Cold sweats may be caused by anxiety, stress, pain, and infection.
And when they were having a heart attack, the symptoms most reported were shortness of breath (58%), weakness (55%), unusual fatigue (43%),
cold sweat (39%) and dizziness (39%).
WHAT NIGHTMARES HAVE Republicans thrashing in their beds, only to awaken in a
cold sweat? What fearsome specters haunt their sleep and stalk their waking hours?
"I would guess what gets Alan Greenspan up at night with a
cold sweat is deflation.
Her condition had improved 2 weeks after the onset of these symptoms, but 1 month later she awoke in the middle of the night with palpitations and a
cold sweat; these symptoms were soon followed by nausea and a sensation that "the room was moving." The moving sensation lasted approximately 2 hours.
Still, Western companies' most recent experiences in the region would cause most executives to break into a
cold sweat at the thought of tackling the Asian "tiger."
Anxious thoughts also raise blood pressure, and cause hand tremors,
cold sweat, a knotted stomach, and pervasive weakening (as when we say "sick with dread").
Environmental toxins are the stuff nightmares are made of--but there's no need to wake up in a
cold sweat over packing your child's lunch.
Every now and then, great institutions wake up in a
cold sweat and--a bit like Kafka's Gregor Samsa--discover they have metamorphosed into something resembling a dinosaur.
I was in a
cold sweat after having had one of the worst nightmares of my life.
As he slips behind the controls of his hovercraft, he feels a gripping pain in his chest, followed by shortness of breath and a
cold sweat. Soon he's slumping in his seat.
James Brown classics featured in the collection include "Please Please Please" (1956), "Try Me" (1958), "It's A Man's World" (1964), "Papa's Got a Brand New Bag" (1965), "
Cold Sweat" (1967), and "Say It Loud-I'm Black And I'm Proud" (1968).
He wakes in a
cold sweat, a ball of string in his hands.
Dave Hobday, of Payment processing firm Worldpay, said: "Many shoppers will be breaking into a
cold sweat at the thought of heading to the high street on the busiest shopping day of the year."