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Posted 7/22/2009 4:37 AM (GMT 0)
I've noticed that while I've always liked a cool room to sleep in, since my prostatectomy I seem to find what was cool before, now warm.

I want to turn the air conditioner up, my wife says it's freezing.

This is a total reversal of our usual positions on heating/cooling the house.

Is there any sort of hormonal response to the loss of a prostate that could account for my feeling warmer?  Not hot flushes, thank Heavens, but warmer.

Of course, all of this assumes I'm the one who has changed, not my wife.

I tried a search without any luck on this.  If anyone has a thought I'd be glad to hear it.

Sleepless, AKA  Sheldon  

 

Posted 7/22/2009 10:16 AM (GMT 0)
Have you checked to see if you're running a fever?

Posted 7/22/2009 11:00 AM (GMT 0)
I had the same issue for a while and I think it was part of the process of healing after major surgery.
Posted 7/22/2009 1:02 PM (GMT 0)
Steve --- good point, but I don't have a fever. Give my love to Dallas, great city!

Jacketch --- nice to know someone else has been in the same boat. It's not a major thing, but I probably want the bedroom one/two degrees "F" cooler than previously. Love your "Thriving, not just surviging!'
Posted 7/22/2009 2:11 PM (GMT 0)
Sleepness, i have a lifetime problem of feeling overheated constantly, so my wife and I have never agreed on tempertures. But I remember the first month after my open surgery, I felt cold all the time and it puzzled my wife to see me wanting blankets and sweaters. That passed, and now I am back to feeling hot all the time. Contrary bunch, aren't we.

David in SC
Posted 7/22/2009 3:14 PM (GMT 0)
Yep, same situation for my after surgery. I suspect it's the combo of healing, surgery drugs lingering in the system, and hormonal changes from the body adapting to some small amounts of whatever chemicals that are missing from the organs removed. Mine tapered off after a year or so, but I still have an occassional 'hot flash'.
Posted 7/23/2009 3:41 AM (GMT 0)
This is weird But I have been having the same symptoms myself it has been 5 weeks since my surgery but I find myself asking my wife if she seems warm and she is covering up and I am uncovering to which my daughter is horrified . dad put your shirt on she says. It must be something with the chemical changes in our body since the surgery chemicals should be out by now shouldn't they?
Timmy
Posted 7/23/2009 3:59 AM (GMT 0)
Thanks everyone.

This isn't a big deal, as deals in this forum go, that's for sure, but when my wife suggested she just put the ice cream on the headboard to keep it frozen I promised I'd ask the group.

So, now I've got my answer: "Sorry dear. No one has ever heard of anything like this --- I'm fine, it's you who is having hot/cold issues again!"

Lord, I hate myself sometimes.

Sheldon AKA Sleepless (but doing better if the air conditioner is running full blast)
Posted 7/24/2009 12:33 AM (GMT 0)
Surgery did not cause this issue for me, but hormone therapy sure did. Out of curiousity, has your testosterone levels been checked? Low T levels can absolutely cause chronic flashes. I am very experienced there. In fact I keep one side of the house cooler than the other just for this reason. It's ok though. The side I keep cool is the kitchen, and office. Both are my territory anyway...;-)

Tony
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