A question for Doctors?!
Question: The past three nights I have been having severe night sweats and really bad body aches. I would assume this is the flu except I don't have the same symptoms during the day and seem to be okay in the morning except for the body aches. Also when i usually get the flu i have a really bad throat ache and cough, but that hasnt happened. When i go to lay down at night i wake up in the middle of the night feeling like my skin is burning off, but if I get out from under the covers my body feels like it will freeze. I had a temperature of 100 degrees around 9pm last night before bed. Can you give any explanation for this? Is this the Flu?
Answers: The past three nights I have been having severe night sweats and really bad body aches. I would assume this is the flu except I don't have the same symptoms during the day and seem to be okay in the morning except for the body aches. Also when i usually get the flu i have a really bad throat ache and cough, but that hasnt happened. When i go to lay down at night i wake up in the middle of the night feeling like my skin is burning off, but if I get out from under the covers my body feels like it will freeze. I had a temperature of 100 degrees around 9pm last night before bed. Can you give any explanation for this? Is this the Flu?
Plain night sweats or hyperdriosis might be due to menopause or the homonal imbalance associated with menstrual cycles. However, it usually doesn't involve body aches. A temperature of 100 for an adult is considered high. I strongly suspect that you have the beginning symptoms of the flu esp if you also have the chills.
Still another cause would be Tuberculosis or TB and the Valley Fever. which involve mostly night sweats, generalized body aches; joint aches; chills and fever.
Try the sites below for more info on these two illnesses:
http://www.emedicine.com/aaem/topic193.h...
http://www.cnn.com/HEALTH/library/DS/006...
for this fever you have to do blood culture to see if you have infection. if you have cough it might be TB. you should see a doctor and do check up.