chills

Hi and welcome.  I'm glad you decided to  join to join in.  We have wonderful members that love to help one another and, as a bonus, we do care about each other, too.  So, welcome to our fibro family!

Yes, many with fibro will get chills...right out of the blue.  We will get hot, too.  Many a night I have blankets up to my ears and then get hot and take them all off and then get cold and put them back on...all night long.  Also, during the day, I can get chilled, almost like I was getting sick, and then it goes away.  It doesn't happen a lot with me, thank goodness.  The doctors are beginning to think this is a neurological illness so that would make sense with the chills.

Be sure to check out the Fibro 101 thread...the second thread on the forum.  There are links to good information about fibromyalgia and you will learn a lot there.

I'm glad you found us and decided to join in.  Don't hesitate to ask questions because we are here to help you.  I hope to hear more from  you soon.

Sherrine 

Hi, I am glad you decided to post! I get chills like that and they always come with the aching flu-like pain. I can never tell which comes first, but the chills always make me tighten up my shoulders and make the pain in them worse.

Do your chills come with additional pain?

I am always cold except for when I'm REALLY hot - so hot my ears and cheeks turn bright red and feel like they're burning. My body temperature runs low, too, around 97. I've been sick recently and found that when I feel feverish, my temperature is actually 94-95 - lower instead of higher. I keep forgetting to ask my doctor (what a surprise).

There doesn't seem to be anything for it. When I get a real chill, nothing will warm up my body, not a heating pad or a hot shower or anything. My skin will still be cold to the touch and I will be shivering with goosebumps. It happens for no apparent reason. So does the blushing and heat; though it does happen when I'm anxious or embarrassed, it also happens for no reason sometimes.

I'm only 21 and my mom jokes I'm going through menopause!

-Sandi

Hi Gagee and welcome.  I have a terrible time with body temp, I'm either freezing or sweating, rarely comfy. We keep our family room very warm, the room I'm in the most, and when I go out I dress in layers cause I never know what temp where I'm going is going to be. Some times I don't think I'm ever going to get warm but when I do a hot flash will hit.

 

Glad you joined.

 

luv and hugs

Marlee

Post Edited By Moderator (Sherrine) : 2/28/2010 1:24:53 PM (GMT-7)

My normal body temp is around 95 or 96. The guy at the herbal shop told me that a lot of overweight people have lower body
temps so it doesn't burn the fat like it's supposed to. I usually keep my heat at 55 but the kero heater has it around 60 most
days. I work in a dishroom that is usually around 80 degrees and about 100+ in the summer (I've seen it as high as 115).
I don't normally have a problem with chills unless I sit around alot. It seems to lower the body temp even more by being
stationary.

Nana, I'm with you. I hardly ever get chills and am always too warm. When I'm the only one at home, I lower the thermostat to 55 and sometimes even open windows in the winter. I had never heard that overweight people have lower body temperatures and therefore don't burn fat as they're supposed to. Since I'm very overweight, maybe that's part of my problem.

Thanks, everybody for the warm welcome (I need the warmth lol).  I do find that I get hot at night.  I've been cold all day then at night I get so hot that I kick the covers off and turn the ceiling fan on then I get cold.

Someone said low body temp sometimes is caused by having more weight but I am underweight or just below normal.

The chill symptom just started last week.  I'd never had it before but with fibro, it's something new everyday.

Thanks for all of your help.  It makes me feel like I am not alone.

im only 23 and all this just started and im really scared i dont know whats wrong with me and neither does my dr. hes checking me for hormone problems. it all happens to me at once. my body feels like its on fire every where its really hot but im never running a fever then while thats happening my heart rate and my blood pressure rises very high and i feel like im having a hard time breathing. that might be anxiety but then im really hot but my body is freezing and aching really bad when it happens especially my legs and i get really weak tired and dizzy. what do you think is wrong with me im scared an i want it to all go away?

I, too, get chills at times. Usually I am really hot, for no reason, and then I get chills. Sort of feels like I am coming down with the flu or something. I also have night sweats, but I believe that is caused by the Lexapro. I have read posts from other people who take Lexapro and also wake up in a sweat at night. It doesn't happen every night. It happens two or three times a week. Strange.

Hi guys (gals),  I think that somehow my inner thermostat has done a flip flop.  I used to wear long underware from October until April.  Also used to wear a thermal shirt under a sweat shirt, inside or outside.  Don't get me wrong, I still get cold but I am hot more often than not.  I threw out all my pullover sweat shirts and bought a bunch of zip up hoodies, they come off easier. 

I can be sitting here in a T shirt and thin sweat type pants and break into a sweat, literally with sweat running down my body.  It is not hot flashes as I have had those, they start on the chest ade the fire goes up to the face.  This is an all over rush of heat.

On days that I am cold and can't get warm usually means I am on my way to getting sick or fighting off something.

My temperature is also around 96.......Soooo when it reads 99 does that mean I have a temp of 3 degrees above normal?  Often wondered that.