To wish I wasn't always cold?!

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I know there are bigger things to wish for, but is there anyone else who is always cold? Please tell me at least I'll be glad of this come the menopause?!

If I don't have socks and slippers on, I'm freezing. I wear layers and vests and body warmers and wrist warmers and all that. But wish I could feel warm in summer clothes like the rest of the world seems to on a sunny day. I'm sure it's why I feel knackered all the time because its exhausting being cold.

Is there anyway to make myself into a hotter person?

Have your thyroid checked. A common symptom of an underactive thyroid is heightened sensitivity to cold.

I'm always cold. I've seen my body on a thermal camera and I was mostly blue! Dh, standing next to me, was red and orange.

The menopause didn't help - no symptoms at all.

An underactive thyroidcan make you feel cold. Any other symptoms - weight gain, tiredness, depression, memory/concentration, dry skin or hair loss?

I’ve always been a cold person. DH thinks I’m part-reptile

Me too OP. I long for summer. I'm sitting on the sofa under a blanket wearing a vest, thermal and cashmere jumper! I've always been a cold person.

Have you had your iron levels checked? I'm usually cold, worse when iron is low.

me im cold all the time and i do have a underactive thyroid

@SerenDippitty I have all of those, and a TSH of 7... so under active plus antibodies showing my body is attacking my thyroid
Will they medicate me? Will they bollocks. Because my TSH is under 10

Me, even with an overactive thyroid (even when it was undiagnosed therefore untreated)

I know mine is largely psychological, a fear of being cold, but also have Raynauds so at least there’s something to show people. Got really into that cold water man, is it Wimhof or something? and now regularly have a blast of icy water after a shower. Which hasn’t helped but makes me feel heroic.

@ClientQ. GPS have a terrible attitude to it I find. The numbers are all that count rather than how the patient actually feels.

Am menopausal and either roasting or freezing - very rarely just right!!

I'm always cold too. I walk around the office bundled up in a blanket and a lot of people comment. At least now I can freeze in the privacy of my own home.

I'm always cold and I also have an underactive thyroid.

I'm the total opposite. Always hot to the point of sweating, can only wear dark clothes to hide any sweat marks, use the strongest antiperspirants, can't go outside into the sun, nothing can cool me down.

I’m always cold too - my favourite thing in the world is my electric overblanket.

I think the thinner you are the more likely you are to feel cold.

Oh - I have hypothyroidism and a pituitary tumour, as well as other medical conditions.

Chinese medicine has hot and cold in it. Acupuncture can help a bit but can’t work miracles. I had two exes whose houses were like fridges. Every window open for healthy fresh air. That’s fine and dandy but I had to wear layers when there as it was Baltic. My thighs were like ice as they only had jeans on them but they rest if my body had layers! Brrr. Glad I’m not dating them now in lockdown. I’d freeze to death.

Thanks all, Elieza yes I often have cold legs as they are harder to layer!

I have blood tests about every year and everything always comes back low end of normal, I probably should improve my diet and remember to take vitamins (yawn).

I was always skinny until having children and now I am average/slim in the right light!

I think I'm just feeble and I'm sure if I felt warm it would be better. On foreign sunny holidays I feel like a different person, healthy and well and warm!

Do you feel you are a bit snottery and bunged up a lot of the time? Like you have the cold a lot?

Elieza yes I do. Been googling Chinese medicine, think I need lots of ginger!

Ginger does help but dont go OTT! That’s what my acupuncturist told me!

You shouldn’t eat damp foods (google that in Chinese medicine as there is a list. It’s impossible to guess, it’s not based on if they feel wet). You need the opposite.

And foods that are served cold are not the best for us unless it’s summer, warm or hot is better in damp or cold weather.

The biggest difference I have found is cutting out dairy. No butter on my toast (not vegan butter either), no milk in my tea, no cheese, creamy sauces etc.

I have fewer colds. Turns out the running nose abs bunged up feeling wasn’t always the cold, a lot of the time is was my body producing phlegm because I loved dairy but it didn’t live me. I had no idea it was causing my ‘colds’ so this was a great revelation.

I go for acupuncture monthly and it’s the first place I will be making an appointment with after lockdown as it helps balance me.

I’d recommend it as they can do things western medicine can’t do. Chinese herbs can be helpful too but western people don’t seem to need as much as Chinese people. They can over power western bodies apparently! So go easy if you’re recommended them by a Chinese medicine herbalist!