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[Hedz]

Hi unsure if this is the correct place to post but I just wanted to ask if anyone else is always cold? Especialy in their hands?

The only way I can describe how it feels is like being cold from the inside out. Its a gnawing cold and I am not looking foward to the coldest months of winter if I feel this way now. I'm that cold sometimes it makes me want to cry


Thanks

🙂

 

[Caroline]

I feel the cold a lot. I find fingerless gloves help when I am at work as do lots of thin layers of clothes and plenty of warm drinks. I even have a pair of ear warmers as I get ear ache if my ears get cold and have been known to walk round attached to a hot water bottle all day too...

 

[AlisonM]

I have two sets of fingerless gloves with flip top mitten bits that I knitted for my self last year. They do the job for me really well and the fingerless bit means I can keep my left hand warm and not have the walking stick slip out of my grasp. I also have leggings to wear under my jeans, a Mobius scarf to keep my neck and throat warm and furry boottees for my feet. OH gave me a lovely cuddly faux-furry throw-thing and some silly, stripey, over the knee socks for my birthday, to use when I'm at home. I'm all set for the winter now.

As Caroline suggested, plenty of layers and warm drinks should help. You could try carrying a hand warmer. I did a Google and there are heaps of options out there.

 

[slipper]

My hot water bottle and I are inseparable. I have been known to go out with one on my mobility scooter, forget, and walk into the Drs with it still tucked in my trousers.😱

 

[Hedz]

Thanks for the replies so far. Has anyone invented a tshirt vest that has those hand warmers sewn in? Or a microwavable body warmer? lol 😉

 

[HOBIE]

I started on asprin a few years ago and get cold very easy. Work outside a lot & not looing forward to winter ! I used to spend 3 days a week in north sea for fun ! 🙂 (Young & daft)

 

[Northerner]

Hi Hedz, welcome to the forum 🙂 How long have you been diagnosed? For the first year after I was diagnosed I could not get warm no matter what I did - and I was diagnosed in early summer, so despite the sunshine I shivered. I even got chilblains by the time winter came around, and hadn't had them since childhood!

However, I am now much better - haven't needed the heating on yet, although I do swear by my electric blanket so I have a nice warm bed to get into. Have you been checked for thyroid disorders? I believe that an underactive thyroid can make you feel the cold more.

 

[Natalie123]

lol, I imagine someone has! I love my microwavable hedgehog. Personally my body temperature is always a bit off. I get really hot in the morning, even in the winter but in the evening I can put the heating right up (my boyfriend will be boiling), wrap up in many layers and just can't warm myself up on the inside! My skin feels warm but inside I am aching with cold. Hot cups of tea help, or try drinking hot water if you don't like tea or coffee. Warm food like soup helps me too.

Have you mentioned this to your doctor? Being cold could indicate poor circulation, low blood pressure or under active tyroid - I was checked for these when I mentioned it to the doctor. Or have you lost a lot of weight recently? That would also explain why you are feeling the cold.

 

[Pumper_Sue]

Thanks for the replies so far. Has anyone invented a tshirt vest that has those hand warmers sewn in? Or a microwavable body warmer? lol 😉

As others have said have some bloods done as could be an under active thyroid.
You can get heated body warmers They are warmed by a small battery.

 

[trophywench]

Oh yes Sue, you can! - a biker friend had one, his actually plugged into the bike battery - and in the winter he had a high old time at meet-ups, wrapping himself round frozen pillion passengers! Fab when you'd just ridden halfway up the M6 in the early hours of a cold 'n' frosty!

 

[Copepod]

Hedz - if it's your fingers (and toes) that get particularly cold, then it's worth talking to your GP, in case it's a circulation problem. Feeling cold can alos be associated with other medical conditions, such as an over or under active thyroid gland.

Very thin silk gloves can be good, as well as fingerless gloves.

Camping shops and chemists sell lots of heat packs / hand warmers, some for one time only use, others for reuse by heating in microwave etc.

 

[Hedz]

Hi

Must get myself one of those body warmers! I also recal recently seeing a scarf with hand pockets at the end so could slip a few in there when I go out.

I have been slowly losing weight via WW (NHS referal) but I have felt the cold from the inside out for a lot longer. I keep asking the Dr for a blood test for Thyroid as I have several symptoms for some time now that may indicate an issue with mine but they tell me its ok. I know there is another 'deep thyroid' test which is more accurate but they dont seem to be interested. I will go see my GP again though and am due my 6 month reveiw with the Diabetes nurse so will chat to her about it as well.

Thanks for the advice everyone so far! Keep warm 🙂