Did you one day just find you run hotter than you used to

[Pavementworrier]

Not hot flashes more like you just don't need the heating up so high and pyjamas that used to be cosy become stifling

Happened to me about five years ago and tbh I miss enjoying snuggly jumpers etc! And heavy duvets.

If it did happen did you ever go back?

Yes, but then I was diagnosed with IBD and night sweats are a key thing, then the early menopause hit too. 😂

I otherwise feel fine but do worry it could be a sign my organs are all aflame or sthg

This happened to me a few years ago. The night sweats are what sent me to the doctor. It turns out, I too have an autoimmune disease. The high body temp and night sweats are calm whenever I receive treatment. As soon as I stop, they come back with a vengeance.

Was this your only symptom?

Hm I wondered if it could be thyroid but everything else seems normal

Yes, I've got it. I've always been a bit of a hot bod, but this last year it's getting ridiculous. I'm gerring very hot even after very little exertion.

What can be done?

Yep, mine coincided with weight gain

I’m the same over the past few years. I have to ask visitors if they’re cold after my best friends admitted they almost freeze to death when they come for drinks or coffee at mine. I rarely put the heating on but when I do I can’t sleep because I feel like I’m suffocating. I’m in my 40s and assume it’s my age

Was it lots of extra weight or just a bit?

Not my only symptom, no. I also had dreadful fatigue and a fuzzy head and a few other random, mild issues.

I find that whenever my temperature is higher, all my old "symptoms" come back again. I think they are all linked somehow but my doctor doesn't agree.

If you're worried op go the doctors and tell them your symptoms, they will probably do a blood test and check your CRP, if it's high they'll delve deeper.

Yes, I thought I was past the menopause, as all the hot sweats had been gone for a few years, but now the slightest thing can set me off, and my granddaughter is always asking me to put the heating on. However, I am quite overweight, so I put it down to that. Currently on a weight loss journey, in the hope that the sweats and other things will improve.

I have always run hot. This has been for all my life. Most of my ex BF said I was like a heater in bed.
Saves me money though as I don't have the heating on often. House is 14 degree right now and I am pretty comfy.

Yep it was the peri menopause, then just when I got used to it the menopause hit now I'm the idiot walking around in a short sleeve t-shirt in zero degrees (I start off dressed like a sane person then hot flush hits and I'm in my own personal island in the sun)

YES!! People are always assuming it’s a hot flush….. it isn’t. I’m just naturally warmer than I used to be. I find it annoying as I’m generally too hot in shops and at work etc.

Yes!! After I had my first child 9 years ago I just started running hotter and it never went away. I went to my son's Christmas fayre at his school (indoors) and I was sweating in a t-shirt whilst others were in coats, hats and scarves 😂

I think I’m the opposite. I’m just cold all the time unless I’m moving around. Even in summer during the heatwaves I had to put a jumper on if I was just watching tv and not moving for an hour or so. I’m a normal weigh if that’s relevant. If anything on the slighty heavier side.

Yes. My inner thermostat broke during perimenopause. I'm out the other side now by a good few years and I still run hot.

Ever since having my daughter. I can't sleep I'm always a million degrees! Doubt (hope) it's perimenopause as I'm only 30, imagine just hormone shifts due to BF.

Yes! Not overweight and reasonably fit, but post meno (10 years ago) and autoimmune overactive thyroid, I sweat like a racehorse at the slightest exertion/in shops etc... Wear layers, and always whipping my cardi off.

After a shower, I use the hairdryer and am coated in sweat again. Had to give up on a fringe because it was just sticking to my forehead, and have separate bed to DH.

And these hotter summers can do one... 😡

Less sugar and alcohol helps.

Yes, I used to be a cold person but since hitting my 50s I'm hot all the time. Not hot flushes, just always hot and very hot feet at night. Can't remember the last time I wore a jumper! Hoping that after the menopause it will ease - I remember my mum being the same and she's gone back to being always cold again now but it took a long time.

That sounds different, though. I don't have flushes I'm just a warmer person.

I have always run quite warm but after menopause my thermostat got stuck and I’m much warmer. As I say to DH is it wasn’t for your skinny arse we would almost never need the heating on, you need more padding mate.

I actually did the opposite! I was a very hot person for all my adult life, it became quite a problem, for example at work everyone would want the heating up too high for me, I was in short sleeves but still uncomfortably hot. Then a couple of years ago i realised I was starting to feel cold a lot of the time in. Mid 60’s . I have read that stress and anxiety can make you feel colder, something to do with fight or flight. I have had a particularly difficult few years.

This is me! I’m 50 and am going through the menopause. I’ve never had hot flushes but definitely feel hotter than I used to. When I take my dog for a walk I have to strip off as soon as I get home down to a t-shirt and I have to have my feet sticking out of the duvet at night or I overheat.

Yes, it started a few years ago. I'm 51. I just run hotter and can't wear coats or wooly jumpers anymore. I don't have hot flushes, just feel hot most of the time.