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To ask how you survive this cold as an office worker?

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ColdToesandWarmHeart · 19/11/2025 22:11

I don’t know what’s wrong with me but I am freezing. Down to my bones. I have a heating pad under my jumper and a blanket on me and I finally feel warm for the first time this week.

I have ordered a hot water bottle but I don’t know what else I can do. I’m freezing. I’m on Mounjaro so I think it’s that, but I’m just so miserable.

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mirrorsandlights · 19/11/2025 22:51

BotterMon · 19/11/2025 22:43

We haven't had time to adapt as it's gone from unseasonably warm to fecking freezing within 48 hours.
Heated gilet!

Heated gilets are great. The batteries are rechargeable so you could charge it at work.

DoYouReally · 19/11/2025 22:50

Fleeced lined tights under trousers and socks over them if shoes allow.

If my feet are cold, nothing will warm me up.

Also, a scarf too.

Time4changeagain · 19/11/2025 22:49

I was freezing last year through the winter while taking MJ… It’s definitely a side effect that a lot of people have 🫤

Friendlyfart · 19/11/2025 22:48

I’ve worked in some freezing offices! Thermals - long johns and long-sleeved thermal vests - layers. Prob cos they’ve all been public sector/charities and no money for decent heating system!!

Ap42 · 19/11/2025 22:47

No advice , but I feel your pain. Also on monjaro and its the only side effect i've had but its exactly as you described, cold to my bones.

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ColdToesandWarmHeart · 19/11/2025 22:45

BotterMon · 19/11/2025 22:43

We haven't had time to adapt as it's gone from unseasonably warm to fecking freezing within 48 hours.
Heated gilet!

This is also true. 15° on Sunday to -5 today!

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OSTMusTisNT · 19/11/2025 22:45

Layers are the key. I used to wear a cotton/lycra vest top, then long sleeved thermals, a proper wool jumper and had a Gillet, fingerless gloves, blanket and hot water bottle in the office just in case. Tuck the vest into your pants and tuck the thermals into your trousers! Lots of hot drinks too, ginger tea always had a warming sensation.

Avoid anything that will make you sweat like acrylic jumpers. Proper wool is the way to go and hardly ever needs washing.

(Used to work in an open plan Council building which had 1960's heating and was generally running at 10 degrees. Under the legal limit but no one prepared to walk out as ultimately we needed a job.)

BotterMon · 19/11/2025 22:43

We haven't had time to adapt as it's gone from unseasonably warm to fecking freezing within 48 hours.
Heated gilet!

Ineffable23 · 19/11/2025 22:43

I was So Cold when I was taking mounjaro and I didn't even take it all winter.

When I am working in winter I wear:

Thermal leggings, then sometimes jogging bottoms on top, or if I am in the office I have a long wool dress I sometimes wear.

On the top half: A vest. Then a long sleeved thermal vest. Then a top. Then a cashmere jumper. Then I have a cardigan I can put on top of that if necessary.

I wear woollen socks as well, and either wool slippers or lined boots.

If you suffer from cold hands it may be worth adding wrist warmers into the mix.

I still then sometimes put a blanket over my knees at home and I have a little electric heating pad which plugs in as well.

When I worked in the office I would sometimes go and climb four flights of stairs (to get to the top floor) then comes straight back down and make a hot drink. Just something to get the blood flowing again really.

ProfRedLorryYellowLorry · 19/11/2025 22:43

Blackbookofsmiles1 · 19/11/2025 22:41

Body fat keeps you warm, if this is your first winter having lost a significant amount, you will notice it. Welcome to the cold club…..it sucks.

I do think it is also an effect of the Mounjaro. DH still has loads more body fat than me, and he's a man obvs, and yet he gets colder than me. Which has never happened before Mounjaro! Even when he was thinner, years ago.

TidyCyan · 19/11/2025 22:41

I work in an old Georgian building with the door open (it's a reception - the inner door is closed) and I wear Primark fleece leggings under my trousers and thermal cashmere wrist warmers.

Blackbookofsmiles1 · 19/11/2025 22:41

Body fat keeps you warm, if this is your first winter having lost a significant amount, you will notice it. Welcome to the cold club…..it sucks.

Dappy777 · 19/11/2025 22:41

Weirdly, I love this cold weather. There is a pub near me with an open log fire. Such a pleasure to go in there at lunchtime. So Dickensian. Then again, I hate the heat and whinge constantly during the hot weather. Must have been a snowman in a previous life.

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ColdToesandWarmHeart · 19/11/2025 22:39

Cherrytree86 · 19/11/2025 22:36

@Homegrownberries

no, it’s just the fact that it’s fucking dreadfully freezing in the Uk. Her iron levels could be brilliant and she’ll still feel cold…because it is cold.

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Fucking dreadfully freezing is a great way to put it

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ColdToesandWarmHeart · 19/11/2025 22:38

ProfRedLorryYellowLorry · 19/11/2025 22:36

You can literally put them in the washing machine these days. Time to move on!

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Wait, whaaaaaat

runs to Amazon

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ProfRedLorryYellowLorry · 19/11/2025 22:36

ColdToesandWarmHeart · 19/11/2025 22:33

I’ve wanted one for years. My mum has scared me off them by convincing me as a child that they’d start a house fire!

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You can literally put them in the washing machine these days. Time to move on!

Cherrytree86 · 19/11/2025 22:36

Homegrownberries · 19/11/2025 22:17

Any chance your iron is low?

@Homegrownberries

no, it’s just the fact that it’s fucking dreadfully freezing in the Uk. Her iron levels could be brilliant and she’ll still feel cold…because it is cold.

RaininSummer · 19/11/2025 22:35

I put a hot water bottle on my lap and a long, thick pure wool button up cardigan. Full length boots and thick leggings under my dress. Lots of hot drinks too. It's the sitting so still which really makes me cold and then my joints start to hurt and I hobble about like an old lady. Hate winter.

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ColdToesandWarmHeart · 19/11/2025 22:33

ProfRedLorryYellowLorry · 19/11/2025 22:28

You need an electric blanket, not a hot water bottle!

I’ve wanted one for years. My mum has scared me off them by convincing me as a child that they’d start a house fire!

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ColdToesandWarmHeart · 19/11/2025 22:33

SweetnsourNZ · 19/11/2025 22:28

Do you find it hard to heat up after getting cold? Could be Reynards disease which is quite common in females. Your doctor can give you some medication to help your circulation if you need it. I feel the cold too. So glad it's coming into summer here now.

I do, but I don’t think it’s that. It’s only really this year this has happened.

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ProfRedLorryYellowLorry · 19/11/2025 22:28

You need an electric blanket, not a hot water bottle!

SweetnsourNZ · 19/11/2025 22:28

Do you find it hard to heat up after getting cold? Could be Reynards disease which is quite common in females. Your doctor can give you some medication to help your circulation if you need it. I feel the cold too. So glad it's coming into summer here now.

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ColdToesandWarmHeart · 19/11/2025 22:25

ProfRedLorryYellowLorry · 19/11/2025 22:24

My absolute solution for that bones coldness is a hot bath. And an electric blanket.

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I’ve had a bath and it’s done nothing. It’s like the second I get out, the heat leaves my body

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