<p>Sweating and heat intolerance is a side effect of radiation therapy. </p>
<p>But has anyone experienced excessive sweating upon exertion and general heat intolerance years later?</p>
<p>I haven’t heard this before-does it matter which part of the body was irradiated,and how large the radiated area is?</p>
<p>I googled the topic and couldn’t find a link between RT and heat intolerance.</p>
<p>I had radiation therapy after breast cancer surgery, and have not had any heat intolerance or excessive sweating…</p>
<p>I can’t speak to the radiation aspect, but heat intolerance can be due to a number of factors, including hyperthyroidism or (if you’re female) just plain old hot flashes.</p>
<p>As booklady mentioned…the joys of perimenopause. I love sitting (and arguing about it) in a highly airconditioned room whilst my kids are wearing sweaters. Am still grateful I don’t have the waking up to change nightwear syndrome so its not (yet) all bad.</p>
<p>No, this is my husband. He had cancer 5 years ago and his abdomen was radiated. He did have some problems with temperature regulation then, but he didn’t complain of it after the treatment. </p>
<p>He’s always sweated a bit, but it’s greatly increased recently. Today, it was pouring off of him ridiculously after he was mowing the lawn. He said he’s also becoming intolerant of heat in general, and he sweats beyond anything normal.</p>
<p>He virtually did nothing this morning. He spent maybe 1.5 hours cutting the lawn and weedwhacking today, and he was completely tired and disinterested in doing anything else the rest of the day. We actually went to a park to have a picnic dinner and he laid down on the bench! </p>
<p>He does have low testosterone levels as a result of the cancer treatment, and I do think he has had symptoms of “andropause” in the past couple of years. I guess for that reason, I blow off a lot of what he says. </p>
<p>But prior to his cancer diagnosis, I had blown off some of his complaints as “hypochondriac”. He had been seeing multiple doctors for various problems, including a urologist, who deals with the area of the body where he had cancer. If I had not googled his symptoms and insisted on an ultrasound, he’d be dead now.</p>
<p>So today, he comes to me likewise compellingly, and I am now wondering if this is normal post-cancer side effects. </p>
<p>He’s going in for a follow up with his urologist, who orders regular CT scans of the lungs and abdomen, and blood work for tumor markers. While he treats cancer of his specific “areas of interest”, I don’t expect that he’d have the training of a oncologist. And the personal physician never really got involved with my husband’s cancer at all, left it to the urologist. </p>
<p>The cure rate of his cancer with the treatment that he received is very high, and he’s passed the 5 year mark for his cancer. But I also know that there is a risk of secondary cancer from the radiation. I believe the CT scans probably radiate too. Maybe I should have him seen by a general oncologist.</p>
<p>Have you tried posting this question on boards where oncologists and other doctors read? I suspect such boards exist, and sometimes people will be very helpful even not knowing you. I had a surgery last summer and posted on a board about what was going on before the surgery and a doctor I’ve never met gave me her fax number to fax the report from my testing and got right back to me with her gut feeling on what was going on and she was right.</p>
<p>I’m sending good wishes for you and your husband.</p>
<p>I am also sending you good wishes. To quote my oncologist: Call me. Every cancer patient is different. No symptoms are the same…If you have any questions…anytime of the day or night. And don’t read the internet for your symptoms/questions/treatments (once diagnosed)…I read the internet (I am no longer quoting my doctor) and had an hysteria fit because of what I read. Turns out, didn’t apply to me. Have your husband call his doctor/internist on Monday.</p>
<p>Excessive sweating at night is a symptom of diabetes.</p>
<p>But other posters are right–ask your doctor and/or post on a board where experts can give you an answer.</p>
<p>But has anyone experienced excessive sweating upon exertion and general heat intolerance years later?</p>
<p>THose things seem to be contradictory.
Sweat is how the body cools itself off- and it is good generally as long as you are drinking fluids and not becoming dehydrated.
Heat intolerance is something I know a little about- because my daughter does not sweat appropriately and it makes her become ill.
I believe her intolerance is part of her neurological quirks, including lacking a sense of smell & being high pain low touch tolerant, but quite a few medications also interfere with regulation of body temperature.</p>
<p>[Your</a> regular medications can cause hyperthermia - The Connecticut Post Online](<a href=“http://www.connpost.com/women/ci_9890519]Your”>http://www.connpost.com/women/ci_9890519)</p>
<p>I am visiting this site for the first time because I googled sweating. Yes, I was irradiated as an experiment in 1990, about. I still cannot handle heat. If I am in dry heat I have little problem, but in an atmosphere of humidity such as a rainy day or spring weather or going from Canada to the Caribbean, I begin to sweat excessively. Add to that movement such as walking not to mention working, then I sweat so badly that I have to change clothes. When gardening I must keep a towel around my neck both to catch the sweat at the neck but also to wipe my face every few minutes. As the years go by, it is getting more excessive. I was irradiated for 2 minutes from T10 to sacrum.</p>