Ok...the stripping thing!

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Going to post because other people have said about it in other posts.

But what is it with the stripping ?!?

It never happened to me before when I had seizures 10+ years ago.

But this time round the first time I was having a row with hubby and I got unbearably hot, took all my clothes off but couldn't get them off quick enough tried calling hubby for help but he couldn't understand what I was saying and I honestly felt like I wanted to take my skin off I was that hot. Hubby managed to get me to lie down and then it passed. At the time I didn't even consider it might be seizure related.

I have done it once since, but have had sensations of being suddenly really hot but managed not to strip, but getting worried about doing it at work.

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I don't know if this is epilepsy/seizure related but about a year ago I started waking up covered in sweat and have to take my clothes and the blankets off of me. I don't think I'm having a seizure at the time.

I used to sleep in flannel pjs with 2 down comforters plus sheets on me at night in the winter. Even in the summer (we didn't have air conditioning then) I'd sleep with my lighter pjs, a comforter and sheet.

Then I started waking up as hot as can be, as I said covered in sweat. I'd have to pull off my pjs and only have a sheet on me (I can't sleep unless I have something over me). Now I basically sleep naked with only a sheet and a light blanket on me but I'll still have nights waking up sweating.

We've made no changes in the temperature in the house and we've got air conditioning in the summer but same thing still happens. During the day I can still wear the same clothes that I have every winter and summer without any problems.

There was one summer that I was really hot because of the temperature outside and I had a seizure.

Does this only happen when you and your husband are together doing things (maybe he just got you too hot ;) )or has it happened other times too?
 
Well, I keep telling myself I'm just having menopause hot flashes (since my 30s and for more than a decade), but I also have cold flashes.

I mess around with the thermostat all day/night and change clothes or re-layer and de-layer many times per day/night. I feel like I have no ability to regulate my body temperature but I don't know if that is related to my seizures.
 
I've woken up mornings covered in sweat because I like it warm in the house. I do find it odd because on other nights when it is just as warm, I'm perfect fine. I really doubt mine is seizure related, but I may as well toss it out there. I also don't think I'm going through menopause either. :D

I'd rather wake up sweating than freezing.
 
Thanks all, I did post a response earlier but must have got to press send. Doh!

Valeriedl, I cannot bear to be cold so I am a two duvet gal myself with the thermostat up. So the sudden spikes are strange (and not related to happy adult time *ahem*).

Giveasmile, I confess I do wonder about pre menopausal ness. I am 38 and went through puberty at a very young age so might stand to reason I would hit menopause earlier. I currently have implanon and it stops my cycle so may have to enquire how they might work that out.

N Sperio, it's interesting about how you can wake up hot and sweat covered some nights and not others even when the house is at a similar temperature. Though glad you can rule out menopause, I know even when I am not having nocturnal seizures I throw myself around in bed really violently hubby often wakes me to check and when I wake and it's not a seizure there is much grumbling.

Masterjen, thank you for that link, really useful and actually something I hadn't considered, my mum has hypothyroidism so it's probably something I should explore with my gp as I am never sure what they test for in general run of the mill test.

So many thanks girls and guys for your input lots to think about and more questions for gp and epi nurse.

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I do the same thing. I sleep under lots of covers - I like the weight. The temp in our house is consistent. I don't think it is a menopause thing. They have drawn blood for everything else I figure they must have tested for that too. My thyroid is good; its even been biopsied. Some nights I wake up drenched and others I am fine. Some nights I wake up drenched multiple times. One night when I woke up, it felt like someone was pricking my chest with a pin and only my chest was sweating. Weird.
 
We are looking for medical reasons...perhaps we should consider supernatural too and that we're not all being hag ridden or incubbi / succubi ?!?

Ok it's probably not likely but how cool would that be if it turned up in a sleep study?

Though of course mine mostly happen during the day.

Have been discussing this offline and apparently a friend of a friend had complex partials who would strip, he worked in a B&Q's (DIY store) he solved his problem by padlocking his belt so he couldn't take of his trousers. They say necessity is the mother of invention.

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HA! I have always been 'hot' and rather sleep in the nude. But especially now i find i like to take my clothes off. Nothing sexual, just that i find them restricting i think. 'Embrace the elements' is my motto. is that desire E related?
 
Janus said:
HA! I have always been 'hot' and rather sleep in the nude. But especially now i find i like to take my clothes off. Nothing sexual, just that i find them restricting i think. 'Embrace the elements' is my motto. is that desire E related?
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Same thing with me. I've been sleeping naked so long now that when I do sleep with something on I feel like they are tight on me.

I hate it when someone spends the night because I don't sleep naked then. I have the worst time sleeping because the shirt I've got on feels like it's squeezing my arms and body and strangling me.
 
Same thing with me. in fact; it was a shocker when i spent the night with my girlfriend for the first time. We knew each other well but even though it was the first night together i explained that i sleep nude. She was cool with that. But even now, she is so cold all the time she feels she needs to sleep in clothes and i can't but we're both cool with it.
 
I also go to bed in layers and then occasionally wake up drenched in sweat and have to strip down. I don't think it's seizure activity, I blame the medication. I think it can be a Lamictal side effect, and perhaps some of the other anti-seizure meds can cause it too.
 
Talking of hot and sweaty ...

Does anyones' sweat smell different? I think it might be a medication related thing but my sweat seems to smell oily.

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Sorry, doh! Olive oil.

Thinking on it I didn't notice it before starting the b12, folate and vitamin D my gp has put me on to treat the pernicious anemia. Thought I would be all bright eyed and bushy tailed with these vitamins and I just feel greasy and smell slightly of olive oil.

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I take B12 for my low CBC too, and D as well (though not consistently). But not the folate -- maybe that's the culprit? Also, double check your shampoo/soap/conditioner/skin cream. Some of those can contain unusual oils that tend to linger on your skin and affect your sweat.
 
i use vaseline on my skin, and coconut oil and tea tree oil in my hair, but my sense of smell is burned out, so I have little to no smell what i actually smell like so i may be lucky . the girl can smell like a canine though.
 
Everything else is pomegranate (body products) but I have used the same products for years Body Shop but alas will have to swop as I have discovered that they were bought out by ruddy nestle (and worse the buy out was quite some time ago).

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