To wonder why I am always freezing?

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I’ve always felt the cold but it seems to be getting worse. It’s got to the point now where I’m anxious about going to other peoples houses because I can’t cope with the temperature. Luckily I live in a particularly warm house. It’s mid terrace and has amazing insulation but even still, I can be cold, even with having jumpers on, sheepskin slippers and being under a blanket.

It is starting to really frustrate me. I find anything under around 22 degrees pretty unbearable. At night I wear jogging bottoms and a jumper to bed as well as thermal socks and I sometimes still wake up cold.

It’s starting to become such a problem for me. I mean, it’s rude to keep your jacket on when visiting friends but no matter how much I wrap up, I just find other peoples houses uncomfortably cold.

I just don’t understand why I’m always so cold in temperatures that everyone else seem to find perfectly fine.

I have suffer from Raynauds and Im always very cold. It does get on my nerves a bit too, I do crave being warm and can find cold air and wind painful.
My hands are always like ice, my fingers can go white despite having several layers on a thin pair of gloves and ski gloves on top. I can go for a run and at the end my hands and feet are still ice cold. Yes op it can be frustrating. You have my sympathy!!!!

@BeatriceTheBeast don’t worry, no offence taken. I’m not a drinker. I only drink on the odd occasion. I wouldn’t say I have the healthiest diet. I do cook fresh dinners about 4 nights a week and eat porridge & fruit for breakfast. I do eat too much chocolate but I wouldn’t have thought I’d be malnourished.

Ah fair enough op. Definitely glad you got an appointment with the GP. Hope they can help!

I was thinking of starting this thread yesterday but my BMi is 17 so that's probably it. I keep my coat and slippers on at my Dad's house 24/7!

I'm hypermobile and there is another thing that can go along with it that makes it hard to regulate temperature and other difficulties.

I wear two thermal base layers, wool layer, t shirt jumper and a couple of fleeces and can still be cold.

You could be my long-lost sister from that OP - I have Raynaud's, incidentally.

Bugs me when people say "just put on an extra jumper!" because I don't actually find it helps. When I've gotten really cold, the only thing that helps us getting into a hot bath or shower. ATM my heating is set to 22 degrees, I'm wearing heat tech stuff under jeans and a jumper, thermal socks, boots and a big blanket scarf - and I'm still cold. 🥶

Sympathy OP, I am like this too. It's so miserable.
I sit to work at home. When I get up to wait for kids at the gate I freeze, particularly bad time of day.

I've just invested in the extra ultra warm thermals from Uniqlo which are good but my extremeties still suffer.
I think I've got some raynauds going on too...

Look at Uniqlo range.

I'm the same - it's ever since I lost weight. I used to have BMI of around 25 and was always warm. Now my BMI is 19 and I'm always freezing! I live in a 1 bed flat and have my heating on ALL evening. I'd guess the temperature is around 26-27? I hate being in other people's houses with their stone floors and 18 degree thermostats. I always bring a scarf and woolly socks.

I dropped a fair bit of weight a few years ago, and noticed my ability to cope with the cold was much reduced.

If I'm on a diet I also feel the cold much more. Calorie deficit is the obvious one to look at.

I second getting your thyroid checked. I am the same OP. Always freezing. I have an under active thyroid. Other symptoms for me were hair loss, tiredness and mental fuzziness.
No point in me buying T shirts or blouses as I always end up with a sweatshirt or cardigan over the top.

See, my BMI has varied from 27 to (currently) 21, and it's made no damn difference - I was still freezing was overweight.

I’m always cold. I keep my coat on all day at work, and as soon as I’m home my dressing gown goes over my clothes, everyone else in the house is melting

I’m not worried though, I’ve always felt the cold, I take after my mom.

I would get it checked out with the docs for definite. i used to be a very cold person, i grew up in a house where the haating was always on, always freezing and when i moved out, struggled with the cold (As couldn't afford to have it on the whole time and it was an old house) I found though that my body slowely climatised to my envrionment. Things have improved imensly finacial wise so now afford proper heating and well insulated but not as cold as used to be. When i go home now i actually die with the heat,. Its the same when peope move abroad their bodies get used to the weather there

So you spend a lot of time sitting still? If I don't move around a lot I get cold and I've noticed that whenever people say they are cold indoors, they haven't moved for quite a while.

Definitely ask your doctor to check your thyroid function. An under active thyroid causes among other things, the feeling of being cold all the bloody time, fatigue, and joyful bouts of severe low energy when it feels like you can barely drag yourself out of bed in the morning. It can be managed to an extent with medication but takes a few months to settle into your system.

gp visit is a good idea.

I'm always cold. I usually carry a cardigan and socks with me when visiting friends. I feel like I never can get warm again once I'm cold.

I'm sitting on the sofa under a blanket whilst the dc are in short sleeves...

exercise outside helps a little, but I also feel it getting worse when iron is low. and then I take an over the counter supplement (gp advised me to)

I’m always cold too. I wear the m and a heather thermal tops every day from September to may, under knitted tops. I have loads of them. Some are fleece lined, they’re my favourites. I also wear m and s navy boys thermal school socks every day ( 3 pack for about £8). If I’m wearing tights, they’re always 200 denier and fleece lined. Obviously wear slippers at all times indoors.

I have always felt the cold but I think I am probably anaemic. I don’t think it is reynauds as its not my extremities that’s feel cold, and they don’t shrivel or turn blue or anything. I just feel cold all over.

Get your thyroid checked, I've just been diagnosed with underactive thyroid & I'm always frozen. Today I'm wearing thick winter pjs & a really thick hoody, I suffer from ME/CFS, Fibromyalgia & Raynauds as well.

Are you v slim with no body fat?

Raynards is extremities. Cold hands. Cold feet. Tip of nose. That’s to do with blood flows constricting. Wouldn’t cause overall coldness (I have raynards)! It’s more gust of wind. Numb fingers really.

Two things. Thyroid. And anemia.

I have extremely severe ranyards though. So I’m probably not the best for advice. Doesn’t make me cold overall though

@Mrshue I’m sure you’re right. Don’t get me wrong, my hands and feet do get cold but I’d say the issue is generally feeling cold all over.

Try lots of thin layers of clothes rather than a couple of thicker ones, as they'll trap air between them.

Also try gloves and a hat of some description. Gloves that are touch screen compatible or leave the tips of your fingers uncovered are most useful for me when at home and needing to use my hands to do things.

battery or self heating gloves/insoles/body warmer might help, see eg. srukshop.co.uk/

An electric blanket might help overnight - mine is a model that can be safely left on overnight.

Look at draughtproofing at home - even somewhere well insulated can feel cold if there are draughts from floorboards/windows etc.

Hot drinks are good.

An alarm to get up and move about every hour or so might help - sometimes not moving makes me feel colder.

I have an electric heating pad that sits behind me on the sofa [I currently have dysfunctional radiators in my house, so my living room is at about 15 degrees, unless I use a fan heater]

You might take a hot water bottle / wheat pillow that you heat in the microwave to your friends' houses. And a smallish blanket for curling up under rather than your coat. Maybe being unusually cold can become one of your quirky things, rather than something that makes it too difficult to see friends. Nobody who likes you would want you to be cold, even if their comfort levels are different.

I am exactly the same. I have an appointment weekly in an outdoor summer house and if I have the first appointment of the day, even with the heater on I wear my coat, gloves and scarf.

I am always cold even at home and have recently started suffering chilblains!

I have in recent years started to really suffer with the heat as well though.

P.s my thyroid and iron is fine. My BMI is 23.