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Post Covid sweating: Is this common for others too?

Posted by dr4bama @dr4bama, Jul 14, 2022

I am experiencing profuse sweating off during the day and nightly. Is this common post Covid?

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mickey333 | @mickey333 | Jan 17, 2023

Is profuse sweating months after recovering from COVID a normal side effect?

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Colleen Young, Connect Director | @colleenyoung | Jan 17, 2023
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@mickey333

Is profuse sweating months after recovering from COVID a normal side effect?

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@mickey333, you are not alone. I've moved your message about profuse sweating after COVID recovery to this existing discussion so you can connect with other members easily:
- Post Covid sweating: Is this common for others too?: https://connect.mayoclinic.org/discussion/post-covid-sweating/

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wjc | @wjc | Jan 18, 2023

I find it peculiar that there is a lack of information on how to treat the "night sweats" symptom after an Omicron B.A 5 infection. This symptom can be quite irritating, so I decided to try traditional Chinese medicine as a remedy. Fortunately, it proved to be very effective for me. The prescription was 8g of ginseng, 10g of ophiopogon, and 3g of schisandra, to be decocted twice and taken twice daily, with two doses per day.

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fraziely | @fraziely | Jan 19, 2023
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@lannisolochek

Hi @dr4bama - welcome to Mayo Clinic Connect.

Sweating does seem to be a pretty common side effect of COVID-19, unfortunately. I know it can get very uncomfortable throughout the day!
Others have discussed ongoing fevers with sweating as a side effect on this discussion post, you may find it helpful to read through:
- Fevers weeks after COVID: Is this common with long COVID? https://connect.mayoclinic.org/discussion/fevers-weeks-after-covid/

Have you continued to have a fever at all in your recovery? Have any other symptoms continued?

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I don't have a fever but I continually break out in a cold sweat. I'm hot, then I'm cold. But the worst is this horrid cough I can't seem to get rid of. Had it for a month now.

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brenxoo | @brenxoo | Jan 25, 2023
In reply to @dianecox "Hello— I’ve now had Covid twice. (immunocompromised: — Lupus, PsA, AI Pancreatitis/EPI , Asthma). I’m considered..." + (show)
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Hello— I’ve now had Covid twice. (immunocompromised: — Lupus, PsA, AI Pancreatitis/EPI , Asthma). I’m considered a Long Covid patient— contracted the first case early 2020 & still have some ongoing issues. One thing that doesn’t get better is the body temp disregulation. I get sudden onset extreme heat intolerance. I get no warning. It happens periodically & day/night. It’s to the point that it’s so profound I sometimes have to quickly remove my clothing. But what’s absolutely terrible is the profound night sweats. This has been going on for over 14 months now. It wakes me up several times a night. Sometimes it’s my entire body—literally head to toe. I wake up drenched in sweat, and my body is hot to the touch. Even this past winter—when the night temps get to 20•, I turned the heat off, opened my bedroom window, had light covers on. No relief. It’s unbearable. Doctors here (NM) have performed so many tests. They keep saying that it’s not related to female hormonal changes & no obvious signs of Thyroid disease . (I have had significant vascular & neurological changes since Covid diagnoses.) They can’t figure it out. One suggested that perhaps it’s related to Long Covid. I’m just exasperated & need answers

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So weird me too! I never had COVID before this week! I have RA, had all 4 COVID shots. Last one made me so sick never again! Felt like a month of an RA flair. I have spinal stenosis in my cervical spine for years .
I also have hypersomnia , it’s a sleep disorder, similar to narcolepsy which my mom had.
Any way I’m almost 56, my mother would always laugh and say I don’t get why you never sweat!? I really hardly ever did! Then I hit I guess 51/52, and now it just pours out. It’s horrible and so annoying! I know it sounds like wow not a big deal sweating. But it SUCKS! Lol! I love to read and research things. I just read recently because I am having cervical spine surgery in February that when your spine is damaged in any way that can make you sweat and your body temps be off. I’ll let you know after surgery if it goes away? Not sure because I also read that a lot of damage from my stenosis like hand numbness/nerve damage most likey will still be there the doctor said because like the brain , the spine can be fixed but damage can not. I would rather the sweating stop then the numbness. I can’t stand it. Good luck to you

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barbara9 | @barbara9 | Jan 26, 2023

I got covid and then post covid symptoms are severe headaches, sweating,,lack. Of sleep, RA in spine and shoulders

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mark3240 | @mark3240 | Jan 27, 2023
In reply to @dianecox "Hello— I’ve now had Covid twice. (immunocompromised: — Lupus, PsA, AI Pancreatitis/EPI , Asthma). I’m considered..." + (show)
@dianecox

Hello— I’ve now had Covid twice. (immunocompromised: — Lupus, PsA, AI Pancreatitis/EPI , Asthma). I’m considered a Long Covid patient— contracted the first case early 2020 & still have some ongoing issues. One thing that doesn’t get better is the body temp disregulation. I get sudden onset extreme heat intolerance. I get no warning. It happens periodically & day/night. It’s to the point that it’s so profound I sometimes have to quickly remove my clothing. But what’s absolutely terrible is the profound night sweats. This has been going on for over 14 months now. It wakes me up several times a night. Sometimes it’s my entire body—literally head to toe. I wake up drenched in sweat, and my body is hot to the touch. Even this past winter—when the night temps get to 20•, I turned the heat off, opened my bedroom window, had light covers on. No relief. It’s unbearable. Doctors here (NM) have performed so many tests. They keep saying that it’s not related to female hormonal changes & no obvious signs of Thyroid disease . (I have had significant vascular & neurological changes since Covid diagnoses.) They can’t figure it out. One suggested that perhaps it’s related to Long Covid. I’m just exasperated & need answers

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Same experience with Long Covid. Sweating worse at night, but sole of feet all the time. Unpleasant, for damp and wet pajamas' moisture dries in the dry winter air. Result is coldness and clamminess-- very unpleasant. Must change pajamas, interrupting sleep.

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jaime225 | @jaime225 | Jan 30, 2023
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@beachnut

It's been nearly 3 months since I had a fairly mild case of Covid. Since then, if I am in a setting with the least increase in temperature, I will start sweating profusely. No exertion required. I can be just sitting or standing outside talking to other "normal" people not sweating at all, & sweat will start just pouring down my face. Very aggravating. (I have also noticed worsening of my life-long tinnitus, plus some occasional balance issues when I turn quickly, but have no idea if they are related. )

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i have tinnunitis to was so bad last few days from covid 19

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orlanda | @orlanda | Jan 30, 2023
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@fraziely

I don't have a fever but I continually break out in a cold sweat. I'm hot, then I'm cold. But the worst is this horrid cough I can't seem to get rid of. Had it for a month now.

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Me too. Am using an asthma medication and cough is going away.

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orlanda | @orlanda | Jan 30, 2023
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@mark3240

Same experience with Long Covid. Sweating worse at night, but sole of feet all the time. Unpleasant, for damp and wet pajamas' moisture dries in the dry winter air. Result is coldness and clamminess-- very unpleasant. Must change pajamas, interrupting sleep.

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I have sweating usually at night and it is not associated to menopause. Sometimes am very cold in a warm house and other times hot. At night put on covers and then fall asleep only to awaken and throw all covers off.
This is a post symptom of COVID_ Omicron. [Or so I was told by an Infectious Disease specialist]. She thinks it will last 6 o 10 months or until our body can reduce the inflammation
Wishing you better days ahead.

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