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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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ilovesooty · 20/11/2025 11:01

HeidiLite · 20/11/2025 10:58

Posters recommending heaters and heated blankets - OPs father will not allow her to use them.

Nothing to stop her using one in her own room at home and putting it in a bag and taking it to the office. Except, as you say, her father won't allow it, which is apparently OK because he had a deprived childhood.

NuffSaidSam · 20/11/2025 11:00

ColdToesandWarmHeart · 20/11/2025 10:44

ive not said its that cold in my office or gym.

to be fair someone else in the office has said its cold so maybe its not just me 😂

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And you can't get warm there either...and that's my point. But listen, I'm not going to come round to your house and march you to the GP. I think we both know that the inability to be warm at all, to be so cold that you're crying with distress, is out of the ordinary, it's a symptom in a number of health complaints.

I've missed the 7 degrees at home bit, but this suggests poor mental health as well. If I were you I'd see a GP (and buy an electric heater) because I would want to help myself and not carry on suffering. You know this isn't weather based because everyone else isn't suffering in the same way. It's a you issue.

If you're getting what you need from these threads then I'm glad we could all help.

MargoLivebetter · 20/11/2025 10:58

@HeidiLite how is he going to know that she is using it at the office?

HeidiLite · 20/11/2025 10:58

Posters recommending heaters and heated blankets - OPs father will not allow her to use them.

MargoLivebetter · 20/11/2025 10:55

I'm always cold. I have recently bought a heated blanket and it has transformed my life!!!!! I turn into an ice block at my desk, even when it is quite mild, so in the winter, I literally feel like I am made of ice permanently.

BUT NOT ANYMORE!!! The blanket folds up to a very reasonable size, so it could easily go into a gym bag and into the office. I promise you @ColdToesandWarmHeart it will be the best money you'll ever spend. Plug it in, wrap it around you and you will be toasty all day.

IMustDoMoreExercise · 20/11/2025 10:51

ColdToesandWarmHeart · 19/11/2025 22:14

I layered today and was still cold - tight bottom layer, a jumper and a fleece.

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I wear several layers of thermals both tops and bottoms. It makes a big difference.

CautiousLurker2 · 20/11/2025 10:49

Have you had your thyroid function checked? I’m hypo thyroid, one of the symptoms being I feel the cold. Layer up even in the house with the heating on. Have felt it got worse since I lost weight using Ozempic and Mounjaro, but I think that is as much due to having less fat than the impact of the medication.

Cherrytree86 · 20/11/2025 10:48

People on mumsnet tend not to be very sympathetic towards people on WL jabs, OP. Pay them no heed.

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ColdToesandWarmHeart · 20/11/2025 10:44

NuffSaidSam · 20/11/2025 10:42

Even at that temperature you could be warm in bed wrapped up, under blankets etc.

Although, I've missed the drip feed where OP told us that's it's 7 degrees in her house, in the office and at the gym! How unfortunate for her!

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ive not said its that cold in my office or gym.

to be fair someone else in the office has said its cold so maybe its not just me 😂

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Cherrytree86 · 20/11/2025 10:44

ColdToesandWarmHeart · 20/11/2025 06:47

For me, I work for the NHS. Yes it’s uncomfortable being cold but I’d rather the money went to the patients to be honest.

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@ColdToesandWarmHeart

NHS workers shouldn’t have to be saintly martyrs…we pay enough in taxes to allow for good patient care AND for staff to be comfortable and warm.

NuffSaidSam · 20/11/2025 10:42

HeidiLite · 20/11/2025 10:31

7-11 degrees indoors IS that cold.

Even at that temperature you could be warm in bed wrapped up, under blankets etc.

Although, I've missed the drip feed where OP told us that's it's 7 degrees in her house, in the office and at the gym! How unfortunate for her!

travailtotravel · 20/11/2025 10:38

I lost a bunch of weight and have become a person who feels the cold. Light wool/merino layers,long sleeve tops under jumpers, tights under trousers. A vest, even.all these are now your friends. For sitting still in an office warm socks is key.

Sunshineandrainbow · 20/11/2025 10:38

KellsBells7 · 20/11/2025 10:23

I have an electric foot warmer under my desk, I turn it in as soon as I start work and find it really helps. My hands are always freezing, but I can’t work in gloves.

Have you tried fingerless gloves?

NuffSaidSam · 20/11/2025 10:38

ColdToesandWarmHeart · 20/11/2025 10:29

It’s been hovering around feels like 0 or -1°, and we have a horrid easterly wind coming in. I live on the coast so an easterly wind goes right through you. Sometimes the wind chill can take 10° off the temperature

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I'm not denying it's cold OP, but being in bed crying with distress, getting out of the bath and the heat draining from you, not getting warm while working out at the gym, not being warm no matter how many layers/blankets you have etc isn't a healthy physical response to cold weather.

It's the same temperature where I am. It's cold outside. It's not cold in my house wrapped up in layers, under my duvet. 0 degrees outside doesn't make anyone's house so cold that a healthy person can't warm up at all.

There is something else going on, maybe the Monjaro, maybe a health issue or maybe there has been a drip feed that you live outside/in an igloo/are a nudist. But it's is not normal to not be able to get warm no matter what you do.

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ColdToesandWarmHeart · 20/11/2025 10:35

SharonEllis · 20/11/2025 10:33

Do you gave access to the NHS website?

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Just googled. None of the symptoms other than being cold

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SharonEllis · 20/11/2025 10:33

ColdToesandWarmHeart · 20/11/2025 10:33

I don’t know, I don’t know what the symptoms are

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Do you gave access to the NHS website?

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ColdToesandWarmHeart · 20/11/2025 10:33

MincePiesAllRoundPlz · 20/11/2025 10:32

Is this now about your home life or work?

What temp is the office?
You will have a union rep at work as it's the NHS, so you can contact them. It's illegal to work in freezing temps. If you can't be bothered to deal with this, you will have to put up with it, but there are clear guidelines on minimum temps.

If you feel really cold all the time maybe you need to see your GP and get your thyroid tested. Do you have other symptoms of a low under active thyroid?

I don’t know, I don’t know what the symptoms are

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MincePiesAllRoundPlz · 20/11/2025 10:32

Is this now about your home life or work?

What temp is the office?
You will have a union rep at work as it's the NHS, so you can contact them. It's illegal to work in freezing temps. If you can't be bothered to deal with this, you will have to put up with it, but there are clear guidelines on minimum temps.

If you feel really cold all the time maybe you need to see your GP and get your thyroid tested. Do you have other symptoms of a low under active thyroid?

HeidiLite · 20/11/2025 10:31

7-11 degrees indoors IS that cold.

Cherrytree86 · 20/11/2025 10:31

NuffSaidSam · 19/11/2025 23:11

It's not that cold. I think it definitely sounds like the OP is under the weather in some way (as I told her on her other thread).

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@NuffSaidSam

It IS that cold.

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ColdToesandWarmHeart · 20/11/2025 10:29

NuffSaidSam · 20/11/2025 10:28

I don't know if you've read all the OP's posts on both threads, but no, it's isn't THAT cold to be as distressed as she is at the moment.

If you're equally as completely unable to warm up as the OP, I'd suggest you also see a GP.

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It’s been hovering around feels like 0 or -1°, and we have a horrid easterly wind coming in. I live on the coast so an easterly wind goes right through you. Sometimes the wind chill can take 10° off the temperature

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NuffSaidSam · 20/11/2025 10:28

Cherrytree86 · 20/11/2025 10:24

@NuffSaidSam

It IS that cold.

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I don't know if you've read all the OP's posts on both threads, but no, it's isn't THAT cold to be as distressed as she is at the moment.

If you're equally as completely unable to warm up as the OP, I'd suggest you also see a GP.

isthesolution · 20/11/2025 10:26

Heated blanket

ilovesooty · 20/11/2025 10:25

ColdToesandWarmHeart · 20/11/2025 10:19

Pretty sure I used to talk about it as a kid and nobody ever got involved.

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Times and awareness of safeguarding have changed.

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