Nocturnal Sweating - Clubhouse

Xerxes

09/09/2002 at 11:50

Anyone else?
Cures?
Running related?

Redhead

09/09/2002 at 12:30

Hey Tim,

We girls do tend to get night sweats around menstruation time as your body temperature rises just before your period starts. Older women get the same around the menopause.

Shouldn't think it's running related.

Xerxes

09/09/2002 at 12:32

Ummmm I'm not sure that's my problem...

Redhead

09/09/2002 at 12:37

Sorry Tim, thought you meant your wife was having night sweats! If it's you then you've probably got a guilty consceince!!!!
Only joking ;-)

SlowJo Rodriguez

09/09/2002 at 12:37

Perhaps she just has the hots for you ...

:-P

Xerxes

09/09/2002 at 12:39

SR - no doubt about that.

Anyway to clarify it is me who is lying in a puddle in the morning, with my wife valiantly putting up with the creeping seepage.

DavidA

09/09/2002 at 12:41

try cold shower before bed, read a book about icebergs just before lights out, if that fails dream about chunks of ice jumping over fences!!!

AmandaP

09/09/2002 at 12:44

Are you a duvet man or a sheets-and-blanket man? (What a personal question!)

Try just have a sheet on its own, or a really lightweight duvet.

What about - er - what clothes you sleep in? (I can sense this thread could go off at a tangent if we're not careful....)

DavidA

09/09/2002 at 12:47

think Amanda p has a point here, think your duffle coat, tog 15 duvet, heating on full blast late night curry are not helping. though they do say that no matter how much u run/how fit u r people still sweat almost same as before??

Xerxes

09/09/2002 at 12:52

Wife likes to be warm therefore duvet (why are women's feet and bums like ice all of the time?). Could be another millon in the invention of a dual duvet with oneside thin and the other thick...?

I wear a pair of boxers in bed (for as short a time as possible).

AmandaP

09/09/2002 at 13:02

Do what we do - two single duvets - Mr P gets the thick duvet with extra blanket(s) on, I get the skinny one (I like having cold feet, I can't bear them covered up by the duvet so I always stick them out at the bottom).

This has the added bonus that I don't get left with one tiny little corner when Mr P has wrapped himself up in the other 95%.....

DavidA

09/09/2002 at 13:09

hmmmmm, think Mr P gets nights out in the pink limo on a regualar basis for quilt stealing!
The problem with sharing duvets is men are hot and women are cold (normally, and only in a sleeping sense), maybe you should try having one of those fans on a stand wirring above your body all night.

neilruns .

09/09/2002 at 13:29

My 4.5-year-old is mostly dry through the night but sometimes she gets "sweaty" - her euphemism for wetting the bed.

Tim, are you trying to tell us something?

Xerxes

09/09/2002 at 13:32

Neil,
(i) are you running Hove 5 Mile.
(ii) I do not think I am peeing myself. Sometimes when I get out of bed, there is a sweat image on the bed with arms and legs well defined, like some murder victim marker.
(iii) I am not a heavy sewater most other times (except when running, when I am my own little Niagara.

Mij

09/09/2002 at 13:43

try sticking your bum out - you'll be suprised how much heat you can radiate that way!

Xerxes

09/09/2002 at 13:45

Mij - is this at night or at all times of the day?

My wife also complains about that aspect of bed-warming, no matter how surreptitious I try to make it.

AmandaP

09/09/2002 at 13:48

Do any of your children join you in bed? I know from experience that they are jolly effective little radiators!

Do you eat too late in the evening? Has this sweating come on suddenly? Do you keep the windows open? If you have really thick curtains in front of open windows, can you pull the curtains back a little to let some fresh air circulate?

I do think you should try the thinner duvet or sheet option as it certainly works for us.

BTW this must make for a lot more washing and ironing for you? Is that why you are doing it at 5am?

neilruns .

09/09/2002 at 13:49

Tim

Re the sweaty image on the bed, is someone sneaking in during the night and tracing you with a sponge? Or maybe you've got some strange form of stigmata? Worth considering.

Neil

Xerxes

09/09/2002 at 13:51

Ironing at 5am was what I used to do prior to taking up running again. Reason is that no little ones, and so safer. Also nice to listen to radio quietly in morning rather than be watching Monsters Inc. for the 10th time (quite good, though!).

I am going to look into two single duvet idea. Seems the most sensible. We did try double sheet with single duvet on missus, but duvet kept sliding off (apparently). Also when missus wakes up and I am a sodden heap she tries to remove duvet, but apparently I am "quite agreessive" in defending it, even whilst asleep...

Xerxes

09/09/2002 at 13:52

Sweaty stigmata. Yes worth considering. I could make some money this way?