Body temp

     I'm at wits end with these swings in body temp. It's mostly in mornings but along with over aches I get the chills for 15min. then hot flashes and sweats for 15min. Off and on somtimes all day. Once I sweat then my skin burns due to salt in sweat and then I'm cold but aftraid to bundle up because it will make the next hot flash worse. And round and round it goes. It's 4pm now and easing off a bit.  Sometimes I'm dizzy with the hot flashes which makes it hard to keep busy. I excersise for 45min everyday and keep real busy doing stuff to keep my mind occupied.  I'm looking for ideas to help ease the symptomes.  Off course pain meds don't help.  I probabley need to try something "herbal".  Also I live in Ottawa Canada and spring hasn't quite reached us yet.

                                                        Waiting for a Cure

I was having those issues when my hormones were fluctuating due to female issues. Since having that taken care of, I rarely have them anymore. Once in a blue moon, I will get the hot flashes but at least the chills have subsided.

I too would question whether this is fibro. I get hot flashes still once in a while, but mostly I'm just "chillin" !!

Debbie

Hi. I used to sound just like you. I still have my days, but at least for me, the 24/7 stuff like you describe is gone. I just recently, in the last year or so, discovered the hormones I've been taking for 18 years after a total hysterectomy were not being absorbed by my body because 2/3rds of the estrogens were not bioavailable. They were floating around in my body so every single blood test came back that I had plenty of estrogen but I didn't. It wasn't being utilized. Because of my symptoms being so severe, my doc sent me to an endrocrinologist who tested the glands that produce the hormone that causes the ovaries to produce estrogen in the first place and the numbers were huge! Several hundred more than they should have been. Those glands were pumping out hormones left and right trying to get my non-existant ovaries to work. Anyway, since we switched me to estrace at the right dosage, I'm not only a whole heck of a lot happier in general, I don't have any exploding hot spells at all. Now when I get hot or clammy or anything like that, it's far milder than before and whole lot more tolerable. I hope you find something that works for you. I just wish I had gone to this guy a long, long time ago. Would have saved me a lot of grief. Good luck!