As if getting decent sleep weren't hard enough with fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome, many of us get random temperature swings that can cause us to wake up overheated or sweating like crazy.
I recently got to test a product designed to help with that. The makers of In Balance sheets say the special fabric in these sheets is aimed at "balancing temperature swings" to make you sleep more comfortably.
I've always been a hot sleeper, and since developing fibromyalgia I usually go to bed freezing and end up too hot. I was curious to see how these sheets worked, and I have to say I was pleasantly surprised. You can read my review here:
- In Balance Sheets, by Sleep Number
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How interesting – I often wake up really hot but not sweating…
Since you mentioned being hot and cold in bed, maybe someone could help me with this…
I always go to bed freezing and then get too hot once my feet finally get warm (with a hot water bottle).
My feet are permanently cold, no matter how hot the weather, no matter how thick the socks and boots or slippers? My hands are often cold, but can also be warm, but my feet remain frozen. Once cold, they can’t warm up by themselves. I’m not diabetic, don’t have Reynaud’s disease but I do have moderate-severe CF with pain on/off.
And once my feet get TOO hot in bed, they drive me crazy, as though they are being tickled on the inside but in a painful way. My legs aren’t affected so I don’t think it is Restless Legs, just the soles of my feet. I have to kick them about to try to relieve this sensation but it breaks my sleep which just adds to the fatigue the next day. Does anyone else have experience of this and any ideas of what might help?
From Adrienne: My feet are a lot like yours! I frequently have to take off my socks or slippers and warm them up, because my feet make them so cold. When they get too hot in bed, they ache and sometimes itch, but it sounds milder than what you go through. What helps me is warming up my feet before going to bed, like with a heated rice bag, then letting them cool off again (even sticking them out of the covers sometimes.) That seems to keep them from overheating.
I’m having what I call a fibro attack now. Coming down from freezing cold and now with a temp of 38.3 c. (Set off from air conditioning at the movies…..far too cold….should have had the heater on instead….symptoms.. Blue lips…tremors and joint pain…even lung pain.
The only way to deal with them is to get warm really fast, wheat bag and layers of clothes and drink heaps of warm drinks….go with the rigors…move around…. then after 3 hours you start to sweat and feel exhausted….layers come off slowly.
I’ve had so many this winter I’ve lost count but I’m fed up.Does anyone else have these weird attacks? Wouldn’t wish them on my worst enemy. Jo.
imRjz2 Very true! Makes a change to see someone spell it out like that.