I get a red warm face when I am overheated the least little bit from my rosacea.I've gotten some sweating fits from perimenopause as well.

 

If it happens when you're hungry, it might be a symptom you're hypoglycemic. Does it get better after you eat? Do you have any other symptoms at the same time? Do you ever get shaky, tremble, feel weak, or get dizzy at the same time?

 

I was actually checked for hypoclycemia and I don't have it.When the sweating hits from fasting then I break out in a cold sweat and semi-faint and the I think eating helps.However, sometimes the sweating attack comes out of nowhere with no additional symptoms and nothings alleviates it but the passage of time.

 

Does the semi-faint get a lot better if you lie down, at least while you are down?

 

this happens to me after i drank some sweet coffee too quickly. i would get red hot, sweaty all over and shakey. it would only last about 10 minutes but it would really freak me out. it still happens now if i shotgun a sweet coffee. i have no idea why. cheersIan

 

You're not alone, I know exactly what you mean. I get hot, start sweating and feel like I'm going to faint. This is followed by the urgency of having a bowel movement. It's automatic. As soon as I have a bowel movement, the symptoms subside. I haven't always been close to a bathroom when this happens. It's quite traumatic...!!

 

Yes K, the semi-faint is tolerable when I'm lying down and in any case, just like the sweating eventually subsides after 5-10 minutes.From everyone's stories it sounds like there is a connection there with the digestive system playing on other factors,but besides the fasting which definitely brings on a hot-cold sweat version of it, I don't know what the trigger is in my case.

 

Usually if the semi-faint (or even full faint) gets better when you lay down that tends to indicate a vaso-vagal response.http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/vasovagal-syncope/DS00806Abdominal pain, having a BM, swallowing something wrong are all things that can set it off.

 

Yep, I was going to say the same thing. Sounds like a vasovagal response. We just had another member who went to the doctor for something similar. Here's the thread on that: http://www.ibsgroup.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=109014Seems like we're hearing this from a lot more people recently, so it definitely isn't uncommon.

 

Thanks guys! How is this related (if at all) to my IBS-C?Or is it a separate unrelated condition altogether?

 

It is a separate thing, but it can be triggered by IBS symptoms like abdominal pain (but can be triggered by other things as well).Some people are just lucky enough to have both.

 

I get this and the palm of my hands go read with it especially after i eat anything with tomato in it....

 

I get extended hot flash like feelings (and I'm a guy) similar to what you are describing. They seem mostly to occur in the evening, when I'm the most bloated/distended. I think it has something to do with my intestines being more full in the evening since I mostly go in the morning. On the rare occasions that I have been able to have a bowel movement in the evenings, my overheated feeling can instantly change to that of feeling cold. The overheated feeling gives me really bad nightsweats as well. I wish there was some safe way to make myself go every evening since I know the stool is right there, but there is just no evening peristaltic reflex like there is in the morning.

 

I also get night sweats.I'm conviced this is all somehow related to the digestive system struggling to do it's job in some way.

 

I too get hot flushes-often mid to late evening. Had put it down to mid life and computer on my lap-looking for miracle cure!

 

Personally when I have those symptoms it means that I'm having a anxiety attack.

 

Hot / Spicey Mexican Food makes me sweat. That inturn will cause diarrhea. IBS aggrivation trigger food. Taste's good though

 

ive got sort of the same thing. whenever i get an "attack" my face gets really hot and i start sweating although my body is cold and i have uncontrollable shaking all over. im also very nauseated when this happens. mine could be anxiety, but i often wondered if it happens to anyone else and if its ibs related.