Causes of Cold Sweats
Anything that causes a fight or flight response in the body can cause cold sweats. There are four basic causes we should be concerned about:
- pain
- lack of oxygen
- fear
- low blood sugar (hypoglycemia)
Today, all of the ALTs went to the BOE together for the first time in order to attend the second day of orientation. We started off a bit on the wrong foot because even though we left thirty minutes early, our caravan somehow took longer to arrive than it usually does and we were chastised for our tardiness. This was not the reason for my title though. Not nearly.
At the end of orientation I began to feel sick. My stomach cramped up and I was sure I needed to vomit or expel something somehow. After attempting to reason with my bowels fruitlessly, I couldn't wait anymore.
I stood up. Without a by your leave or thank you very much. Hayley looked at me like I was crazy, aka with concern, and really I wasn't thinking very clearly. I told her I needed to go to the restroom and she was, “Oh, just tell Ms. Sato before you leave.”
I should have known something was up because I am not normally so rude, but in all honesty I felt so I'll so suddenly that my brain cells must have been reallocated to some other more imperative function while my body tried, in what felt like vain, to restore my equilibrium.
I managed to ask and stumbled out the door into a bathroom. After plopping down in a stall I began to feel dizzy. I felt as if my eyes were looking through kaleidoscopes turning in opposite directions. I broke out into a cold sweat, my face dripping for no apparent reason at all. The room we were in had been cool. We had been there for almost two hours! I hadn't overheated; I hadn't even been warm!