bittyhorse23
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I used to wait for my body to kick the cold itself but the past 6 months I haven't done that because well I just can't anymore. I need a little help. With age comes less resilience to these things <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-sad.gif" border="0"> I would call again and see if they can give you something stronger to help fight it off. If that doesn't work, you may need to go in and get the big guns.
As for the night sweats, I sometimes wake up drenched too! I don't normally run fevers though, but I get hot so much! I keep my house at 60 during the winter (I live outside of Philadelphia) because otherwise I just sweat my tush off. My bedroom is even colder, at 55, because if it gets any hotter its stiffling to me. I would have to say the nights sweats are your body trying to fight this off. Especially if you switch to a lighter blanket and still sweat badly. One thing that works for me which I think is SO weird is I make sure I have long pants on. I can sleep in a tank top but I sweat a whole lot less if my bare legs don't tough each other. It is very weird but once I caught on and started wearing pants to bed instead of shorts I stopped waking up drenched as much. I still do sometimes but not nearly as often as before.
Sorry I couldn't help more but I hope it helped a little
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I used to wait for my body to kick the cold itself but the past 6 months I haven't done that because well I just can't anymore. I need a little help. With age comes less resilience to these things <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-sad.gif" border="0"> I would call again and see if they can give you something stronger to help fight it off. If that doesn't work, you may need to go in and get the big guns.
As for the night sweats, I sometimes wake up drenched too! I don't normally run fevers though, but I get hot so much! I keep my house at 60 during the winter (I live outside of Philadelphia) because otherwise I just sweat my tush off. My bedroom is even colder, at 55, because if it gets any hotter its stiffling to me. I would have to say the nights sweats are your body trying to fight this off. Especially if you switch to a lighter blanket and still sweat badly. One thing that works for me which I think is SO weird is I make sure I have long pants on. I can sleep in a tank top but I sweat a whole lot less if my bare legs don't tough each other. It is very weird but once I caught on and started wearing pants to bed instead of shorts I stopped waking up drenched as much. I still do sometimes but not nearly as often as before.
Sorry I couldn't help more but I hope it helped a little
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