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.

I’d want to get myself checked out if I was unable to ever get warm, despite multiple layers, blankets, exercising etc.

I think Mounjaro is behind this. I don't know why it is but my male relative who as been on the injections is exactly the same. Freezing cold all the time. Icy cold hands to touch. After running hot all his life. I don't know if it's just the rapid weight loss means your body hasn't had time to adjust or something specific about the way it works. You need a thread specifically about feeling freezing on / after mounjaro I think.
as a side note, I do recommend fingerless gloves if you need to be typing in a office.

If it is that it seems quite concerning.
Are there longitudinal studies on weight loss drugs?

I'm on MJ and really feel the cold. I've only lost about 3 stone, if that, but my BMI has dropped from 27.5 to 21.

Our office is a great temperature but sadly I'm only in there once a fortnight. I WFH most of the time and it's freezing. Yesterday the house was below 15C and I couldn't get warm no matter how many layers I wear. In the end I put the central heating on. We tend not to do that during the day as it seems wasteful/expensive but I caved.

I went into the office last week and got a puncture on the way - pothole on a narrow country lane. Luckily the mobile tyre fitter came out within 30 minutes to deal with it, but it did make me think that, if it had happened on the motorway, I would have had to wait behind the crash barrier in my work clothes and would have frozen.

I keep some old stuff in my car - gloves, woolly hat, and a waterproof thick high viz jacket. Just in case!

I am cold all the time, I always have been. For me the key is to keep my feet warm. If they get cold there is no warming me back up with just clothes, I need some sort of external heat like a fire, hot water bottle etc. From about Sept onwards its two pairs of socks as standard and then those huge slipper socks on top of that for bed time. I work for the NHS too and often wear fingerless gloves to type.

I think loosish layers is the way to go, as the warm air gets held between the layers better that way.

Try sheepskin lined socks like these. Can you import your own fan heater, both at home and in the office?

I’m on MJ and also freezing all the time. this cold snap is really getting me.
here is how I manage-

I have a hot bath in the morning, to warm my bones. My clothes are on the radiator and I dry and dress quickly to trap my body heat.
thermal tights under trousers, socks and warm boots. Thin strappy vest, thin thermal long sleeved top and thick jumper on top.

if travelling to work, I prepare a hot water bottle and have a radiator warmed blanket for on knee when driving. Gloves and a hat in the car along with thick coat.optional (if have time) warm the car up before I get in by running engine.

i drink hot water though the day, and refill my hot water bottle a few times.

blanket on my office chair. Blanket on my knee.

gilet over jumper when I take my coat off.
fingerless gloves are an option (can still type with them on).

small portable heater right next to me.

if WFH all of the above plus an electric heated fleece blanket wrapped around me at my home desk. I could technically this to the office too.

for me (on MJ) the key is not to get cold in the first place, as I struggle to warm back up. So hot bath gets me toasty and I trap the heat in. When WFH I’ve been known to periodically blast myself with hairdryer under my jumper to warm back up !

🙄 always one

You probably won't be able to use anything that needs to be plugged in when you are at work so focus on clothes, layers, make sure you add a scarf or neck gaiter, fingerless gloves, down gilet, wool or sheepskin insoles in your boots.

A hot water bottle or microwave heat pack is normally possible to use in the office and will help you warm up. I wedge my hot water bottle between my thick outer jumper and my thinner under layers so I really feel the benefit.

Lots of hot drinks, make a flask if you aren't able to access a kettle regularly.

When you leave your desk include a brisk jog up and down the stairs or do some star jumps while nobody is looking to get the blood circulating

Is it an unreasonable question?

Could you buy a fan heater for your room at home and an electric blanket and then offer your parents some extra money?

No. He won’t allow them.

I wear a thermal layer and always have an extra jumper or jacket with me, I swear someone needs to make a heated mouse and keyboard. Also nice to have a flask of warm drink, even if its decafe or fruit tea.

We are building services engineers but still our AC is always baltic :P

I haven't read the full thread, but the office is supposed to be at least 16 degrees centigrade www.hse.gov.uk/temperature/employer/the-law.htm. So I would quietly bring in a thermometer and measure it. If it is less than 16 degrees, then they need to do something about the heating.

If above 16 degrees, NHS probably wouldn't want you to bring a heater in from home as that would need to be approved by Estates, in places where I've worked. However you can get jackets and gilets that you can plug into a powerbank, that would keep you warmer, and I would seriously consider one of those if I still felt cold.

A heated throw costs pennies per hour to run. Just get one. What's going to happen if you do?

You haven't said what the office temperature is.

You are taking a drug that is causing significant and rapid weight loss from your body. You are very unlikely to be absorbing sufficient nuritirents. At the very least you should be taking a quality high dose vitamin and mineral supplement, you are likely to need much higher than the daily dose because the drug is preventing absorption. You might benefit from taking double dose of spatone / ferrotone, coconut water with honey and lemon juice to replace electrolytes, Mag365 is a good source of magnesium and high doses of vitamin C (Solgar ester C for example), and probably some leafy greens and bone broth. Your body is not getting enough fuel to keep you warm.

Maybe take a look at some of the power greens. https://harrietsbotanicals.co.ke/the-mighty-greens-moringa-spirulina-and-chlorella/

But eating some highly nutritious food might help... eggs, bone broth, chicken, spinach, sprouted seeds, beetroot, carrots, broccoli.

He’d throw it away.

I don’t know the temperature of the office. I don’t tend to carry a thermometer

I eat 1400 calories a day and tak supplements

I had similar when I lost weight. I would lie in bed at night in long johns, a fleece jacket, socks, Uggs and a hat. And I'd shake for an hour before I warmed up.

Its the body fat thing.

So get one? You don't seem prepared to help yourself at all, you're dismissive of sensible suggestions. What magic solution were you expecting to materialise out of this thread?

I'm on mounjaro too and definitely struggling with the cold more this year.

I bought a cheap pair of fleece lined leggings from ali express to fill up my basket and have been wearing them the last couple of days, and they are toasty.

Well get yourself a thermometer so you know whether the cold is a you issue or a heating issue.

If your Dad is refusing to heat the house to a reasonable minimum then he risks damaging the fabric of the building which if he owns the house is more expensive than putting the heating on. If he's a tenant then he is probably obliged by the tenancy agreement to heat the property to a reasonable level to prevent damp.

Check the temperature so you can have a reasonable discussion.

If your Dad is keeping the house unreasonably cold, below about 16C deliberately despite requests then he's abusive and you should take steps to move out.

i do think it’s a me issue because nobody around me seems this cold.

the house isn’t damp, but he keeps it around 11-12 degrees. This morning it was 7 when I woke up. Around 11 when the heating had been on for its half an hour

Any plans to move out?? 😂