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Posted 9/18/2012 9:00 PM (GMT 0)
Anyone feel like their thermostat is broke? I am through the change but I will heat up like a hot coal at any given moment.  I keep the house so cool my husband feels like he is in the fridge! It is very embarrasing shopping sweat will start dripping off me, my hair gets wet, and it looks like I have a strange bio disease coming on! Let me know if if u have the same. Thanks redface
Posted 9/18/2012 10:26 PM (GMT 0)
My body has a broken thermostat too.

I've actually had to bundle up in a coat and sit on the heater vent to get warm.

I keep my hair cut in a short bob because my hair drips sweat at odd times.
Posted 9/18/2012 11:02 PM (GMT 0)
Me, too! I'm only 29 and my family likes to joke about my going through the change because of it! All summer I have been way too hot and setting our thermostat down to 68. In public where I can't control the temperature I do sweat a lot. It's embarrassing. At work, our residents keep their rooms so hot that often have to keep ducking my head into the freezer at the nurses station!
It's odd because I used to never be too hot. I could wear sweat shirts year round and be fine. I kind of miss that now.
Posted 9/18/2012 11:32 PM (GMT 0)
It seems that a lot of us have broken thermostats. Mine's the frigid variety. But I will still get hot flashes sometimes, and I quit having periods over 4 years ago.

I thought when I went on thyroid meds last year that things might normalize, but they haven't.

Oh well.

Debbie
Posted 9/19/2012 1:49 AM (GMT 0)
I am going through menopause! I got so sick and soaking wet Sunday trying to get ready for church. My husband had to put the fan in the bathroom so I could put my makeup on. I was getting irritable at the same time.
Posted 9/19/2012 2:38 AM (GMT 0)
My hot flashes seem to have settled down but I still get the sweat dripping when my blood sugar drops suddenly. I get so embarrassed because it always starts with beads of sweat dripping down by back so I end up with a wet back end.
Posted 9/20/2012 2:34 AM (GMT 0)
Yes, my thermostat is broken too. I sweat constantly. And that has always been my signal my blood sugar is crashing. The other night I was soaked, as usual, but for some reason did a finger stick. 45 and dropping. I hate all of this.

Last winter, I froze. My feet felt like I'd run barefoot in snow. I'm in Florida, snow is not common here, but has happened. Socks don't help. Heated throw from Target, oh yeah!
Posted 9/20/2012 3:05 AM (GMT 0)
My thermostat is confused. I get cold very easily. At night though I get awful night sweats. When my sugar drops I get the sweats. I guess my thermostat just can't make up it's mind!
Posted 9/20/2012 4:46 AM (GMT 0)
I too get the same thing! Thought I was alone. My face and body get so hot sometimes its crazy. I will be freezing cold then turn off the AC sure enough 20 minutes later my heat wave attacks again. I wash dishes and have to use Luke warm water because if I use any type of warm water I pour sweat. I never understood it. I read that people with Fibro are sensitive to there blood sugar levels and I do not have diabetes but I know when my sugar is getting low because I get extremely hot and flushed and start pouring sweat. I eat something small and I am back to normal..as long as my AC is on LOL. I am really glad I found this forum because I have had so many similar symptoms I thought I was going crazy but I now know other people have the same things and I am not alone. Thanks for reading.
Posted 9/20/2012 4:50 AM (GMT 0)
How many of you will be warm everywhere but your feet will be freezing?
I went to visit my sister the other day and spent a few nights in their house. They keep the house at 74. Just three degrees below my house. I felt fine but my feet kept freezing. I slept in shorts, cami, and thick socks.
Weird!
Posted 9/20/2012 9:20 AM (GMT 0)
I'm 35 and recently had an endometrial ablation. Since the surgery I keep getting hot flashes. If family history carries on I shouldn't hit menopause for another 20 years. I don't know what's going on, but my electric bill can't take much more of this.
Posted 9/20/2012 3:27 PM (GMT 0)
I have not posted in awhile, but I saw this topic and I just had to write!

I have had the most uncomfortable, sweaty, frustrating summer of my life. I have Hashimoto's Disease and in early summer my Dr. upped my dosage of meds for this condition. I have had more trouble with being too hot or too cold since becoming ill, but nothing like what I experienced this summer. Any activity (other than laying still in front of a fan) and I am soaked. Soggy bras, wet hair, clothes. It is so embarrassing. I can relate to everything everyone wrote here!

My Dr. says sweating and heat sensitivity are a side effect of my meds. I am also in menopause. Could it get any worse? I don't think so! Dr. is considering having me go back down in dose.

The hot weather, and no AC has been a huge challenge this season. It has been a source of depression, anxiety and sadness.

Prior to becoming ill, I was a sun lover. Hot weather? No problem! Bring it! I used to spend all possible moments doing outdoor activities which involved plenty of time in the sun. I feel like I can't even go outside. I sweat just walking around my house. It has been such a struggle.

Just a small outing like grocery shopping, is a challenge in itself for us Fibros. By the time I get home, I have soaked my clothes. It is such an uncomfortable feeling to be in soggy clothes. It also feels horrible in that I get SO HOT. It's like my body is a furnace. It makes me so irritable, and I can't "think". Its like my brain shuts down and everything goes into slow motion.

My life is upside down with this problem at the moment. I do not get any support from anyone as no one I have met, or my husband has ever had such a problem.

Thanks for reading this and letting me vent. I feel for all of you who posted here. I wish there was a good solution to this terrible problem. I see my Dr. again in a few days.

My best to you.
Posted 9/20/2012 5:13 PM (GMT 0)
HOT HOT HOT!!! Wow. Mine broke on the wide open HOT setting. I even hate to cook. I just sweat so much and drips in my hair (long but keep it up) and feels like bugs crawling on my scalp as it is dripping. Gross, I know. Who wants a sweaty cook. I keep a hand towel with me so I know my food is clean and I don't drip sweat. I have frozen my family out. My husband says he is living in a meat locker. lol. I went to my dr and she did a thyroid test and dx me with hyperthyroidism. Waiting to go to endo now. I research I have found that fibro can cause your thyroid to wacky. Yay....just what i need....another med to take. Look like a drug store now. smilewinkgrin
Posted 9/20/2012 10:43 PM (GMT 0)
Be happy the thyroid pill is no bigger than this - ( ).

:))
Posted 9/22/2012 1:10 AM (GMT 0)
I am glad it is small. I already have a horse pill I have to break in half just to take it all. LOL....Life is crazy with fibro.
Posted 9/22/2012 1:16 AM (GMT 0)
Yes, I have one of those horse pills. Fortunately it's okay to dissolve and drink it. (________) This big!
Posted 9/22/2012 7:59 AM (GMT 0)
I'm mostly running hot these days in cooler weather but I rarely sweat and if I do it's in the middle of the night.

My thermostat seems to want to stay at a constant temperature around 70 degrees. If I get too cool, my fibro pain increases and I get tighter. If I get too warm, I feel suppressed, have more trouble breathing, and have increased pain.

My all over feeling of feeling too warm feels like all over inflammation.

I do feel worse after eating certain foods and somewhat better eating others. Here's a website that addresses that:

http://chronicfatigue.about.com/od/copingwithfmscfs/a/cfs_fibrodiet_2.htm

Here's a website that addresses how important diet is to fibromyalgia:

http://www.livestrong.com/article/81882-diets-fibromyalgia/

 

Posted 9/23/2012 6:34 AM (GMT 0)
Hi everyone, I just joined the group and thought I would jump in on this one. I am never comfortable no matter what! I am always either freezing or boiling to death, there is no in between. I keep my house at 68 degrees because anything over that and I am sweating and I'd rather be cold and put on a sweatshirt then take it off again if need be. I am miserable in the winter because I am freezing for the most part but sweat to death if I bundle up in a big jacket, scarf, and gloves. My husband and mom have always said that I am like a portable furnace because I give off so much heat, which I really don't notice one way or the other. My husband also teases me about "going through the change" because of my hot flashes but I am only 29! I can be freezing one minute, then boiling the next. I hate it! I went on Celexa to help with anxiety, and a side effect of that medication made me go into permanent hot flash mode! So, I guess I am saying that I know how you feel!
Posted 9/23/2012 10:50 AM (GMT 0)
Welcome to the group jenc318.

We have to keep the thermostat set on 78/80 in the summer for us to be able to afford the bill and to keep the hubby happy............he freezes.

I sit with a fan blowing directly on me and the ceiling fan on medium. I still complain of being hot and washed in sweat.

When winter comes, I will be still warm, but my hands will be so cold that my fingers feel like they are broken they hurt so baldy.

I take 2 thyroid pills. The test always shows that I am in the middle of the scale and the dr. doesn't want to adjust to a stronger dosage, but something is definitely wrong with my internal thermostat.
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