Purfuse sweating

[tinkerbell222]

Please tell me I am not alone. Listen dear friends. I sweat. I drip drop sweat. Here lately It's been pouring. It happens before I eat after I eat. there is no specific time or place or thing that I do. I've suffered all my life with this. Frst it was my hands and feet as a child. Then my armpits as an adolecence. Now mainly my head and face as an adult. This is suffering. Everyone thinks Im having a heartattack. I don't feel sick at the time. It's embarrasing. It make me live like a hermit. I take plenty baths. Usually this time of year when it's cool it slows down, but..............., Come on someone has to be like me so I dont feel so odd.

[krazy]

Hi Tinkerbell,I sweat too but mine is more like a hot flush then I brake out in a sweat.I can be doing anything and it will happen even if I am sitting down relaxing,my face also tuns red.The sweat comes out everywhere even on the backs of my hands
kay

[bugsy]

Hiya Tinkerbell

You certainly aren't alone, i suffer exactly the same - it is mainly my face, head and back, i had my hair cut short to see if that would help but it hasn't, my hair gets so wet that it looks like i have just washed it. I don't have to be doing anything - just sat watching tv or using the computer and it starts pouring out of me - the weather as started to get colder here but up to now it hasn't made any difference for me. I carry a small hand held fan around with me everywhere (i daren't leave home without it). I wish someone could find a cure to this embarrassing :blush2: problem - i hate it.

Take care :hug: Jo :hug:

[mommygiraffe]

I have this too, it is embarassing. It especially happens for me if I am in a store with flourescent lighting. I get loopy too in stores. Its hard for me to shop anywhere now. But its been happening at home too. Its weird to be sweating like that, and have my toes be blue from raynaud's and cold at the same time. At home I've been wearing shorts and tshirts and fuzzy socks and slippers at the same time. A lovely ensemble, I might add.

[jane1]

Hi Tinkerbell......:yes:....oh yes..i get sweaty..as in wet...normally my body..?:hehe:

[Rene]

Hi Tinkerbell, Yes this happens to me and I hate it. It is very embarrasing!My face will feel cool and I will be pouring sweat. It is worse in a hot flash,but honestly I can't tell the difference anymore because it happens so often. In some stores I get so hot and sweaty I can't even shop because I am so uncomfortable!;) It very well could be the flouresent lightly. My hair gets soaked! One day I went to Walmart and I was so hot I felt like I was roasting. When ever I got to my car I told my son to get in and I stood out side of the car and put my hair up in a pony tail. Poured water on a hand towel(I take one with me everywhere) and wrapped it around my neck. My shirt was soaked in the back.It was like I had been running in a race and all I had been doing is walking(slowly)around the store. So yes,there are several of us that go threw this and we all hate it!!P.S. I can take a shower and whenever I get out I start sweating!!!! I have to lay down and rest and cool off before I can get dressed.I feel like I need another shower! I never use to be like this before I got sick!! GOD BLESS! Wendy:)

[tinkerbell222]

I don't feel so lonely anymore. Thanks you guys for support. I mean this is weird. While trying to stay cool I have developed this bad cold. Bones ache. Think its the procardia? Plaquenil? Do your doctor give you any thing for it. Can't stay dry!!!

[glasslady]

I sweat like crazy too ...it just started since I got sick. It's sort of like a hot flash but with no "flash". My face just drips and I am incredibly HOT! I'm dressing like summer when the temp is in the 30's F. Before all this Lupus nonsense I never sweat at all ...was my claim to fame ...not a drop of sweat no matter what I did. That's sure not the case now. The doc tells me it's the meds ...so I'm learning to live with it. Actually I'm looking for some pretty hankies to put in my purse to wipe the sweat from my brow :rotfl: Anyone know where I can find some?

[tinkerbell222]

Has any one been prescribe something for this? Do you use anything beside soap water and deodarant? Hey it's depressing me. I don't wanna live with it. Not to this degree. My skin stays wet so it's to easy for me to catch colds or pneumonia. Other people think I'm having a heart attack. I really need some help. It's hard for me to go out in public like this. I'm tired of sitting in the house.

[lazylegs]

Hi Tinkerbell,

Have you let your doctor know the extent of sweating you are experiencing? There may be something that can help. It also may be indicitave of something else going on. If you haven't already get it checked out.

Take care,
Lazylegs

[peonyprincess]

I also have these horrible hot flashes. I contributed it to menopause, but I am never sure on some things if it is Lupus or some other ailment. My head and my face are the worse, with my trunk soon to follow. I hardly ever wear a winter coat because i get too hot. In the summer time I am miserable because of the heat and the hot flases, however, I enjoy the heat which makes my aches and pains a little more tolerable. In the winter, I enjoy the cold because I am not as hot, however, my aches and pains are much worse. I cannot win for losing.

When I do get these terrible hot flashes, I too pull my hair up into a pony tail, which seems to help. My face then looks like a grease pit. I did find some makeup sheets, cannot remember the exact name, but they are thin like tissue paper. They are cut into small squares and in a handy carry pouch. You blot your face with these and it takes the oil and sweat off your face and leaves the makeup intact. I have found these wonderful items at Bath & Body as well as thru a MaryKay dealer.

I too wish things like this would stop. There are so many lovely sweaters and sweatshirts that I would love to wear but I cannot. I understand the embarrassment factor as well. People who do not know you look at you funny like you are going to pass out or something. ARGH!!!!!!!!!



Nancy

[tinkerbell222]

Thanks lazylegs.

I went tio see ny rheummy today. I will let you know how this comes out. He got me taking all kinds of test. I'll post the results in 6wks.

[Sonia Hull]

Tinkerbell , I had this problem really bad a few years ago but learned it was caused by my PROZAC .Stopped taking it and stopped sweating also made me loose my hair. Maybe its med related. I don't know anything about Lupus except what I have read here. Waiting for diagnosis. Hang in ther sweetie.

[livingonaprayer]

Wow, had NO idea so many were suffering with this darn sweating thing! I too am a sufferer of this. I had never had this problem before my sickness.

I just know that this is embarrassing and irritating. I can't go ANYWHERE without breaking out into a bad sweat. It's mainly on my face, head and neck. Not too bad on my hands, but I drip from my head, face and neck like I just walked out of the shower.

I can't go shopping because as soon as I walk in the store, the sweat starts to drip. I don't even have to over exhert myself and it starts up.

I had no idea so many others suffer from this also. It's good to know I'm not alone. Don't get me wrong, I don't like the fact that you all are suffering from this, but it's good to know I"m not alone in feeling this way.

If anyone has any ideas as to why this is happening, please post. I am wondering if it is meds, the lupus or something else.

Tinkerbell, I'm here with you girl! You are NOT alone as you can see by all the posts here! So glad you posted on this subject. Take care and good luck!

Always,
Dee

[tinkerbell222]

I ask my rheummy what were the results from the test I had taken. He told me every thing was fine and he saw nothing in my labs that would suggest any thing was wrong. This is what they tell me when they don't know what the answer is to this lupie condition. I would have rather he said that he just didn't know what was going on at this time but he would continue looking . Anyway.............the weather has changed and I'm pretty much staying in because I'll catch pneumonia if I get out in the cold sweating this way.

[millykitty]

there is a clear deo thing argh cant remeber what it is called but i know it is for feet pits, hands not sure for the back or or parts. it is perscription only and it works great even on hands. I hope you find something but definitly do not feel alone it happens to lots of us.
Erin

[tinkerbell222]

I think it's called drysol. I used it for a while. Can't wear it on your face. I recently went to the rheumy and he increased my cymbalta which did the trick. I am so happy. I am now taking 90mgs once a day. I asked him for some homorme replacemant therapy, he said no way because lupus has something to do with women hormones. I said, "well some men have it", He said, "very few", which is true.