generalized sweating over my entire body, as well as a total intolerance to heat. I now despise the summer, and also find it difficult to get motivated to do anything because I get unbearably hot and sweaty and, as a result, agitated. To make things worse, the sweat is usually obnoxiously clammy so, overall, it *****. I have been to numerous specialists (dermatologists, endocrinologist, thoracic surgeon, neurologist), and have always come back with the same diagnosis of hyperhidrosis (after testing for thyroid problems, adrenal cancer, and other issues). Of course, I have no idea why I am so damn hot all of the time, I feel like I have a radiator in my body, and my wife says she can feel the heat on my stomach, back and extremities. I have tried a bunch of medications, most of which were aimed at the sweating piece of the puzzle (ditropan, clonidine, robinul, gabapentin, mirtazipine, various anti-depressants, bella donna alkaloids with PB, etc.), these meds (particularly the anticholinergic ones) worked for a time, but my body heat would invariably go up as the sweating stopped (the heat had nowhere to go!). Furthermore, these meds lost their effectiveness over time, and the dosages had to be continually raised (causing more undesired side affects). So, I am currently left with the always annoying diagnosis of hyperhidrosis, and few options for treatment. I long for my old body, and am not sure I can have it back.

[maxit]

I am 65 yrs old, I have had excessive body heat for 2 - 3 yrs.  My dr. has done several tests and they come back normal, she put me on clinidine which did nothing at all for the heat but did help lower my blood pressure.  She always tries to say that it is memopause, I have been there and I know the difference, I am not going thru menopause.  My body heat seems to start at about chest level and goes up, no matter how cool it is, what I am doing, or what I am wearing.  I can be perfectly still and all of a sudden I am so hot I can't stand it (even in the ac and with fans blowing directly on me), I sweat profusely on my face, neck, and breast line.  I am at a loss for what to do, or who to go to.  It is like the dr. thinks I am exaggerating.  At the time this is happening my skin feels clammy.   by desperate

[mari1yn]

Me too!  So glad to find someone talking about this who is my age.   I have experienced the problem for around 5 years, but talking to my doctor produced no results.  I have not tried any medications but am printing this discussion to show at my next physical appointment.  Since I am a caffeinaholic and sugar magnet, I will concentrate on weaning myself to see if it might help (4Charmed). Thanks to all for this "bandwagon".  I, like others who have posted, thought it was my problem alone.