Waking up overnight DRENCHED in sweat

Well the things that people are suggesting are scary, there's no way around that. OP is asking so it's OK to raise them, I'm just not sure that prefacing with not wishing to alarm or scare makes it easier to read.

Drenching night sweats were the main symptom of my Dad’s leukaemia. I have night sweats but I’m peri menopausal. None of us want to scare the OP but we are sharing our personal experiences of night sweats as requested.

OP, you have symptoms for which your doctor hasn’t yet given a diagnosis. I sincerely hope that it’s not anything serious but you need to advocate for yourself and request further investigation. If he/she won’t, request to be seen by a different doctor. x

Covid jabs….when I had the second one I sweat profusely.

How can your post NOT cause alarm?

Not to alarm you but as someone else mentioned it could be a sign of leukaemia. This was one of the symptoms of my partner and we had no idea what was causing it till he went to the GP…

15.5 is high, mine was 16 when I had lymphoma. I'd ask for another blood test and if it's still high get referred to a haematologist for further investigation. Sending hugs either way!

It happens me randomly every 5 years or so, no
meno yet. I personally love it as I’m always freezing. It’s a thrill to feel so hot. I doubt I’ll feel the same about full on menopause.

How strange! I'm the same, soaking wet and freezing cold.. I am a very cheesy person but always have been 🤣

I had similar and it was because I had a cheeseboard left over from a party, so was eating a lot of cheese. I had been going to bed wrapped in a sheet with no pyjamas, so that when I woke up freezing cold and soaking wet, I could take off the sheet and put on dry pyjamas. Even my shins were sweaty 🤮

it didn’t start immediately - as in, I had had a couple of cheese evenings with no trouble, but as soon as I stopped the cheese the sweats stopped. And it’s never happened since.

Op same thing happend to me at age 30. Went from being a person who wore thick heavy pjs and an extra blanket to a night sweater almost over night. At the time I was worried about early menopause and got tested. Negative. Went on to have 3 children , last one when I was 45! I never discovered the reason for this but since then I have had to sleep naked and have night sweats. I am perfectly healthy.

whn I have researched it some people just have different hormonal changes at night.

Please go to another Dr and ask for further testing, a CT ideally to rule out Lymphoma. It can be slow growing and asymptomatic for years and doesn't show up on blood tests in most cases. But elevated white cells and drenching night sweats are classic signs. The others to look out for are fatigue that sleep doesn’t eleviate, unexplained weight loss (or gain in my case), itching skin without an obvious reason, bruising more easily than usual, and several others.

In my case they suspect I had it for years before presenting with more serious symptoms that meant it got picked up.
It very probably isn’t this, but its not unheard of at your age and is something much more easily treated if you catch it earlier, and I know several fellow Lymphoma or Leukaemia sufferers who were fobbed off for years before being taken seriously. Often the only way to diagnose is through CT scans or biopsy.

I’ve had them since age 21. But not as bad as you OP. Autoimmune or arthritis? Never got to the bottom of it!
I hope you get some answers.

If your lymphocytes are higher than normal range then you need a flow cytometry to check for leukaemia/lymphoma.
The blood will be sent to a specialist laboratory.

Can you feel any enlarged lymph nodes?
I know it's been said a few times, but my friend had this and was diagnosed with lymphoma. The first symptoms was night sweats, then she noticed some enlarged lymph nodes in a her groin a few months later.
Hopefully not, but I'd want it ruled out.

Agree it should be investigated
im medical and didn’t fully understand what ‘drenching’ night sweats from the red flag text books were until I had them myself. Mine turned out to be a weird post covid thing but my gp did bloods and a chest xray as first step of investigations

Came on to say the same, I have terrible night sweats when my sugars go below 3 in the night, wake up feeling very jittery too. You used to be able to get a blood sugar reading at the chemist, I'd fast for 12hrs then get one done

@cinnamonrolls3 do not be fobbed off, what you're experiencing necessitates further investigation

Agree with @DisappearingGirl, hodgkin lymphoma can present with the symptoms you describe

I'm the same except my night sweats in not hot, I wake up drenched and freezing cold! Anyone have any ideas??

OP, you are young so I assume you have the NHS app.

Have you looked at the actual blood markers and The ranges and checked them yourself? You shouldn't have to but often on here people find our that they are actually out of range when a GP has said they are in range.

The raised WBC suggests some sort of inflammatory process. Do you have hx of Ibd or bowel issues? Have you checked your boobs for lumps, just in case, this is one sign in breast cancer although very unlikely.

Would chase GP about the hormonal period stuff, do you have a GUM clinic that you can self refer to? Might be quicker depending on how useful your gp is.

Any other medications?

I knew someone who went through the menopause at 29. It happens.

I had a couple of bouts of night sweats in my late 30s / early 40s and I think it was a combination of cyclical hormone fluctuations and stress (wasn’t peri-menopause). However, night sweats were the first and only real symptom of my Dad’s non Hodgkins Lymphoma so should you should get checked - not least because the stress of wondering what the cause is could be prolonging them. There was a blood marker that prompted my Dad’s speedy referral. I can’t remember what it was, but it wasn’t white blood count.

Diabetes can give you night sweats.