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Cynth6
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8 years ago

Sweating alot

hi ladies,

when i I was going through chemo I did have hot flushes. I hardly get them anymore now but I've noticed I'm sweating a lot and very easily ! I'm now 4 months post chemo. 
Has anyone else had this problem ? I still wear a wig but even without my wig and my very short hair, I still sweat. I am back at work now and being a vet nurse I do sweat a lot. But even the smal things like putting on my makeup and I break into a big sweat. It's becoming embarrassing now 

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  • my scalp & face break out in a sweat now from just doing the basic of things, but i'm 3/4 of my way through radiation, so blamed it on that
  • I found chemo elevated my all round body temperature, so much so that I was happy all through winter standing stark naked in the bathroom, window open, we don't have a heater, slathering on cream all over my body. Normally I would leap shivering from a very hot shower and towel quickly before dressing in very warm jammies. It took a good 6 months for me to start to feel remotely cool enough for a jacket at times. 
    I have also found that I now sweat through my head, which I never noticed doing before, hot flushes are pretty bad, especially if I get hot or stressed, and I get a hot sweaty prickly head.
    I am also on medication that has always restricted my sweating, but now I feel it running down my back. 
    I am finding I have to get to know a whole new me post treatment.
  • Hi there love. I hardly get hot flushes anymore either but do get sweaty from time to time or just feel hot without the “hot flush” symptoms. At night I have to have the aircon on and sleep with no covers pretty much all night just the doona between my legs up to my chest but at the very least I have to have my back exposed and uncovered and only undies to bed. During the day at work the air con is on in the treatment room and it’s super cold which I love and just don’t feel cold hardly ever these days.  Margie xx





  • Hey @Cynth6 I break into sweats frequently, any weather. I still get horrid hot flushes, though, which started during chemo and have increased with tamoxifen and palbociclib. My skin also flushes red, so, yeah, embarassing! Strangely, I don't sweat from my right armpit since my mastectomy and node clearance, but profusely from the left (healthy) armpit, as well as everywhere else. I imagine your sweats are hormonal... milder hot flushes. Hope it settles soon.