To ask how you survive this cold as an office worker?

[ColdToesandWarmHeart]

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.

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

Do you gave access to the NHS website?

Just googled. None of the symptoms other than being cold

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.

Have you tried fingerless gloves?

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.

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!

@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.

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 😂

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

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.

I have one of these under my desk
CURVED FREE STANDING 300W FAR INFRARED HEATING PANEL - PERFECT FOR DESKS OFFICE WINTER HEAT : Amazon.co.uk: Home & Kitchen

It is amazing and I never feel cold when I have it on even when it's freezing

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

I just can’t imagine strolling into the office with a heated blanket 😂 I’m tempted to get one, but then what I do with a hot water bottle at night is wrap it in a blanket and let it sit in bed for half an hour. So that might do the same?

Uniqlo heat tech leggings and top under everything. If it's absolutely freezing I put tights on under the leggings. Then layers. Last time it was very very cold I think I was wearing about four layers of clothing, but it works.

I might grab some of these to be fair, just get it over with

I wear more clothes.

Someone thought they were "dressing warmly" earlier in the thread and described their top half as having three layers. No. You need to start with a thermal layer, including longjohns/warm tights, then add a couple more light layers before outer layers. And a scarf/polo neck is really important, because cold necks get everything else cold. None of those daft ¾ length sleeves either. You need your sleeves to cover half your hands.

Honestly, if you feel as cold as you're describing, wear more clothes.

Get a thorough blood test done its not normal to get cold to the bone.... iron throid b12 all spring to mind. At least rule out any healrh issue. Hope you can warm up soon.

He is prioritising spending money on exotic holidays over the health and wellbeing of his child.

If a child was crying with pain because their shoes were too small but their father wouldn't buy them a new pair because they aren't worn out and he doesn't like waste, despite being happy to spend money on longhaul holidays then most people would agree that is abusive.

Likewise if the child was crying with hunger but the parent refused to buy more food despite having the means then that would be abusive.

You say you are crying with cold and living in a house cold enough to cause health problems. Your father can afford to heat the property to minimum healthy levels. He refuses to do so but his happy to waste money on holidays.

If you are being honest then he's abusive.

That you can't see the abuse suggests he's been gaslighting you all your life and you think it is normal.

Move out urgently. Into a shared house if that's all you can afford. You will be healthier and happier.