My husband's temp also gets extremely hot while he sleeps. I think it is because of the chemicals that he works around and that he works in extremely high heat, like 130 degree temps. However, it also turned out that he had hypertension and his blood pressure rises a lot when he gets hotter. Also perhaps you are having high aniexty. Hope this helps.

I have this, too. It actually started for me after getting lipo a few years ago. I don't know if that is related, but my husband complains about how hot I get while I am sleeping and sometimes I wake up with a headache. I would love to hear why it happens since I am starting to get very concerned. I read that a thyroid test might help, so I am going to see if that is the cause.

Hello,
my boyfriend gets severe nightsweats and his body temperature is extremely high while he sleeps. Even if the room temperature is at 68F and without a blanket he sweats excessivley. He gets so warm at night that even I start to sweat, which I never do while sleeping. This makes it very difficult to get a goodnights rest when he stays over but more importantly I am concerned about his health. He recently started on blood pressure medication, which keeps his bp in the normal range. Otherwise he is a very fit and healthy person.
Does anyone know what the possible causes could be and how to solve this problem?

Hello all, I see there are plenty of people that are familiar with this, but no one has answers huh? TammyokCity...everything you described...my husband goes through. I decided to Google it, and came across your posting. He sweats profusely at night time and during the day he never sweats. We live in FL and I sweat the minute I walk out the door. He does labor work in 95 degree weather and doesn’t sweat. Come night time when it’s 70 degrees, under a blanket, with barely any cloth on, he gets so hot, and sweats so bad, that in the middle of the night he has to put a towel underneath him.

Hopefully someone will post some answers soon. Thank you for sharing.

Mine does as well. As a matter of fact, this morning I woke up and could actually feel the heat, and had to turn the temperature down a few degrees until I cooled off. I have had my ex husband and a previous boyfriend say I generated so much heat, I must be sick. Every thing I have googled has said body temp decreases during sleep. Mine doesnt though. Have no idea why. While I am older, this isnt night menopausal sweats since I have been this way since I can remember. I guess I will still keep looking. My heat was so high this morning, I decided to google again and found these posts!

This same thing happens to me just about every night. My fiance likes to tell me that I go "radioactive" at night as soon as I fall asleep. I have no clue what causes it and I came across this forum when I was trying to get some ideas...

The strange thing about it is that I am actually a very cold natured person. I take very hot showers that to me seem luke-warm & comfy but to my fiance is scalding & painful. I will even wear a sweater jacket in 70-degree weather.

But as soon as I go to sleep, my body temperature just skyrockets. My fiance says it feels like heat is radiating off my body and sometimes its actually bothersome to him. I will wake up in the middle of the night with all the covers kicked off. I even have to run fans in the room so that I will be able to make it through the entire night comfortably, otherwise I'll wake up numerous times due to feeling so hot.

Does anyone have any clue what this is from? And what can stop it? I've never mentioned it to a doctor before, but maybe someone out there has found a solution?

Hi, I'm so glad I came across your post as I'm starting to realize how bad my sleep actually is. I've known for a few years that my temperature rises during my sleep, but I thought that was normal. It seems like I just accumulate and store heat, though, and throughout the night it just keeps getting hotter. In the winter, I'll wake up sweating and throw off the covers, then get incredible chills from the cold air hitting the water on my skin. Throughout most of the year, though, I just wake up and can't fall back asleep, alternating between throwing off and pulling on covers.

I also have some other body heat problems, namely I am constantly cold and have to wear socks or else my toenails turn light blue. My hands are constantly icy to touch and my fingernails are pretty much always light blue unless I'm exercising, showering, etc. Furthermore, I seem to overheat easily and not just while I sleep. For instance, if I'm late in the morning and I have to run for 30 seconds or so to try to catch a train to work, I overheat and sweat and feel the flush go all the way up to my head. The thing is, I am so sweaty I have to either take off clothing or use my shirt to fan myself to try to dry the sweat. After just 30 seconds of running, it takes me 10-20 minutes before I return to a comfortable temperature and stop feeling flushed.

A lot of people on this thread have posted similar overheating problems, but who has some solutions? What is going on with my body and how can I change it???

Hi all, I'm so glad I came across this forum although no clear answer has been posted yet. I just went to the walk-in clinic this morning because of my UTI problem. I really think it has a lot to do with my overheating body temperature during sleep. I'm usually very cold, and take extremely hot showers. However, after I fall asleep, my body temperature seems to just keep rising. My husband has complained about this. He usually feels hot, and would sweat immediately anywhere above 25 degree Celsius. I on the other hand, never sweat even though my skin feels way hotter to the touch than his. If I try to lift the blanket to cool down, I feel extremely cold as soon as my skin is exposed to the air at room temperature. I mentioned this to the doctor this morning, and he said it's a body defense mechanicsm. I guess he tried to say that things like fevers or increased body temperature is a warning to infections and such. However, I've had this problem forever and I can't possibly have infections all the time. Anyway, he told me to measure my body temperature when I wake up in the middle of the night, and if it's clearly higher than other time of the day, then there's something wrong with my body. I can't wait to find out what it is.

I am happy I came across this thread as well. I also get very hot and usually sweaty when I sleep. Even just being in bed watching TV with my husband I start to get hot. I never noticed it until my now husband said something awhile ago. I have always lived with it and thought it was normal until he kept telling me there was something wrong with me. Other than that, I am a normal, healthy 22 year old with no other complaints. I wonder what it is that makes us hot like this?

Hi! My husband started having sweats some years ago. Usually at night, but sometimes during the day too, especially first thing in the morning when he's trying to get ready. We traced it down to an overgrowth of yeast problem. The fermentation of sugars in his body causes his temperature to rise. He went on a very low sugar diet and anti yeast programme and it cleared up for a good while. Whenever he doesn't watch his diet and drinks more alcohol and eats more sweet things it comes back again.

Hello Tammyokcity,

I found your posting while searching for answers...it's now 2am in the morning after waking up beside my wife. I'm unable to return to sleep beside her due to her extreamly high radiant body heat, identical symptoms to your's.

She's been like it since I can remember, over 30 years. She never sweats but at times I swear that I could cook an egg on her. At times I think she's going to spontanious combust.
It's pitty that to date nobody has been able to provided you with answers. Anyway if ever you do find out I'd love to hear from you, as I always worry that my wifes symptoms could be a sign of something that's going to harm her in years to come...if not I'm sure that one night she's gonna cook me.

Regards,

James

THERE ARE MULTIPLE POSSIBLITIES THAT CAN CAUSE HIGH BODY TEMP WHILE SLEEPING, there is a possibility of a hypothalamic tumor or disregulation (part of your brain that controls body temp) if you refer to sleep apnea...individuals stop breathing while asleep, well this is similar except your hypothalamus may be forgetting to regulate body temp. there is also a possibilty that infection has gotten into the blood stream, i would ask for a CBC (complete blood count), if inconclusive, maybe an MRI to rule out brain lesions or misfiring synapses of autonomic nervous system functions, another possibility is just simply you may needto try cold wash cloths on the head just before bed, drink a lot of water to ensure you arent dehydrated sorry if this doesnt help but keep me posted this is very interesting to me

Hi everybody,

I have the same thing. My body temperature rises when I fall asleep. If I can't get warm enough, I can't fall asleep. But I only noticed how warm I get, after somebody else mentioned it to me. I don’t kick my covers off and I don’t wake during the night.

Sorry, I don't have any answers either. It’s very likely, that there is more than one possible cause for this. But I think, that people, who get warmer when they fall asleep often have cold hands and/or feet, love long hot showers and have less problems during hot summer days than in the winter. Does this apply to you (your spouse/boyfriend/…)? Because it definitely does for me.

I don’t think that this temperature rise is a fever that the body uses to fight infection. That would mean that we are permanently fighting some infection for the last x years.
I don’t want to believe, that I have a tumor in my head either…
One of my theories is (in case this does have something to do with cold hands and feet), that the body needs to raise the temperature of the hands and feet so they are as warm as the torso, or maybe even warmer. And after they are warm enough, maybe the torso starts to cool down.
Did anybody try measuring the temperature of the torso, the hands, in the mouth, maybe even in the rectum at different times? To see how the temperature evolves when we start to fall asleep and when we sleep. Even better would be a thermo-picture, if one could borrow a thermo-camera somewhere. I’ve been planning to do this for a long time, but never really tried it.

What is your experience?
As many others I’m really glad I found this discussion. So if you find any info on this topic, don’t forget to post it here.

Well, interestingly enough I also don't have an answer but do have the basic symptom of rising body temperature during sleep. My ex told me my body would typically start to radiate heat about half an hour after falling asleep. He liked it in the winter, but not in the summer. This is a consistent part of my life without any correlating ill health.

Anyways, the post about cold hands and feet touched on what I've been pondering lately... which is, what if it's just that during the day we're stressed enough to cause circulation problems (hence the cold hands and feet) and at night our bodies relax enough to reverse that? Or, I've heard of people who do "energy healing" where their hands actually radiate heat while either giving a massage, Qi Gong, or hands-off healing. Maybe it has something to do with the physical process involved with transmitting energy?

As others, I have no answers. Interesting that I've just now become curious enough about it to Google it and came across this post.

I too have the extreme heat during sleep and then I'm cold the rest of the day. I don't know what the cause of this is. However, a few people have mentioned severe night sweats. Night sweats are a sign that something could be seriously wrong. Anyone who has night sweats where they are drenched in the morning MUST see a doctor. For the rest of us, i have no idea what the issue is.

I get extremly hot during the night I mostly do not realize it but my husband has been tellin me that I got hot for years now. I unlike others that I have read do not sweat. I am a diabetic so I have no idea if my blood sugars have anything to do with it. I have never asked my doctor but now that I have read how many people get high temps at night I plan on asking.

I also get very "heated" at night. My husband is nice enough to get the blanket off my back at night and cool me down before I get to bad (as some nights are)...I also experience hair loss and growth where this was not an issue before.
I have had the full panel of Hormone, thyroid and hypothalmus tests and CBC Blood work, I was thinking it was a result of a hysterectomy in 2007. However "NO!" is the answer I get from the Dr's because I am still in my 20's and considered to be in good health....I'm frusterated with a lack of information in this department and not knowing what is happening..so in my desperate need for answers (not only for me but for my patient husband) am seeing the Dr once again today to find out more answers (hopefully) if any possibilities come up I will share.
I'm glad this is not an isolated issue. Thanks to everyone for sharing.

I also have had the problem for some time now. I go to bed cold and wake up warm 2 to 4 hours later and then can't go back to sleep for a couple of hours. Which on the weekends isn't quite the problem that it is during the week. I have been to sleep doctors regular doctors had every manner of test done. The one phrase I saw I on a similar forum is "I am so tired of being tired". I am in my late 40's and am really hoping I won't have to live like this till I die.