All this from not wearing a coat? What have I done to myself?!

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Went out without a coat today, rushing to get in the car. Went to a high street so lots of time outside. I was probably outside 15 mins in total, in and out of shops, with a bra and thin jumper on. I felt so cold we had to go back to the car. I have been shivering now for hours. Heating is on, still not warm. Had a warm drink. Is this normal? What have I done?

Enough internet for me today 😁
How can an adult not own socks. How have you survived winters this far?

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It was -1. I’m not really one for wearing layers so this has really surprised me.

You don't own socks either? Why don't you own or wear weather appropriate clothes?

If course you were cold if you insist on not wearing a cost and socks.

The frost hasn't lifted from the shaded areas at all today. I wore a heatgen top, jumper, cardigan, coat, gloves, scarf and a hat when I went out and I still felt cold.

I hope you have warned up now.

I go sea swimming most mornings..... you'll live!

You're cold to the bones, have a nice warm bath and soak for a bit

I really want to know what shoes you wear if you don’t own any socks!

I feel like I have a switch. When I get really cold I have to have a hot shower and keep making it hotter until I feel an internal switch and I start to heat up pretty fast. As soon as I feel the flick over, I'm good to get out of the shower. If I get out before that, regardless of how hot the shower was, I'm still cold.

I also layer up. Socks are a must for me if I'm cold. If you're super cold wear a beanie or warm hat. You lose quite a bit of heat out of your head. Then feather doona and heat source eg heat pack or hot water bottle. One for your back, stomach and feet. Heating your core will warm you up. If my feet are cold I'm miserable, so they get heated too.

Why not???

I suspect you have two things going one you got very cold and need to warm up and coincidentally have a cold/virus so feel rubbish.

I would suggest, if you haven't already, going to bed with a hot water bottle and some paracetamol. If you feel no better in the morning phone 111.

I'm just going to echo pp about the socks!
Only a bra and a thin top, no socks - with what - leggings? It's been minus 1°c where I live, wouldn't it occur to most people to put a coat on? I'm quite bamboozled.
Anyway. You've been cold for a long time now, so I hope you're ok.

Same, I'll say to DP 'I just need a bath to defrost!'

If pushed for time a bucket/basin with warm (hot!) water for my feet usually does the trick.

It's important to warm up slowly or you'll end up with chilblains.

It's very cold where I am today, when I get chilled down to my bones it takes ages to warm up properly. Makes me feel quite ill. It's a new thing , must be getting old.

I was thinking more along the lines of a warm shower. As in the usual temperature the OP would have one in the Winter. I don’t think burning herself or going from one extreme temperature to another would be beneficial.

at least you own a bra. All is good in the world

From experience and reports on its errm usefulness I wouldn’t bother with 111.
If it’s bad you need an emergency GP appointment. But don’t let the receptionist decide whether you need one or not. Most GP receptionists are terrific but a few think they are as qualified as a GP by working in the same environment.
You will probably just wake up with an normal bad cold or flu.

Neither do I.

I'm disabled, part of that is sensory issues.

Any shoes I want lol.

In summer ballet flats usually but also sandals. Which are designed to be sockless anyway. When at the beach or on grass etc... then barefoot.

In winter ugg style or winter boots. they never last longer than one winter due to my limp anyway (same with trained although personally I dislike most trainer).

Barefooted in the house.

I don't really get people odd obsession with socks. The funniest thing is the amount of people that say its 'gross' and ill get 'infections' despite never having an infection in my life (and many sock wearers I know have had fungal nail or athletes foot). My feet 'breath' over 90% of the time like they are suppose too, socks are at the crux or it very unnatural (very few other areas of the body do people keep completely covered almost all the time).

An interesting side effect of this is I'm hyper aware and sensitive to where my feet are which means I don't just trudge through stuff with no care unlike DH. He is constantly standing on stuff without noticing, when he takes the bins out at night its like a war zone of squashed slugs then he wears those shoes into the house... gross.

I always have to have a bath to warm my core.

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If there's anyone in your house who are sock wearers then borrow a couple of pairs of those - wear both pairs at the same times me. If you have a woolly hat wear that too plus a warm sweater/body warmer/oodi. If you have hot water bottles a couple of those, one at your feet and one on your chest or your back will help. If you have fingerless gloves/wrist warmers these also help. If you're able to lie under a warm duvet do that too! 🌹

How do you think people get hypothermia? Being inappropriately dressed for the environment you are in in pretty much exactly how most cases happen. Hypothermia just means your core body temperature has got too low. You don’t need to be outdoors naked in the sub zero temperatures for it to happen to you.

If she had hypothermia she wouldn't be able to post on here. She's cold its winter

I don't really get people odd obsession with socks.

I wear socks at this time of year because my feet feel cold if I don't, no matter what footwear I have on my feet. Simple really.

If my feet are cold I am cold and miserable. I hate having cold feet.

You don't own socks?
I'm in a house and I have socks, slippers, a jumper and a long, thick cardigan on. And jeans. You just got very cold, that's all. Hot drinks won't warm you up that much. How can you have got to adulthood without knowing how to dress properly or to warm up when you've got cold?!

Hypothermia is literally just getting too cold for too long to the point you’re body can’t warm itself up again. There’s a clinical definition - core body temp of less than 35’c. Normal core temperature is about 37’c. The treatment for mild hypothermia is all the stuff people have been describing here - getting out of the cold, adding layers of clothing, warm drinks, getting close to someone else so their body heat will help you get your temperature up again.
There are more extreme treatments that happen in hospital for more extreme drops in core temperature.
As many PPs have said already, OP may well actually have had a fever - a core body temp that’s higher than the normal range. This makes you feel cold. But she might have managed to drop her body temp bellow 37’c - maybe not all the way to 35’c so not technically hypothermia, or maybe she did get that cold but not cold enough to cause worse effects that hours of shivering and trouble regaining a normal temperature.
Being cold is not an inevitably in winter. If you’re cold (and it’s not a fever) you have to change something to fix it. Or it’s a problem. If you can’t fix it, you’re at risk for hypothermia.

Exactly the change is put a coat on when going out in winter and wear socks not ring 111 because you think you have hypothermia or sepsis like previous posters have suggested

Not are a northern lass are you...