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Posted 12/4/2009 7:21 PM (GMT 0)
I've been having issues of getting too cold at night and not being able to get warm no matter how much I wear or how many covers I put on. I read that cold intolerance could be a symptom of being anemic. I know I loose a ton of blood and blood clots when I flare, but my last flare was some nine months ago. Has any else been experiencing cold intolerance or have experienced it?
Posted 12/4/2009 7:48 PM (GMT 0)
Not really. But have you tried sticking a heating pad under the covers with you? I like to turn one on in the wintertime and stick it under the covers while I'm brushing my teeth and stuff to warm the bed up a bit. Then I snuggle with it for a little while before I turn it off. Or maybe just try and electric blanket since it sounds like you're cold all night.
Posted 12/4/2009 9:00 PM (GMT 0)
I am also intolerant to the cold and always have been. I do is take a hot bath before I crawl in bed. It works really well!

Sue
Posted 12/4/2009 11:03 PM (GMT 0)
Yeah, I have had a few instances of that. Only thing that helped me was HOT bath. I even get chills and shake, lol.
Posted 12/5/2009 4:14 AM (GMT 0)

fruitgirl said...
Not really. But have you tried sticking a heating pad under the covers with you? I like to turn one on in the wintertime and stick it under the covers while I'm brushing my teeth and stuff to warm the bed up a bit. Then I snuggle with it for a little while before I turn it off. Or maybe just try and electric blanket since it sounds like you're cold all night.

Hi Fruit Girl,

I've tried everything. I seem to get cold from the inside out. I can feel my body drop in temperature by levels. Hot baths help but are no longer enough. My boyfriend turned on the heater and was sleeping without any covers. At the same time, I had an electric heating pad on my tummy (which my boyfriend said was dangerous to do). Plus I was wearing PJs, a sweater, socks, gloves, and hat. And I had a ton of blankets wrapped around me--underneath as well as on top. Still it was not enough. I've always had trouble retaining heat, and even caught pneumonia when I was 22 due to getting too cold. But that time, I wasn't wearing enough. This year has been the worst. I'm having difficulty retaining heat, especially at night.
Posted 12/5/2009 4:19 AM (GMT 0)
Last winter I had a really big problem with this. My feet and hands were permanently frozen ALL the time and it didn't matter what I did, I couldn't keep them warm. I ended up getting a heated mattress pad. I'm naughty and leave it on low all night because the windows in my bedroom leak lots of cold air and of course for some reason, my room is the one that cannot heat!
Posted 12/5/2009 4:42 AM (GMT 0)
I had that cold coming from my bones feeling when I was very hypothyroid. I agree that a heated mattress pad or electric blanket may be a good option. Either that or a few dogs to sleep with you and keep you warm.
Posted 12/5/2009 5:58 AM (GMT 0)

Judy2 said...
I had that cold coming from my bones feeling when I was very hypothyroid. I agree that a heated mattress pad or electric blanket may be a good option. Either that or a few dogs to sleep with you and keep you warm.

That's what I'm worried about--that something is wrong with my thyroid or pituitary gland. I guess I should go to the doctor's and get some tests done.
Posted 12/5/2009 6:20 AM (GMT 0)
For sure go to the doctor and get it checked out. No temperature increase or decrease for sure?

Keep us posted.

quincy
Posted 12/5/2009 10:05 AM (GMT 0)
I always get a slight fever now with my flares. It starts with chills. I then do something to warm up like take a hot shower or use a hair dryer under my clothes but then I get a fever. I read that a slight fever is a sign of inflammation somewhere in your body. I take acetaminophen but make sure it comes down with one dose and is not too high. Tell your dr.
Posted 12/6/2009 6:01 PM (GMT 0)
Like Quincy said - go get checked out. I was like you. I slept with the heating pad - it had a 2 hour automatic shutoff for safety and I'd wake up during the night to turn it on again because I was soooo cold and it wasn't just a flare fever. I slept with flannel sheets, flannel jammies with the pants tucked into my fleece socks, and 3 comforters on (one was folded over so it was really 4). I felt like I was cold all day long and it just got worse at night when I stopped moving. It turned out that I was severely anemic. My docs said that if your blood loss is slow your body will compensate until it can't anymore. The ER doc said normal people that end up w/ a hemoglobin level of 4 are not walking and talking because it resulted from a rapid blood loss but because of my slow (sometimes not noticeable blood loss) no one (starting with me) recognized how bad the problem was. Speaking from experience - if this is the problem you don't want to wait until your body can't compensate. Go see the doc, have some blood draws taken. If you feel like something isn't right...it probably isn't and you need to get checked out sooner rather than later. For me I've gotten to the point where it's better to know what's wrong so that it can be treated rather than just feeling like something is wrong and not knowing what it is.
Posted 12/6/2009 9:29 PM (GMT 0)
Do you exercise regularly? it may increase your metabolism and warm you up a bit.
Posted 12/7/2009 2:03 AM (GMT 0)

Zippy123 said...
Do you exercise regularly? it may increase your metabolism and warm you up a bit.

Yes. I exercise every day. I do get warmed up when I move, but then I get cold again when I stop moving.

The strange thing is that I thought the house was colder at night than in the day. So my boyfriend put the thermometer in the bedroom. The temperature is a consistent 71 degrees.
Posted 12/7/2009 2:06 AM (GMT 0)

ducridr said...
Like Quincy said - go get checked out. I was like you. I slept with the heating pad - it had a 2 hour automatic shutoff for safety and I'd wake up during the night to turn it on again because I was soooo cold and it wasn't just a flare fever. I slept with flannel sheets, flannel jammies with the pants tucked into my fleece socks, and 3 comforters on (one was folded over so it was really 4). I felt like I was cold all day long and it just got worse at night when I stopped moving. It turned out that I was severely anemic. My docs said that if your blood loss is slow your body will compensate until it can't anymore. The ER doc said normal people that end up w/ a hemoglobin level of 4 are not walking and talking because it resulted from a rapid blood loss but because of my slow (sometimes not noticeable blood loss) no one (starting with me) recognized how bad the problem was. Speaking from experience - if this is the problem you don't want to wait until your body can't compensate. Go see the doc, have some blood draws taken. If you feel like something isn't right...it probably isn't and you need to get checked out sooner rather than later. For me I've gotten to the point where it's better to know what's wrong so that it can be treated rather than just feeling like something is wrong and not knowing what it is.

Yes. This sounds like what is happening to me. I lost a ton of blood from September to December last year. My energy is not nearly as low as it was when I was flaring. But I still don't have the energy I had five years ago--before I got my first flare. Perhaps, it is anemia. I'll get it checked. Thanks.
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