Always cold!

[prawncrackered]

And miserable with it. Doesn't seem to matter how many layers I wear or how many pairs of socks, I still feel cold.

I know it's been a cold winter but I've never felt it this bad before. I'm nearly 40 and for the first time ever I've got chillblains on my toes and they're so sore and itchy!

Have thought it might be thyroid but I'm not overweight., bang in middle of bmi. Does anybody else suffer like this? Is it just one of the many pleasures of getting older!

Well it could be the thyroid and you might not necessarily have put on weight. I was severely underactive and was normal weight. Do you have any other thyroid symptoms : dry skin, thinnning hair, tiredness, lack of libido etc etc?

I would ask GP for a blood test anyway as its not normal to feel cold ALL the time.

Good luck

Blood tests should be carried out to see if there is a problem with the thyroid gland. It is not normal to feel cold all the time.

It has been a very mild winter this year. I agree that you need to rule out an under active thyroid.

i have an underactive thyroid and weigh 8 stone at 5 foot 5 so you dont have to be overweight - and i am ALWAYS cold!

Thanks for the replies.

I'm currently sitting here with the heating on 26 degrees, 4 pairs of socks and an eiderdown jacket on!

I've had lots of strange symptoms over the last 6 months, but, again put it down to my age and the fact that I have a very physically active job.

Excessive tiredness, asleep by 9.30 most nights and napping in the day at the weekends. I think the tiredness is effecting my mood too, I'm either anxious and feeling like I can't cope with anything or so tired that everything feels too much effort and I get weepy and fractious at the thought of the jobs I've got to do. (But again, I'm a single parent, no car, so cycling and cleaning 5 hours a day for work plus studying, so put it all down to this.)

Very dry skin and hair, currently going through aqueous cream like its going out of fashion but skin still feels tight and dry after it's absorbed. My hair has snapped off to the extent that I'm now sporting a fringe having lost a good 4 inches from it and again costing me a fortune in so called miracle repair hair products, in an attempt to get some moisture in it.

I've been suffering with bad palpitations at night and at times breathlessness just climbing the stairs, but spoke with the pharmacist who advised ferrous sulphate and these seemed to have stopped them.

But what I've noticed the most, after years of having what I'd class as excessive perspiration, I seem to have stopped sweating! Great in the fact that I no longer have to worry about smelling but strange none the less!

Think it's time to visit the doctors and request some blood tests. It is all very possibly my age and lifestyle but would be good to rule out thyroid and anything else.

Thanks again for the input.

Don't forget to mention everything you have just written down. It sounds very much like an underactive thyroid.

that sounds exactly like thyroid to be honest - I had all that and more
make sure you ask for copies of your blood tests and post back once you have them
you are more than likely deficient in other things as well if it is thyroid, as it stops your body working properly. ask for b12, ferritin, vit d as a minimum alongside tsh and t4 for thyroid

I would bet my right boob that you are underactive thyroid! You sound like me before I was diagnosed. Make sure to make a list of symptoms to the GPs's and DO NOT BE FOBBED OFF - get a blood test asap.

I had let myself get soooo ill that the hospital actually called me at work 2 hours after my blood test and instructed me to go straight to GPS and pick up the prescription they had advised him to start me on. The usual way of starting thyroxine is to start on 25mcg and work up slowly over a couple of months to 150mcg. I was on 100mcg within a week! I still kick myself for letting myself get so ill.

A month after stating the thyroxine, I went on holiday and while there most of my old, broken, snapping off hair fell out (overnight, on the pillow!). It grew back twice the thickness and I had to start shaving my legs every day and got my hair cut every 3 weeks for ages. I also sweated like a pig for weeks until things settled down to normality!