Chills
Once again, I thought it was common for all people to become chilled if you worked out in the heat for any length of time. I thought, “I suppose everyone must quit what they are doing, retreat, cool down, drink water before returning to whatever they were doing.”
There may be truth to those thoughts but, as I look back over my life, I wonder now. When I gave birth to our younger son, I experienced fainting and chills. I must have fainted shortly after he was born because I do not recall them inserting the IV. When I asked why it is there, the doctor only said, “It is necessary”. About the time they got me to a private room that I developed severe chills.
Sometime during that night a nurse wakes me, gets me up, takes me to the bathroom to empty the bladder. I faint on her while sitting on the toilet.
I don’t have answers. I simply share some of my experiences so that anyone who is reading this may have a ‘lightbulb’ moment and say, “That happened to me. Perhaps, like Maisie, it is a symptom of Sjogren’s Syndrome.”
As of now, in 2021, I am making the possible association between my chills and Sjogren’s Syndrome. I know when I awake during the night and I’m cold it’s not because I don’t have sufficient covering, it is because my body is not producing heat. It is my body’s way of saying, “You won’t be getting any more sleep tonight if you don’t get hydrated.” Once I get sufficiently hydrated, then I am able to produce heat and get back to sleep.
NOTE: During the eight years of intensive detoxing, many times I would experience ‘sweats’ immediately followed by ‘chills’. One of many things I have questions about but no answers.