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I'm sure the fleece sheets helped, but I wasn't cold at all last night, and almost too warm. I kept one window open until I went to bed after 5am. Maybe those "night-chills" I sometimes get are the opposite of "night-sweats" but somehow also caused by perimenopause.
This page: Night Sweats and Chills in Menopausal Women*
says that chills can be caused by exercising or otherwise getting too warm before going to bed. That wasn't the case for me.
*My browser URL bar chopped the URL off at "night-sweats-and-chills-in-men", which surprised me and made me double-check what I'd been reading about!
This page: Are Premenopausal Cold Flashes a Thing?
says "Cold flashes most commonly run their course fairly quickly and usually pass in a few minutes at most. But in some cases they can last up to 20 minutes."
Mine are usually longer than that. I can be in bed with warm covers for what feels like hours without getting warm. Yet even then, just like in winter, I'm loathe to get out of bed to fetch warmer sheets or blankets, thinking that I'll surely warm up more quickly by staying under the (what ought to be warm enough) covers than getting up and chilling myself even more by doing so.
In the summer, the idea of getting out the electric blanket to warm up my feet just doesn't *seem* right.
So I still don't know if it is related to perimenopause or not.
This page: Night Sweats and Chills in Menopausal Women*
says that chills can be caused by exercising or otherwise getting too warm before going to bed. That wasn't the case for me.
*My browser URL bar chopped the URL off at "night-sweats-and-chills-in-men", which surprised me and made me double-check what I'd been reading about!
This page: Are Premenopausal Cold Flashes a Thing?
says "Cold flashes most commonly run their course fairly quickly and usually pass in a few minutes at most. But in some cases they can last up to 20 minutes."
Mine are usually longer than that. I can be in bed with warm covers for what feels like hours without getting warm. Yet even then, just like in winter, I'm loathe to get out of bed to fetch warmer sheets or blankets, thinking that I'll surely warm up more quickly by staying under the (what ought to be warm enough) covers than getting up and chilling myself even more by doing so.
In the summer, the idea of getting out the electric blanket to warm up my feet just doesn't *seem* right.
So I still don't know if it is related to perimenopause or not.
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Date: 2021-09-04 10:56 pm (UTC)From: