Re: hypo & heatintolerance?/adrenals

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In a message dated 11/18/2004 4:01:10 AM Eastern Standard Time,

artisticgroom@... writes:

> You have no

> idea how many times I have thought about my own heat intolerance

> while I was severely hypo

I've always been a bit heat intolerant before being diagnosed. And my mom

(undiagnosed Hashi's) was very heat intolerant. I was always cold at her house

because she kept the AC going. When she went out in the heat, sweat would

just pour from her face. It was a real problem for her.

Cindi

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In a message dated 11/18/2004 5:44:32 AM Eastern Standard Time,

wolfiebear@... writes:

> Or the thyroid/body does not know how to tell the

> brain/nervous system to cool down? I thought the pituitary controlled temps.

> (not sure)

>

i think we can just sum it up by saying that with hypo - our " thermostats "

are broken...and our bodies cannot regulate our body temps properly.

Cindi

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> >>I'm curious: Is there anybody else who is hypo, and yet loves

cold and

> thrives in it ?<<

>

> ME ME ME!!!! I live for cold weather! Right now it is 50 outside

and I have the front door open and the BR air on... LOL

>

This is VERY interesting to me. For years I've read articles in

magazines etc that seemed to describe me a hypothyroid (low normal

body temp, tired, hard to lose weight,etc), but they always said cold

intolerant. I have ALWAYS been sooo the opposite! I felt overheated

very easily. (It seems to be changing lately with menopause nigh).

I'm very frustrated though, because I cannot get my doc to run

complete blood tests. In Ireland, the lab decides if TSH is " normal "

then they will NOT do Free T3 whether doc specifically orders it or

not! I have found alternative doc's name (on this site... I think?),

and will try to get appt with him and try to find out WHAT is up with

me for all these years?!

So my regular doc just says all my blood work is normal and have I

tried exercising.....

Thank you, all of you, who have commented on this heat intolerance

subject. I was beginning to think I'm just a hypochondriac and that

low body temp isn't indicative of anything.

It makes sense for ppl with low body temp to be heat intolerant to

me. When you have a fever, you feel chilled. So stands to reason if

your temp is low, you'd feel hot.

When we have a fever, the diff between room temp and our body's temp

is greater, so we feel cold.

If our body temp is lower, then we are closer to room temp, so we

feel warmer. Does that make sense? Does to me. It never made sense

to me that someone with lower body temp would feel cold in 72ºF!

Lately my hands and feet do suffer however. But I think that might

be menopause (peri-meno..)

Wish me luck with the new doc. Gonna be expensive.....

Cheers,

Vicki

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Vickie here is all the luck wishes I can gather for you! You have no

idea how many times I have thought about my own heat intolerance

while I was severely hypo, and it DOES make sense to me that with a

lower (much lower) body temp the air feels warmer. I have been heat

intolerant since my early teens when I would go to the beach with my

friends I got heat stroke more times than not and had to stay out of

the sun entirely. I evenhad to take salt tablets then! I would sweat

at the drop of a hat, then when I overheated, I would stop sweating.

I have even wondered if alot of my problems have been just plain low

sodium as I have tested low for it a coule times, and adding sea salt

to my food and taking lots of sea salt baths I do feel much better.

T

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My body wil actually get the shivvers sometimes when I am hot..complete with

a little bit of goose bumps. I just call it heat shivvers. I always figured

it was a way that my body wa desperatly trying to convince itself it was not

so hot or something...

~inga

>>>>>>>It makes sense for ppl with low body temp to be heat intolerant to

me. When you have a fever, you feel chilled. So stands to reason if

your temp is low, you'd feel hot.

When we have a fever, the diff between room temp and our body's temp

is greater, so we feel cold.

If our body temp is lower, then we are closer to room temp, so we

feel warmer. Does that make sense? Does to me. It never made sense

to me that someone with lower body temp would feel cold in 72ºF!<<<<<<<

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Wow, you too? I completely blacked out at the beach several times when I

was in my early teens. I finally pretty much quit going.

I had a convertible for years, and would drive around in a baseball cap with

a bag of ice tucked under it....

I think I have gotten heat stroke many, many times since my teens - 15

minutes in the sun when it is 80 degrees, and I can be very ill for half a

day or more.

What the heck is ACTUALLY causing this? An inability to perspire and a lack

of electrolytes? Or the thyroid/body does not know how to tell the

brain/nervous system to cool down? I thought the pituitary controlled temps.

(not sure)

I am glad I am not alone. It has mystified me for so long, and people simply

don't understand it, in fact they have gotten down right angry at me, and

myself right back, becasue sometimes I am simply trying to survive.

Being mercury toxic (which I am) also causes heat intolerance, I recently

got confirmed.

I sure hope this all clears up with more thyroid. I have been on 2 grains

for over three years now, but am doing about 3 1/2 now.

I am going to try some cortef to see if it helps.

Just blabbing and commiserating about something that has absolutely RUN my

life for years,

Inga

on 11/18/04 12:59 AM, at artisticgroom@... wrote:

Vickie here is all the luck wishes I can gather for you! You have no

idea how many times I have thought about my own heat intolerance

while I was severely hypo, and it DOES make sense to me that with a

lower (much lower) body temp the air feels warmer. I have been heat

intolerant since my early teens when I would go to the beach with my

friends I got heat stroke more times than not and had to stay out of

the sun entirely. I evenhad to take salt tablets then! I would sweat

at the drop of a hat, then when I overheated, I would stop sweating.

I have even wondered if alot of my problems have been just plain low

sodium as I have tested low for it a coule times, and adding sea salt

to my food and taking lots of sea salt baths I do feel much better.

T

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yes, I've been saying that I need a new thermostat for about the last 10 years!

Lynda (in the UK)

Re: Re: hypo & heatintolerance?/adrenals

i think we can just sum it up by saying that with hypo - our " thermostats "

are broken...and our bodies cannot regulate our body temps properly.

Cindi

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Hi Inga,

The " no email " hasn't started working yet so I'm still getting emails &

reading them, feeling better this morning.

I always loved the hot sunshine & heat as a child & into my adult years &

thrived in it, being a sun worshipper & getting brown as a berry all my life. It

always made me feel so good & healthy.

Then as menopause started in earnest after my hysterectomy at age 45, my skin

pigmentation started to change when out in the sun & I got blotchy instead of an

even tan. So gradually I stopping the Spring-Summer-Fall sunbathing at the beach

or in my backyard(s).

I think that's when I started getting less vitamin D & my bones started going

more porous too & I began having more aches/pains in my spine. At least that's

what I thought from what I was reading about it & noticing at the time.

Now I live in an extremely hot, dry summer climate that's way hotter than what

I'm used to all my life. And I just hate it. I burned out two air conditioners

in my (now dead) car since living here as I had to keep the AC on super high

constantly which I never had to do back where I used to live in a cooler

year-round cliamte.

I can't stay outside in the summer here at all in this 3-digit daily heat. It

just wastes me. I'm mostly inside with the AC on trying to stay cool. In the

winter here too I was getting way worse bone-aching pain from the colder

weather. And noticed it got worse at night in the summer too when the night

temp. dropped way down. So it's the weather extremes here in this new area the

past 3 years that have made me lots worse pain-wise.

Also the chemical out-gassing in my new home & the Freeon chemicals in the air

conditioning made me way sicker & sent my body & immune system way out of kilter

moreso. I've gotten way more severe hot flashes/sweats day & night than ever

before. I never used to sweat much either, even in hotter weather. But this year

I've been sweating with the hot flashes like a swamp cooler & just hate those.

Also read where having to use AC part of the year so much & then heat for the

other part, the body's natural temperature control goes out of sync relying on

the artificial heat/cold temps inside houses/buildings/cars. So that throws a

lot of other body processes off too as it isn't self-regulating according to

more " normal " , gradual seasonal weather changes as it should.

On the Armour thyroid now tho for two weeks, I'm noticing my hands & feet, &

then the rest of my body along with it, are warmer now in the colder winter

weather, even in the house. So I've got the heat on way lower or off altogether

in here for the first time since I've lived here tho it's been foggy, cold or

windy/rainy lots of days here for about two months now.

And my bones aren't aching as badly as they used to which used to necessitate

my taking hot bath soaking to warm up the bones twice a day as I did the past

two winters usually starting in late October. So something's working here to

normalize my body temps...not just the Armour either. But other things I'm

taking too.

Caroline

Re: Re: hypo & heatintolerance?/adrenals

Wow, you too? I completely blacked out at the beach several times when I

was in my early teens. I finally pretty much quit going.

I had a convertible for years, and would drive around in a baseball cap with

a bag of ice tucked under it....

I think I have gotten heat stroke many, many times since my teens - 15

minutes in the sun when it is 80 degrees, and I can be very ill for half a

day or more.

What the heck is ACTUALLY causing this? An inability to perspire and a lack

of electrolytes? Or the thyroid/body does not know how to tell the

brain/nervous system to cool down? I thought the pituitary controlled temps.

(not sure)

I am glad I am not alone. It has mystified me for so long, and people simply

don't understand it, in fact they have gotten down right angry at me, and

myself right back, becasue sometimes I am simply trying to survive.

Being mercury toxic (which I am) also causes heat intolerance, I recently

got confirmed.

I sure hope this all clears up with more thyroid. I have been on 2 grains

for over three years now, but am doing about 3 1/2 now.

I am going to try some cortef to see if it helps.

Just blabbing and commiserating about something that has absolutely RUN my

life for years,

Inga

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Hello Inga,

May I ask what you are taking to detoxify your body? from the

mercury poisoning?

Gossimer

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> Being mercury toxic (which I am) also causes heat intolerance, I

recently

> got confirmed.

> I sure hope this all clears up with more thyroid. I have been on 2

grains

> for over three years now, but am doing about 3 1/2 now.

> I am going to try some cortef to see if it helps.

>

> Just blabbing and commiserating about something that has

absolutely RUN my

> life for years,

> Inga