Re: Slightly OT/ Cold Hands and feet

[Guest guest]

I would suggest a CBC to rule out anemia and Serum Chemistries with a thyroid

panel. If first waking temp is >97.6 3 out of 4 days I consider it evidence of

slow metabolism and hypothyroidism, which should be treated. Dr. JM

Slightly OT/ Cold Hands and feet

From reading one of the other posts about cold hand and feet, I have a

question. If anyone can answer this, I would appreciate it.

I am a 37 female, healthy for the most part. But I am always FREEZING! When I

get in bed at night, I wear gloves while I am reading my book. I wear socks to

bead because my hands are always cold. But it is not just my hands and feet, I

am cold all over.

I was complaining to my husband last night that I was very tired of always

being so cold. He said he did not think it was normal to be so cold all the

time. I have always been cold, but lately it seems worse.

So, I decided to take my temp this morning (some days I am more cold than

others).

My oral temp was 96.7.

Does anyone know if this is normal or not. I have been doing a little

searching on the net, but have not dug into it yet. Just curious if there is an

answer for this, hormones?

[Guest guest]

> From reading one of the other posts about cold hand and feet, I

have a question. If anyone can answer this, I would appreciate it.

> I am a 37 female, healthy for the most part. But I am always

FREEZING! When I get in bed at night, I wear gloves while I am

reading my book. I wear socks to bead because my hands are always

cold. But it is not just my hands and feet, I am cold all over.

> I was complaining to my husband last night that I was very tired of

always being so cold. He said he did not think it was normal to be so

cold all the time. I have always been cold, but lately it seems worse.

> So, I decided to take my temp this morning (some days I am more

cold than others).

> My oral temp was 96.7.

> Does anyone know if this is normal or not. I have been doing a

little searching on the net, but have not dug into it yet. Just

curious if there is an answer for this, hormones?

Thyroid? Anemia?

>

>

[Guest guest]

Well, I have been surfing the net, and that is what I seem to come up with,

Thyroid.

I am tired a lot, but just figured that comes with the territory.

I guess I should ask my doc about it.

Thanks for the input.

jennifer

Re: Slightly OT/ Cold Hands and feet

> From reading one of the other posts about cold hand and feet, I

have a question. If anyone can answer this, I would appreciate it.

> I am a 37 female, healthy for the most part. But I am always

FREEZING! When I get in bed at night, I wear gloves while I am

reading my book. I wear socks to bead because my hands are always

cold. But it is not just my hands and feet, I am cold all over.

> I was complaining to my husband last night that I was very tired of

always being so cold. He said he did not think it was normal to be so

cold all the time. I have always been cold, but lately it seems worse.

> So, I decided to take my temp this morning (some days I am more

cold than others).

> My oral temp was 96.7.

> Does anyone know if this is normal or not. I have been doing a

little searching on the net, but have not dug into it yet. Just

curious if there is an answer for this, hormones?

Thyroid? Anemia?

>

>

[Guest guest]

>

> > I am a 37 female, healthy for the most part. But I am always

> FREEZING!

SNIP

> Just

> curious if there is an answer for this, hormones?

I've recently been reading a couple of books by the titles of, " What

Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Menopause " and " What Your Doctor

May Not Tell You About Premenopause. " The author, Dr. Lee,

says that often times when we are lacking in progesterone...or very

high in estrogen (called estrogen dominance) which is not fully

balanced by enough progesterone, it can give us some of the the same

symptoms as hypothroidism, and/or other symptoms. He says that he's

noticed a lot more women, in his medical practice, taking thyroid

supplements, than men.

He says,

" Estrogen may compete with thyroid hormone at the site of its

receptor. In so doing, the thyroid hormone may never complete its

mission, creating the hypothyroid symptoms despite normal serum

levels of thyroid hormone. Progesterone, on the other hand,

increases the sensitivity of estrogen receptors for estrogen and

yet, at the proper level, inhibits many of estrogen's side

effects. ....<snip>.... It is clear to me that symptoms of

hypothryoidism occuring in patients with unopposed estrogen

(progesterone deficient) become less so when progesterone is added

and hormone balance is attained. " page 147 and 148 of the book

cited above on Menopause.

What Dr. Lee adocates is NOT synthetic progesterone, which he says

carries lots of side effects, but natural progesterone cream.

I have the same hypothryoidish type symptoms, by the way. I'm VERY

cold, and keep turning the heat up to 74, or (once even to 75!)

degrees in our house, and my husband keeps turning it down. I'm

very tired (of course, I was anemic not so long ago, which didn't

help matters any!), and I'm gaining weight even though I eat

healthy. My doctor ran a thryoid check on me twice, and both times

said my levels were high enough that I didn't need thryoid

supplements (I remembered what Dr. McCandless said about thryoid

levels which are on the low side of " normal " and how often times

those patients do in fact benefit from natural thryoid supplements,

such as armour, but I need a dr. rx for that, and I don't have one.

Instead, my doctor put me on iron, which has helped a little with

the tiredness, but has done nothing for the COLDness!) Anyway,

since I have a few of the other symptoms of estrogen dominance, I'm

considering trying this natural progesterone cream.

Dr. Lee says that unless the patient is already in menopause, in

most cases she should take it just during the last half of her

monthly cycle. He recommends days 12 to 26...but I'm wondering if

days 14 to 27 wouldn't be better. I don't know though! Just

wondering!

Dr. Mercola has an article about natural progesterone cream too,

which he has used in his practice for a while now. His main concern

seems to be that some people over-do it, and end up using too much

cream, thus creating TOO high levels of progesterone. I was going

to include the link to his article, but can't seem to find it in my

computer at the moment, and I have to get offline. I'll look for it

this afternoon and forward it on to the list.

Oh, by the way...I don't know whether this natural progesterone

cream is safe or not. I'm not saying that to scare anyone! I'm

just saying it because the whole idea of supplementing hormones

scares ME a bit...BUT, I do think that I'm estrogen dominant, and

have several of the symptoms, so I think I'm going to give it a

short try and see if it helps relieve any of my symptoms.

Janiece

[Guest guest]

Thank you Dr. McCandless. I appreciate your reply. I will be making an

appointment with my doc. today.

Slightly OT/ Cold Hands and feet

From reading one of the other posts about cold hand and feet, I have a

question. If anyone can answer this, I would appreciate it.

I am a 37 female, healthy for the most part. But I am always FREEZING! When

I get in bed at night, I wear gloves while I am reading my book. I wear socks to

bead because my hands are always cold. But it is not just my hands and feet, I

am cold all over.

I was complaining to my husband last night that I was very tired of always

being so cold. He said he did not think it was normal to be so cold all the

time. I have always been cold, but lately it seems worse.

So, I decided to take my temp this morning (some days I am more cold than

others).

My oral temp was 96.7.

Does anyone know if this is normal or not. I have been doing a little

searching on the net, but have not dug into it yet. Just curious if there is an

answer for this, hormones?