# night sweats

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/night-sweats/821551>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [September 18, 2018, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/night-sweats/821551 "2018-09-18T20:25:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![fedman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/278dde/32.png) [@fedman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fedman)\
**Post date:** [September 18, 2018, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/night-sweats/821551/1 "2018-09-18T20:25:02Z")

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while de-toxing from alcoholism, I experienced the proverbed “night sweats”, but I wondered why I only got them at night and only when lying down

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**Author:** ![Tim\_T-Bonham.net](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/46a35a/32.png) [@Tim\_T-Bonham.net](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_T-Bonham.net)\
**Post date:** [September 18, 2018, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/night-sweats/821551/2 "2018-09-18T21:38:54Z")

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> [@fedman](#):
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> while de-toxing from alcoholism, I experienced the proverbed “night sweats”, but I wondered why I only got them at night and only when lying down

They seem to be related to your body relaxing & sleeping.

I have them as a symptom of diabetes, and I have sometimes had them occur in the middle of the afternoon – when I have fallen asleep reading in my chair.

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**Author:** ![PoppaSan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/poppasan/32/189_2.png) [@PoppaSan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PoppaSan)\
**Post date:** [September 19, 2018, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/night-sweats/821551/3 "2018-09-19T00:55:28Z")

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> [@Tim\_T-Bonham.net](#):
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> They seem to be related to your body relaxing & sleeping.
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> I have them as a symptom of diabetes, and I have sometimes had them occur in the middle of the afternoon – when I have fallen asleep reading in my chair.

The night sweats were the sign to my PCP to start the blood tests for sugar levels. That and the sugar rush at bedtime from late night sweets. Interesting that my wife noticed the night sweats, I slept through them.

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**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\
**Post date:** [September 19, 2018, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/night-sweats/821551/4 "2018-09-19T23:34:32Z")

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[Moderating]

Medical questions should go in IMHO, not GQ. Moving.