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If you 'feel the cold', it is probably because you _are_ cold
(65 Posts)I am what is called a 'chilly mortal' , as are many of my family. When others are outside in T shirst , we still have extra sweaters on and I have got innured to being described as a 'wuss' or a 'wimp' because I am always well wrapped.
Well, yesterday was Liberation Day. We made a family visit to the Science Centre at Winchester, a science and discovery centre for children, and here a digression and advert, it is expensive but absolutely fantastic and DGS, nearly 13, loved it, despite finding bits a bit young for him.
Anyway among the features was a thermograph that measured the heat being given off by your body, like those multi-oloured pictures you get of houses to show heat loss. DS, DGS and I stood in front of it and while the hands of both of them showed orange to red, my hands came up navy blue to black showing them as being very cold, yet to me, feeling generally quite warm, my hands felt fine. They were warm(ish) to the touch, blood was flowing freely and they were a healthy pinkish colour and I felt no need for gloves. Yet they were showing up as blue/black.
What they would have looked like on a cold day and/or a day when my Raynauds Sindrome is waxing strong I hate to think.
I would add we had been in the warm Science Centre for an hour, and I was wearing my quilted coat, still fully zipped over a thick sweater while DS and DGS were in T shirts with light unzipped jackets over.
I am sure that if we had each stood in front off the thermograph in our underwear, my whole body would have shown up as much colder than their bodies overall. I do know that when my temperature is taken it is very much bumping on the low edge of normal.
So for all those who quail in their woolies under the onslaught of people in T shirts, take courage, you are not a wuss or wimp, your body is actually, just colder than other people's and that is why you need those extra layers.
If this wasn’t covered ( I neve read all the post as so long)
But Think there’s certain medical conditions that makes people feel the cold too.
Now here's a weird thing. HD had chemo. Since then he is troubled with hot feet... BUT it doesn't relate to actual physical temperature of said feet- he can say they are burning hot - feel them and go 'but they feel cool'. It is a known thing - Chemo induced peripheral neuropathy. Seems to make the messaging system unreliable.
I am always cold too. Wear a jacket or body warmer indoors, two duvets on my bed and I have to keep a dressing gown on to sleep.
When it was hot last summer I actually felt quite comfortable for once.
I have very low BP and a slow heart rate.
A 6 week stay in hospital when I was pregnant in 1977 showed that I have a low normal body temperature. Day after day my temperature hovered below normal on the graph at the end of my bed. It never reached normal.
About 10 years ago when I came round after an operation the recovery nurse was very concerned that my temperature had dropped close to hypothermia.
I used to always be too hot and on the rare occasions I wore a coat in the depths of winter it elicited comments such as "Must be cold! Jo's got a coat on!" This last couple of years I've stopped overheating and need a coat most of the time. I've put it down to having lost a lot of weight so no longer as well insulated.
My body temperature has always shown as on the low side of normal so I assume my surroundings would feel warmer than people with a higher 'Normal' due to the reduced difference between my body and the surroundings. Since losing weight my normal temperature has risen slightly!
It's a pity this has all happened at the time the cost of heating our homes has risen so much as I need the heating more than I used to! Also have the increased cost of needing new smaller clothes as most of my trousers keep falling down if I put anything in the pockets! However for the first time in years I'm on the border between overweight and obese instead of firmly in the obese part of the chart. Apart from the cold I feel much better for it! Roll on Summer!
I've just recently started having really icy cold hands and always feeling cold, unless im exercising. Turns out I am anaemic and have been given 200mg of Iron a day to help.
Reading these posts has made me realise that I’m nearly always too hot or too cold! No pleasing some people.
Well! Odd Bod here! I’m generally cold apart from my right leg which is HOT all the time and usually bright red! Figure that out … I can’t!
I always feel cold; unless I am somewhere where the ambient temperature is a continuous 25 c +. My late mother was even worse and my daughter is the same as I am,
Over the years I have been told enough, always reproachful stories of the kind: in the ear…. never had heating in the house and it was so lovely …. frost on the inside of windows …. extra jumpers..::. wrap self in blankets…. do some heavy hoovering and scrubbing and on and on they go. I feel cold and that’s how I am. Hate all those sanctimonious cold but ever so happy “instructive” stories.
My tip for “Cold bods” do a bit of vacuuming, you’ll be stripping down to your thermals in no time😀
Sadly not if you are a cold person with an under active thyroid and Raynaud's. I am never hot and can be freezing cold in the mist of summer despite it being 25+ outside. My thermostat is permanently on 21-23 all year round indoors in my house. I would've to be able to wear just a flimsy summer dress, it sadly does not happen.
win That is the problem with so many things, those who do not have a problem think that those with a problem 'just have to.........'
I can get Raynaud's in a heatwave, or when doing heavy gardening, or doing vacuuming. I am not anaemic, do not have thyroid problems. I have had this problem since I was a child. I always had a layer or two more than other people. I had Raynauds in my 20s. Had my first episode of hypothermia when I was 20.
I so emphasise Monica, I too have suffered from as farbackas I can remember before school even, always white hands and feet, then blue then purple with smooch pain I would cry as a child. It has just got worse and worse over the years. The doctor told that for every time your hands/feet "dye" it gets worse the next time. It is of course lack of circulation and the nerve endings in the extremities but my goodness it is horrible. I can never have buttons and zips in my trousers in the winter as I simply cannot do them, I can't type my PIN number in, so thanks goodness for contactless now. Loads of other things I can't do, but you will know all about them. I wear 2 pair of socks and gloves day and night all year round. I am not anaemic either but do have anaemia apparently as well as the Raynaud's and thyroid problem.
Sumner or winter my lower legs and feet are permanently cold, the rest of me normal ….except at night . Winter or summer my bedroom window is open and I sleep under a sheet on summer and add a thin throw blanket in winter. Had all tests ….thyroid…and checked my blood is circulating normally. My doctor thinks it’s a ‘left over’ from menopause …some women just never lose those night sweats!! I’m one. But even while I’m sweating I’ve got warm socks on day and night!🤷🏻♀️
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