Keeping cool at night.....the best solution ever.

I am like Lilyflower always cold. My 15 tog duvet stays on my bed all year round and on the odd occasion it is hot, I lie without the duvet for a few minutes. a 1 tog duvet- I would be suffering from hypothermia.

I do sleep naked; I was young once and have never caught up ?. However, nakedness doesn't equate to nighttime coolth, I spend humid nights fighting with my 4 tog duvet and turning the pillow 40 times a night. Add to that the fact that SW London is on the flightpath to Heathrow and you get an idea of my summer insomnia. I'm going to try one of those cooling things, thanks for the advice.

Fan AND earplugs! Solution!

I had a hot water bottle last night, my feet were freezing. I'm an honorary northerner

Charleygirl I keep the same duvet all year round too, plus last night I had a hot water bottle! I blame that on being hypothyroid though.

X post with you, Madmartha. Glad I'm not the only one. It was cold, wasn't it!!

I only decided last night that I can possibly do without my hot water bottle for a few weeks but I did have my cat snuggled up to me. Even after a shower I am still cold when I first get into bed and it is few hours before I feel comfortable. My ex was the opposite and was always flapping the duvet, causing a draught at my side of the bed.

I'm a northern girl, hypothermic, consequently always cold! My husband is the polar (!) opposite to me in everything, he likes a cold bed, flaps the duvet which drives me mad, he likes heavy bedding on top though which I can't stand. He also snores like a train, need I say more? We are in separate bedrooms across the hall and I can STILL hear him!

I find that living in a 350 year old 'mud hut' helps!! For those that don't understand, the walls are cob, which is clay, straw and grit, filled into a timber frame, and a thatched roof.

You could always try filling a hot water bottle with crushed ice before spending on a cool mat.

I won't need that mat - I live on top of a moor in Scotland and I've NEVER been too hot in 66 years! lol. My American friends talk about the high cost of their "air" and I tell them all I need to do is open a front window and open a back window and voila - AIR lol

I remove the the duvet out of the cover and sleep under that, I keep a throw at the end in case my feet get cold. I keep a good distance from H because he could double as an electric fire.

Always a northern girl and I have had a 4.5 tog duvet on for weeks now. I never have more than 10 and that only for about 3 months. I am throwing it off several times a night but I do like the feeling of a light cover so it gets yanked back.

I took my duvet off the bed weeks ago, just use the cover. When it is very hot I have a large freeze block (the sort you use in cool boxes) which I keep in freezer, when needed I put it inside a zip lock bag and wrap in a towel. Sleep with it on my pillow.
My OH still has a winter duvet, and when I used to sleep in the same bed we were always battling to either get rid of duvet or keep it on. Another good thing about having my own bed, no sleeping next to a furnace lol.

I have a "Chillow pillow. It sounds like the cool pad for the dog. There are loads available on Amazon or eBay. It's very soothing and you can position it anywhere you need it.

wrap yourself in a sheet?

Permission for everyone to laugh ........ right, on the rare nights that it is too hot for comfortable sleeping, I take a Coldwater bottle to bet with me. Yes the hotwater bottle in reverse !! It works.

There is a sort of doggy towelling dressing gown which you wring out in cold water and tie round. Have forgotten make, but Google will know

I do the old feet in, feet out trick to cool me down lol.

@Mulu52 for restless legs, try raising the foot end of the bed. It worked for me.
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Anya just watch that the dog doesn't catch on about the cool pad or he will be in beside you! That would be a 'hot dog'!

We always use a top sheet so that when one of us is hot (that is me!) the duvet is pushed to the side but there is still a cover.

I have also used hot water bottles filled with chilled water and/or ice cubes and also freezer blocks in an effort to cool down and, yes, they do work.

I use a hot-water bottle. seriously. However, I fill it with ice cold water from the fridge. I can rest my feet on it, or 'cuddle' it close if I am really sweltering. It really works.
I also keep a citrus body spray in the fridge during the hot weather, which is very refreshing when you are feeling hot and sweaty. Marks and Spencer do a lovely Lemon Verbena one.

You can't sleep naked and uncovered!, what if a fly lands on your bum!

Kkrunch - you use a sheet! that's why you are naked...

Anya, would that cool mat thingy work with a pillow, my pillow makes me so hot, my face sweats even though I have the cool cotton marks and spencers pillow slips. Tell me more about the mat please, thanks.