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Post Covid sweating: Is this common for others too?
Post-COVID Recovery & COVID-19 | Last Active: Oct 19 8:28pm | Replies (298)Comment receiving replies
Does your sweating come at anytime? Are you drenched as if you got out of a pool? When you sweat are you freezing? And how long does the sweating go one for? How consistent are your sweating episodes? Do you crave salt?
I have no triggers, no warning when the sweating occurs. My heart rate spikes to 120 to 170. The longest the sweating has lasted was 2 hours. When I sweat it literally looks as if I got out of a pool.
JEM
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You are the first post here to mention the accompanying tachycardia...
Long COVID symptom onset 9/11/2020 - I know the exact date because they started literally overnight. As if I was hit by a Mack Truck:
Among a mixed bag of symptoms - mostly heart and lung based, I have what I call "episodes". Whether sitting or standing with little to no exertion, I know one is coming on when I have a wave of nausea immediately followed by a full body flush. Then my heart rate spikes usually up to 120's to as high as 200 (2021). Oddly, though, these episodes are often followed by a drop in heart rate to mid-40's.
They had become fewer and farther between until I had my second COVID infection the first week of March (2023). About 30 days past, all my symptoms worsened in severity. Episodes occuring once or twice a day vs. once every couple of weeks. I was actually surprised to realize how much I had improved, when everything went south again to remind me of how it was. So there is that. I am hoping it won't take another 2 1/2 years to get to better again.
I do experience the body flushes during the night, and strangely upon waking. During the night I grab onto the cold metal of my headboard to cool me down. An old trick I learned during menopause. 😂 It works. Especially if you put the metal in contact with your veins. The blood is cooled and gets quickly carried through your body for an overall cooling effect. Of course sticking your head in the freezer is quite effective also, just not always convenient.
I have gotten a POTS diagnosis. Been through 24 sessions of Cardio-Pulmonary Rehab (monitored low exertion exercise). Breathing classes sponsored by our local Opera. Have been put on a list for Speech Therapy to help with the (quite debilitating) brain fog. I'm not sure I have much to offer you, except that the symptoms do seem to improve over time.
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I didn't know my knee-caps could sweat-pretty perfuse. As far as the heart rate goes, I am better since being on Metoprolol from the cardiologist. I had a '21-day event monitor' on & it documented the runs of tachycardia (a heart rate greater that 100 beats per minute) up to 180 that was disproportionate to my activity. The 'official' diagnosis for me is 'Inappropriate Sinus Tachycardia'.