Cold all the time

[Firefoot]

I am permanently cold and getting a bit pee'd off with it now. Been like it for as long as I can remember, spoken to GP who ruled out Raynauds disease but couldn't really offer any ideas for why I am always cold.

I need the heating on all year round. When other people in the office are fine with the temperature, I am cold, have goosebumps and find my hands get so cold that my fingers feel like they are seizing up, making it very difficult to type. If I walk through the frozen food or chiller section in the supermarket, I get extremely cold and can take some time to warm back up.

Does anyone else get this? Do some people just run colder than others?

[DKL]

Often a sign of underactive thyroid. Either that or you're Australian!

[Brink]

DKL said:

Often a sign of under-active thyroid...

Hypothyroidism - go back the GP and and be insistent!

[stifler]

Do you still have a pulse?

As above really, get your GP to do a proper check. If it is anything to do with your thyroid, sooner rather than later is key.

[micky g]

I bet you're not fat...

Only fat people don't feel the cold.

[Firefoot]

Cheers, a number of the symptoms for under active thyroid do seem to fit. Will go back to the GP

[Penny-lope]

micky g said:

I bet you're not fat...

Only fat people don't feel the cold.

Well that's crap, when I was 7 stone heavier than I am now, I was still a cold tattie...always have been, aslong as I can remember

[micky g]

Penny-lope said:

micky g said:

I bet you're not fat...

Only fat people don't feel the cold.

Well that's crap, when I was 7 stone heavier than I am now, I was still a cold tattie...always have been, aslong as I can remember

Lol! Say what you mean.

Sorry, I was drunk when I posted that, (although there is an element of truth in it).

Well done with the diet btw.

[Driller]

Firefoot said:

I am permanently cold and getting a bit pee'd off with it now. Been like it for as long as I can remember, spoken to GP who ruled out Raynauds disease but couldn't really offer any ideas for why I am always cold.

I need the heating on all year round. When other people in the office are fine with the temperature, I am cold, have goosebumps and find my hands get so cold that my fingers feel like they are seizing up, making it very difficult to type. If I walk through the frozen food or chiller section in the supermarket, I get extremely cold and can take some time to warm back up.

Does anyone else get this? Do some people just run colder than others?

How much exercise do you do?

[Davel]

It could be the weather!

[BigAlinEmbra]

Firefoot said:

I am permanently cold and getting a bit pee'd off with it now. Been like it for as long as I can remember, spoken to GP who ruled out Raynauds disease but couldn't really offer any ideas for why I am always cold.

I need the heating on all year round. When other people in the office are fine with the temperature, I am cold, have goosebumps and find my hands get so cold that my fingers feel like they are seizing up, making it very difficult to type. If I walk through the frozen food or chiller section in the supermarket, I get extremely cold and can take some time to warm back up.

Does anyone else get this? Do some people just run colder than others?

Working in an office that is almost entirely full of women, I've noticed the following anomalies.
1) Wearing a little strappy top or t-shirt when it's baltic outside will contribute to you feeling cold.
2) Wearing little strappy tops, floaty summer dresses, flip flops etc and moaning about how hot it is in summer will not get you any sympathy from the men in suits.
3) When dressed as per 1) and moaning about the cold, the men in suits do not appreciate the heating being cranked up full welly cos you don't want to wear a jumper.

I hope this assists.

[Firefoot]

Driller said:

How much exercise do you do?

It has varied over the years. I used to swim 100 lengths a day in local pool 6 days per week, badmington a couple of times a week plus aerobics. Used to feel the cold all the time then. (getting in a cold pool when you are already cold took some doing)

These days it is more a case of an hour on the Wii fit a few times a week. I still feel the cold.

I don't wear strappy tops and complain about the cold, although I know plenty of the type of women that do this

[Firefoot]

Davel said:

It could be the weather!

lol, I know its not exactly heatwave time, but I genuinely feel cold the majority of the time, regardless of weather. It has to be a seriously hot day outside for me to feel warm.

I have booked into the docs next week so will be asking for a blood test and see where we go from there.

[Driller]

Firefoot said:

Driller said:

How much exercise do you do?

These days it is more a case of an hour on the Wii fit a few times a week. I still feel the cold.

You know that's not exercise don't you? I guarantee that if you go running three times a week for half an hour your cold problems will be a thing of the past.

[tricky69]

thought it was a sign or poor circulation

[Firefoot]

Driller said:

You know that's not exercise don't you? I guarantee that if you go running three times a week for half an hour your cold problems will be a thing of the past.

Yeah I know you cant really call using the Wii excercise, I use it mostly for the yoga as I find it relaxing after a crap day at work.

I also have a running machine and over the years have fluctuated between just running regularly, doing a variety of excercise, not exercising at all and now moderate exercise. Nothing has ever changed my cold issues. I have been underweight, overweight, the correct weight etc, again, no change. It is the one constant in my life.

[mybrainhurts]

Try wearing clothes...

[mrsxllifts]

Did the gp check your blood pressure? I have very low blood pressure and really suffer with being cold. I can't remember the numbers but they always check the machine when it taken! I get cold really easily and take ages to warm up.

[Davi]

have you tried aclimatising yourself to colder weather? I've always been the type that could wear a t shirt and jeans all year round (even recall walking home in snow in a t-shirt thinking it was just a bit nippy) then I met my wife... she likes the heating on all year round and after just a few years of living in the furnace I am now permanently cold. Very fking annoying. I reckon if it works one way, it should work the other, so I'm going to be gradually turning down the thermostat over the months and disconnecting the dial so it can't be altered by anyone else

[Firefoot]

Saw my gp today. After describing all the symptoms I am being tested for thyroid, diabetes, oestrogen level and something else that I can't remember the name of. Blood pressure is perfect though, so that's good. Just have to wait a week for results.