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Struggling with the mask - over heating

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Paranoidmarvin · 10/08/2020 07:00

My inner core body temperature is way above what it was before all this peri crap started.
So I have suffered a bit more in the normal U.K. weather let alone in this heat. I have an active job and have been sweating buckets for the last week. More so than any other year.

I took my son shopping in An indoor shopping centre this weekend to get him bits and pieces he needed for college. I went to an indoor one as I thought that would be better heat wise especially for me.

It was awful. The mask just made me hotter than I was already. I just got hotter and hotter in each shop I went to. To the point where I was overheating and felt faint.

This is not a I don’t want to wear a mask thread. As I will do what is needed and I will wear my mask. But it made my entire head hotter than I was already. And just felt like I was going to faint.

I’m not at the hot flushes stage yet just a general hotness all the ruddy time.
Any one else peri and struggling with this.

Any tips or ideas that u have to help with this next time I go out. Take a portable fan with me ?

I’m not going to not wear a mask but I will not be going to any shops unless I really have to as this was just awful.

OP posts:
Paranoidmarvin · 11/08/2020 17:47

I have bought a hand held fan to take with me now. The first few reviews on it were from menopausal women. Grin

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RumAndRaisinIceCream · 11/08/2020 21:36

I have 3 and I'm pretty sure I reviewed them as a menopausal woman too GrinGrin

We need to stick together!!

Paranoidmarvin · 11/08/2020 21:56

@RumAndRaisinIceCream indeed. It is in my bag and there it will now stay. Can’t believe I didn’t think of it before to be honest

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BatleyTownswomensGuild · 20/08/2020 10:12

I'm exactly the same for the same reasons. Have come to the conclusion I'm just avoiding shops as much as possible. Hopefully it'll be easier when the weather cools in the Autumn.

SpecialchildSupermum · 20/08/2020 10:39

I am so hot all of the time so wearing a mask makes me overheat. It was getting beyond a joke and stopping me wanting to go anywhere. I bought a weird looking neck fan from amazon and it’s amazing. Looks a bit like headphones around your neck. I now use it indoors if I’m doing housework or cooking! The downside is my kids refuse to walk with me with it onWink

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