If you 'feel the cold', it is probably because you _are_ cold

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!🤷🏻‍♀️

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

Reading these posts has made me realise that I’m nearly always too hot or too cold! No pleasing some people.

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.

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!

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 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.

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.

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.

FannyCornforth
You sound just like me. I'm already hot as anything, so summer could happily be delayed or even cancelled this year!

I sometimes get a strange coldness around my middle. It's as if I'm cold on the inside. And then it takes ages to warm up from that.

I’ve only recently managed to stop dh (who has inbuilt central heating) from endlessly saying, ‘Won’t you be too hot in that?’ when we’re going out.

Well, mostly - yesterday he did say it when I put a thin waterproof jacket on before going for a walk when rain was forecast!

A permanently ‘hot’ dd is much the same - ‘Don’t you want to take that jumper/cardi off?’ at her house, which I often find on the chilly side.

Another cold one here my patients always complained about my cold hands. My heating is still on. We are in Cheshire not a terribly cold place but so wet...it rains constantly so it feels cold and damp.

watermeadow

I never used to feel the cold but in old age my hands are always icy. The cats cringe away when I try to stroke them.
I’ve been miserably cold for the past two months since my energy bill tripled. Before that my thermostat was set to 15, now it’s off despite my having had a respiratory infection for 3 weeks.
I am furious that in our cold wet climate old people cannot afford to be warm.

watermeadow, were you not able to spend the winter fuel allowance plus the monthly handout on keeping warm this winter? It was a great deal of money

Perhaps you could think of keeping one room warm enough, no point in being a martyr to cold, especially when the government supplied all that money to every pensioner

I wear thermals every day and 3 jumpers, woolly tights and trousers. I am always feeling cold, which is quite depressing.

I never used to feel the cold but in old age my hands are always icy. The cats cringe away when I try to stroke them.
I’ve been miserably cold for the past two months since my energy bill tripled. Before that my thermostat was set to 15, now it’s off despite my having had a respiratory infection for 3 weeks.
I am furious that in our cold wet climate old people cannot afford to be warm.

Fleur, No I am not naturally slim. I have been between 10lbs and stone overweight most of my life, while always being comfortably within the approved BMI range, and sometimes more. I work at keeping my weight under reasonable control, and always have done. The same for the rest of the chilly mortals in my family.

My Raynauds is restricted to my fingers, but I do have cold feet and wear warm thermal socks over my tights throughout the winter.

Not said you had at all. Of course I wouldn't. Normally, for the majority of cases, Raynauds tends to affect extremities, and hypothyroidism (I am a sufferer) cold all over.

FleurP, I have Raynauds and also circulatory problems, so cold all over.
My body temp is always low, but I do NOT have problems with my thyroid, I can assure you.

Marydoll

Fleurpepper

Feeling cold a lot of the time, is a classical sign of hypothyroidism (thyroid under working) - so it is worth getting your thryroid function checked.

and Raynauds and other circulatoery problems.

Raynaud's tends to affect extremities, hands, feet- whereas hypothyroidism makes you feel cold all over/general

I am the person who is wrapped up for howling winds and pelting rain as I set out on a long walk, only to return home with coats and sweaters knotted around my waist, long sleeves rolled up the elbow and beyond.