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Posted 10/10/2012 1:16 PM (GMT 0)
Hello everyone,
I'm not skinny I'm Canadian and lived in one of the coldest city in the world, I know how to dress properly for the weather but I'm always freeeeeeeeezing now!

My hands are icy cold, my nose can't feel anything and my feet well they just make my husband jump out of bed when i put them between his feet.

I moved to the UK a year ago and obviously they have a very damp weather and their house isolation system well is just rubbish. However I have never been so cold in my life and I thought the vitamin D3 would help but it doesn't make a difference.

Is it my UC? Is it because it's an auto immune condition that makes me cold? I'm only 35 and mu husband says I shouldn't be freezing cold as I'm not old and I'm canadian.
Posted 10/10/2012 1:21 PM (GMT 0)
Well, I don't think you being Canadian has anything to do with you being cold all the time.. tongue   It could be you are just not used to the damp weather.    I am in New York and when it's a damp day here, I am cold all day. 
Posted 10/10/2012 1:26 PM (GMT 0)
I'm always cold BUT I have Raynaud's. I live in Michigan and the winters can be brutal, but I just HATE going outside when it's cold because there are some days that I just can't warm up no matter what I do. So I don't know if its my AI issues or what.
Posted 10/10/2012 2:32 PM (GMT 0)
When I'm not getting enough calories (either through flaring or through dieting) I am always freezing cold.
Posted 10/10/2012 2:45 PM (GMT 0)
It could be low iron or a yeast problem. I would try getting your iron checked. That helps me a little and it helps with energy..a little
Posted 10/10/2012 4:30 PM (GMT 0)
Michele I was living in Montreal on the same side as you and I know what you mean about this dampness in winter grr!
I checked my iron and it's fine but yeast? I'm a bit confused with yeast.

Serenity trust me im getting enough calories ahahah
Posted 10/10/2012 5:38 PM (GMT 0)
I am skinny, also Canadian and born and living in Alberta where it's dry and I'm always cold...I figured it's just part of getting older because I've had active CD since my early 20's and I don't recall being cold most of the time an issue until only about the last 10 yrs. So I'm chalking my cold issues to being older.
Posted 10/10/2012 5:48 PM (GMT 0)
Call me crazy but I'm finding the older I get, the more I like the cold weather. I love taking walks on a cold winter's day (as long as there is no snow and no ice).
Posted 10/10/2012 5:50 PM (GMT 0)
Michele come to England! It's cold and there is no snow or ice.
Posted 10/10/2012 6:04 PM (GMT 0)
Its a common side effect to UC. Im better than I was a few weeks ago...
Posted 10/10/2012 6:26 PM (GMT 0)
I live in Hawaii, and I'm still usually cold. If the temp gets much below 80 F I'll have a jacket on when everyone else is in short sleeves; and I can't tell you how much I hate the air conditioned office I work in.
Posted 10/10/2012 6:54 PM (GMT 0)
i weighed 185 before i got my dx, lost about 35, haven't been warm since -
Posted 10/10/2012 7:11 PM (GMT 0)
I don't think mine is UC related. I've been feeling cold since mid-September and it's just Canada being Canada ( I live in Brampton). I've also had cold hands and feet since I was a kid. My dad used to take me to doctors to find out why my hands were always cold but nothing ever came up. The cold feeling goes away on its own but its worse in the mornings.
Posted 10/10/2012 11:46 PM (GMT 0)
I agree it does seem to get colder the older I get... my niece asked me today as I was shivering away...why I never moved away from Canada since I'm always cold!!!

honestly thought, my body temperature has always been about 1 degree lower than average. post-minor surgery back in high school, the nurse couldn't figure out why I didn't have a temp. (apparently I should have) but the next day when it dropped to 'my' normal she understood!

A nice hot bath can sometimes help :)
Posted 10/11/2012 1:41 AM (GMT 0)
Ok. Do not laugh...I live in South Carolina where it is currently 63 degrees. My husband (who is 16 years older than I) has the gas logs on in the fireplace! Meanwhile whether UC or peri menopause related, I am hot flashing to death. My 17 year old son is laughing his head off. I am cooling off in the bathroom with the windows open!

So maybe being cold is age related. Idk.
Posted 10/11/2012 7:11 AM (GMT 0)
Normal for this time of the year, I'm excited soon I'll be breaking out my goose down slippers!

my Acupuncturist just posted this about asian medicine for autumn, some good tips and background on why we feel this way, and a nice warm drink recipe

http://breatheconnectbe.wordpress.com/2012/10/08/asian-medicine-wisdom-for-autumn/
Posted 10/11/2012 2:01 PM (GMT 0)
Oh, something just came to mind - because this happens to me. But do any of you have low blood pressure? I took my bp once when I had that down deep chill and my blood pressure was unusually low. It's normally low anyway and my norm is about 106/50-60'ish, but when my bp drops lower than 100/?? I find I get colder easier. This also happens to my husband. He's on high bp meds and for once he gets chills like me.
Posted 10/12/2012 12:15 AM (GMT 0)
My BP is usually really low and I am ALWAYS cold if the temperature gets below 70 or so.  Everyone else I know seems to be fine, but my hands and feet get freezing cold and my nose turns red.  Cute.  My mother does the same thing.  She's always cold, especially hands and feet.  This has always been true for me though, well before UC showed its ugly face.

I'm also thin and currently live in NC where I really can't complain about the cold.  :)

Posted 10/12/2012 2:22 AM (GMT 0)

tournevice said...
Hello everyone,
I'm not skinny I'm Canadian and lived in one of the coldest city in the world, I know how to dress properly for the weather but I'm always freeeeeeeeezing now!

My hands are icy cold, my nose can't feel anything and my feet well they just make my husband jump out of bed when i put them between his feet.

I moved to the UK a year ago and obviously they have a very damp weather and their house isolation system well is just rubbish. However I have never been so cold in my life and I thought the vitamin D3 would help but it doesn't make a difference.

Is it my UC? Is it because it's an auto immune condition that makes me cold? I'm only 35 and mu husband says I shouldn't be freezing cold as I'm not old and I'm canadian.

Yep! This is me. Lived 2hours from canada for most of my life so far, and have always had cold hands/cold feet. Read up on it, suggests poor circulation and candida overgrowth. But it could very well be other things.
Posted 10/12/2012 2:31 AM (GMT 0)
My BP is low - always has been. I've always been cold too. No Raynaud's, or bad circulation either.

But I'm like Michael, I love the cold. It bothers me when I can't warm up, but other than that it doesn't bother me.

I just purchased a Columbia jacket for winter, and I'll tell you now, I won't be cold for winter this year. Except my legs, haha.
Posted 10/12/2012 2:39 AM (GMT 0)
It's the damp that goes through your bones.

Snowed a lot here in northern Ontario (that's in Canada) today and it feels waaaaay warmer than yesterday when it rained.

I also think there's validity in the low blood pressure theory, check it out.

Hope you get the sun shining soon!
Posted 10/12/2012 6:48 AM (GMT 0)
Well after many thoughts I think it's just the extreme damp!
I don't accept the age theory :P And I was never cold before in fact very warm and sweaty.

My blood pressure is fine and so is my iron. In England it's like Canada when it's so damp and cold that you need the snow to calm down this. Imagine a november evening when it's about 0-5 celcius and no snow. That's how England is but it never snows!!!! It rains only but it doesn't cut the damp.

And the houses are no where near the isolation you get in Canada and they rarely use the heating therefore the damp goes inside the houses! They just say wear a jumper!

I found 3 things to warm me up: a hot bath, going o the pub and doing the hoover around the house. Now I'm thinking long john's and sheepskin slippers! No way you can be a sexy lady in the house in this country aha
Posted 10/13/2012 6:50 AM (GMT 0)
doing the hoover...lol...my Nanny (Scottish grandmother) used to say that (yes, she did have a Hoover brand vacuum). Cool. Haven't heard that in ages.

I'd say it's the damp as well...especially with the new season arriving.

keep warm!
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