to think I'm not well?

[BurningMam]

I always run cold. I scanned by yellow book before I gave birth and have just checked my temperature record for when I was hospitalised (a lot of my pregnancy) and my temperature was between 35.6 and 36.2 over months of my pregnancy. I've literally never had what is considered to be a temperature - never in my life, no matter how ill I am.
I feel horrific today. Severe abdominal pain and throwing up. My temperature is 37.3 - which is not considered to be an issue by anyone. I'm really struggling with the fact that I'm never considered to be ill and always dismissed by medical professionals because when I have a "temperature" (well above my normal temperature), it's not considered a problem.
Given that we know people run at different temperatures, why does the entire NHS go on the assumption everyone is the same temperature?!

I always feel rough if my temp goes over 37.

Unlikely to be anything serious though, it is only 1 (ish) degree above your normal.

Sympathy though - feeling rough and feverish, is crap whether anyone else is bothered or not.

Sympathy OP- you're definitely not well; with diarrhoea and vomiting, you are objectively ill! However Norovirus and most other nasty sickness bugs either don't cause a fever or cause a very mild one.

@NannyGythaOgg

I always feel rough if my temp goes over 37. Unlikely to be anything serious though, it is only 1 (ish) degree above your normal.

Sympathy though - feeling rough and feverish, is crap whether anyone else is bothered or not.

Thank you. It's mostly just curiosity as to why 37'c is determined to be the norm - from some googling, it's apparently not even based on anything other than a study conducted in the 1800s that's just been blindly believed ever since! I'm somewhat concerned as many workplaces (including my own) won't allow people to go home without a temperature above 37.8, even with a cough so anyone who runs cold would never be permitted to leave and could spread Covid. I don't have a cough and have abdominal pain so it's almost certainly something else but it does make you think.

@Lovely1a2b3c

Sympathy OP- you're definitely not well; with diarrhoea and vomiting, you are objectively ill! However Norovirus and most other nasty sickness bugs either don't cause a fever or cause a very mild one.

It's just odd because it's a fair amount higher than my normal temperature (especially considering that those temperatures were taken in a warm hospital bed). I was told once that people with epilepsy often have lower base temperatures (but no idea if that's true). I'm sat watching the rugby in my underwear, with the windows open and sweating.

This makes a lot of sense. I tend to run cold, usually about 35. I had covid beginning of April. My daughter hadba temperature but the most I ever went to was 37. Yet I felt really hot the entire time.

Where’s the pain, could it be appendicitis? Dd runs cool as well and the GP treated a rise in her temperature as a fever recently even though it was still under the official 37.8.

It’s very silly that medical professionals still don’t check what is normal for individuals, although I bet most people don’t know their own normal. I know my horse’s normal temperature, couldn’t tell you mine!

My daughter runs at 35.8 normally. So did my other daughter until she hit puberty, now she’s an even 37. The arguments I’ve had with doctors about this!!!!

@BurningMam , that makes sense. I have a low normal temperature too and 37 point anything is a fever for me. I guess you should just treat this as a fever. Generally Covid causes quite a high fever (so if you're 36 normally then 38+) though so it's still probably more likely to be Norovirus. All the same it's a good idea to stay home and look after yourself for several days.

Me and my daughter run cold. 37 and we’d be feeling rough.

I'm the same - I know I'm ill if I'm at 37+. My normal temperature usually hovers between 35.8 and 36.3.

@Okbutnotgreat

Where’s the pain, could it be appendicitis? Dd runs cool as well and the GP treated a rise in her temperature as a fever recently even though it was still under the official 37.8.

It's in my upper left quarter - appendix has already gone. Thank you though.