I Freeze To Fast And Get To Hot Help!

[munkafats]

sorry in advance but not sure how to navigte around this site yet , im a slim to medium 40 year old woman and i get colder and colder every winter , even when i was a teen it was nothing to sleep all night with my electric blanket on high all night (normally as fallen asleep) , i abhor winter every year , i also feel like its going to be the death of me somehow , currently im wearing 4 layers on the top including thermals and fingerless gloves , its a sunny winters day and i feel like a blithering idiot , i sleep with full pj's on with my electric blanket on medium all night while hubby is all natural with no heating on , people say its in my mind , i say its bloody well not !!! when i get cold it seems to take me hours to warm up and the same when i get to hot , i seem to have moments at night when im looking for a cool spot on the sheets as i overheat ? , ive been checked for thyroid but comes back ok , i also get pins and needles in hands nearly every night and im a naughty smoker , im not asking for a diagnosis but hoping soemone else is the same cheers (sorry long winded)

[ohsotired]

No answers for you, just empathy. I suffer the same thing. I live in Texas, it's still a balmy 80-something degrees outside at 11pm, and I'm wearing jeans, socks, a tshirt and a sweatshirt - and I'm still COLD.

I get too hot at night and wake up in a pool of sweat, and of course the instant I step out of bed I'm freezing again.

I've had nights where I had to get up to change my shirt (usually a tank top) and lay an extra layer between me and the sweat dampened sheets. Otherwise I lay there and shiver because the sheets are damp.

You are definitely not alone.

[mushroom]

Count me in as another too cold, too hot person. My comfortable temperature bands are very limited. I have a sweatshirt on in mid-summer evening while talking to you, my standard evening garb. Sometimes I get to wear something short-sleeved during the day, though not often. Sweat up the bed at night after shivering when I get in I don't get it

[Juliebove]

I'm with you! Things have gotten better now that my thyroid is no longer out of whack. When it was, I had blankets everywhere. In my van, in every room of my house. I also had a lot of little fans because it didn't take much for me to overheat at all. At the time I was living in Alameda, CA where it was pretty much 70 degrees year round.

These days I need it to be 70. If it is, I am fine. But even a few degrees over that and I am sweating. If it's much cooler then I have to get out the winter clothes. I just turned 50. Don't know if my age is a factor or not. It was worse during my 40's.

[munkafats]

omgosh ty all , im none the wiser as i see you guys/gals arent either . DO those closest to you say its all in your mind ? man i hate that .................(err arr full stop)

[ravenwoodglass]

Your not an oddball at all as you have seen. The only thing I have found that helps is a fan on low pointed at my bed. Usually I am cold when I go to bed but at some point I get too warm. I toss off the blankets to the side usually at some point in the night. I then will wake up a bit when I cool off and pull them back over me. I also find no matter what when I wake up in the morning even if I am a comfortable temp as soon as I get up I get overheated. It seems I am always adding or losing clothes. I was at the store today with a flannel shirt and a sweatshirt over it, I got some strange looks, as usual, since everyone else was in shorts and T's. Oh well at least we aren't alone in our oddly functioning body thermostats.

[mushroom]

  ravenwoodglass said:

It seems I am always adding or losing clothes. I was at the store today with a flannel shirt and a sweatshirt over it, I got some strange looks, as usual, since everyone else was in shorts and T's.

:lol: Haha! you are at least as bad as me, probably worse I look at those people and start to shiver....shorts, tees, flipflops brrr! Don't ev en have them in my wardrobe

[ranger]

Thank God! I thaught I was just getting old. I used to winter sports and the hotter the summer day, the better. Now, if I'm out in the sun on a hot day, I feel like I'm going to spontaneously combust, and I dread going from the house to the car in the winter! Guess I'm not alone!

[GottaSki]

Add me to the broken thermostat club...was always a coldy until the past 10 years...now if is over 70 or humid I overheat extremely fast...also can't exercise past 7am unless its in the winter.

Since being diagnosed with celiac I was hopeful my heat intolerence would improve with diet change. No such luck-gotten worse - seems to have gotten worse every summer for several years.

I most recently was told I have heat induced urticaria - basically allergic to heat - still waiting for appt with allergist to confirm diagnosis.

[ravenwoodglass]

  munkafats said:

omgosh ty all , im none the wiser as i see you guys/gals arent either . DO those closest to you say its all in your mind ?

Not after the first time it comes out of their mouth

Since they think it is all in your mind the next time you get too hot and start to sweat use their shirt (while they are still in it) and when they get offended say, 'What your shirt can't be wet, it's all in your mind)

Just kidding of course.

[mushroom]

  GottaSki said:

I most recently was told I have heat induced urticaria - basically allergic to heat - still waiting for appt with allergist to confirm diagnosis.

Yes, it is possible to have an allergy to heat/cold. My hubby is allergic to cold--breaks out in hives! About all you can do is avoid it