Crazy dripping sweating

bluerose
bluerose Member Posts: 1,104
edited March 2014 in Ovarian Cancer #1
Many of you already know that I have a cyst and node that was discovered by accident in Nov of last year and I have been struggling to get a biopsy. It's small anc the cyst is filled with clear liquid that my docs think is a good sign, the node however is solid.

My question at this point is I am wondering if any of you experienced, before diagnosis or before treatments, ridiculously heavy sweating to the point that your face is literally dripping with sweat - mostly on exertion like just walking around or getting ready in the mornings? I know what night sweats are and they don't happen at night, I had lymphoma years ago as some might remember so I understand that type of sweating. I am on morphine for my back but have been on it awhile and that kind of sweating went after a few months on it. Presently I do have a throat infection which the doc has put me on antibiotics for but I continue to have this horrible sweating. It is soooooo embarassing as I am literally wiping sweat drops from my nose and face. As soon as I wipe them off there they are again, forming that quickly.

Has anyone had that experience? Thanks for your time reading this. Blessings, Bluerose

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  • nancy591
    nancy591 Member Posts: 1,027 Member
    #2
    steroids?
    Are you taking steroids by chance? I recv'd steroids during chemo and I would be drenched but mostly at night.
  • bluerose
    bluerose Member Posts: 1,104
    #3
    nancy591 said:

    steroids?
    Are you taking steroids by chance? I recv'd steroids during chemo and I would be drenched but mostly at night.

    No steriods
    Steroids are about the only thing I'm not on, lol. No new meds and even though I am on morphine for my back I have been on them for 4 years and the sweating part is past, long past so that shouldnt be it. Feel very flulike too and actually I am heading out for the emergency room, with a mask on, and see what they think. I have been seen by one doctor who said I had a throat infection which I probably do as my throat is killing me but that can't be giving me all these symptoms. This sweating is in the absence of a fever too which is odd so I better go get it checked out, sick of feeling sick and dripping wet. Now I am short of breath too and thats' never good.

    Thanks for your help and talk to you soon. Blessings, Bluerose
  • bluerose
    bluerose Member Posts: 1,104
    #4
    bluerose said:

    No steriods
    Steroids are about the only thing I'm not on, lol. No new meds and even though I am on morphine for my back I have been on them for 4 years and the sweating part is past, long past so that shouldnt be it. Feel very flulike too and actually I am heading out for the emergency room, with a mask on, and see what they think. I have been seen by one doctor who said I had a throat infection which I probably do as my throat is killing me but that can't be giving me all these symptoms. This sweating is in the absence of a fever too which is odd so I better go get it checked out, sick of feeling sick and dripping wet. Now I am short of breath too and thats' never good.

    Thanks for your help and talk to you soon. Blessings, Bluerose

    Went to ER
    Spent 7 hours in the ER over the sweating and other flu like symptoms and after many blood tests and a chest xray and ECG came up with nothing. Sigh. Came home and Googled excessive sweating especially head and face and came up with a list of not so funny possible problems, many of which I already have links to. Sigh. I swear if you don't do your homework before you see a doctor you lose half the benefit of the appt or more. If I had that list beforehand, and who would think to do that before going to the ER, Google, I could have suggested the blood tests for things like diabetes, heart issues, lung issues, cancer, blah blah blah and gotten the right tests done.

    I asked the doc if any of my tests were borderline as she said it all looked normal, grrrr as I had major symptoms, and it was only then she went back over them and said 'well your blood pressure is slightly elevated'. BAM, big point for me as in the last 2 years on and off specialists have said that but it was only when I questioned borderline results that she came up with it. Oh brother. Actually I have found that question helpful in most finding appoientments - 'are any results borderline in numbers?', you can detect possible trends that way in many cases.

    Anywho on the way home a cab driver I have come to know was asking me how I was and when I told her about the head sweating she said that she would get checked for diabetes and later I thought to myself, hmm, wouldn't that be amazing if I just spent 7 hours in the ER, even masked probably sucked up the bubonic plague in there, and no diagnosis BUT my cab driver comes up with it? lol. Sheeesh.

    Going to wipe the sweat off my face now, AGAIN. Blessings, Bluerose

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