Sweating
Sometimes I learn a lot about what people are curious about by reading the keywords that they typed into a search engine like Google or Yahoo that eventually brought them to this site. I noticed yesterday that someone had done a search on the words lupus, dizziness, and sweating.
I noticed this immediately because it is something my wife has had trouble with for the last month or so. Typically, the sweating comes first and the dizziness follows a bit later. Now when she mentions that she’s sweating, I try and get her to sit down and rest.
The sweating thing is relatively new for her. Obviously someone else with lupus is experiencing the same symptoms, so I thought I would throw it out there for discussion.
On an unrelated note, I’ve swapped out my old polling plugin for a new one, and should have a new poll up soon. This plugin is a lot more powerful and flexible, but requires more extensive setup.
The night sweats I got used too, but the sweating during the day for no apparent reason is driving me crazy. It just started recently and I can’t find a common trigger. It always happens when I am giving a public presentation for work. And no, it isn’t nerves, I’ve been public speaking for 20 years. I actually carry one of my grandfathers old handkerchiefs in my pocket when I’m presenting so that I can (hopefully) inconspicously dab the droplets before they start running down my face and become blatantly obvious to my audience. It happens at random other times too, even when the AC in my office has me shivering. Can’t figure that one out. I haven’t experienced the dizziness in conjunction. Though I do get the dizzies at least once a day. I would love a definite explanation but chalk it up to one of the countless medications interacting with either my body or one of the other countless medications. I look at some of the other side effects that I could be experiencing from all of these chemicals and think that, while VERY annoying, they are managable. I’ll take them over some of the others.
My wife has the same problem with sweating. She is a nurse and very knowledgeable with lupus since herself is a lupus patient. She think sweating is caused by the medication pramosone. It also increase her heartbeat a lot. Her pulse is somewhere above 110.
hi well i get the sweats i wake with the back of my neck soaked i am currently on no meds 4 lupus so the blame on the meds does not sit well with me