Menopause Matters Forum
Menopause Discussion => Personal Experiences => Topic started by: Scarlett on December 20, 2011, 03:59:45 PM
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I know that it is Winter and, just recently, we have had a cold spell, but I am sure I feel the cold more than what I did before entering peri-meno.
On a trip to the supermarket in the car one day, I almost felt in pain and that I couldn't stand the cold just from getting out of the car in the car park and walking the short distance to inside the supermarket.
In the house, even with the heating on, I am wearing 2 cardigans and a scarf.
Has anyone else experienced this?
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Hi Scarlett,
I seem to also feel the cold, especially my hands and feet they are like ice most of the time! I have always been a chilly mortal, but meno seems to make it worse. When Im really cold I can't Function and it makes me feel quite ill. I have invested in an electric heated fleece to wrap up in to watch tv in the evening, as sometimes my oh is quite warm and sat in a t shirt whilst I'm nearly shivering.
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Hi, yes I can suddenly go freezing cold even if others are boiling. You carnt win, hot cold , hot cold, and when you are cold, its as if you are chilled to the bone. 8)
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I am always cold, when everybody else is hot. Family gatherings are a nightmare as I want the heating on they all want the windows open. All my clothes have to be chosen with heat in mind. Mind you I take warfarin and that thins the blood so makes you cold. Dare I say I am looking forward just a little to flushes as it may be the first time in years that I am warm.
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Hi Scarlett,
I seem to also feel the cold, especially my hands and feet they are like ice most of the time! I have always been a chilly mortal, but meno seems to make it worse. When Im really cold I can't Function and it makes me feel quite ill. I have invested in an electric heated fleece to wrap up in to watch tv in the evening, as sometimes my oh is quite warm and sat in a t shirt whilst I'm nearly shivering.
Smokey - When you use the words 'can't function' - well that is just how I would describe it. You just don't feel right and you can't concentrate on things.
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Have you had your thyroid checked this is a classic symptom of underactive thyroid.
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Have you had your thyroid checked this is a classic symptom of underactive thyroid.
No I haven't had it checked. Just thought it was a combination of the cold weather and one of the numerous meno symptoms.
Would someone with an underactive thyroid feel cold even when the weather is quite warm?
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Definitely, I can vouch for that as I have hypothyroidism although it is well treated now.
I don't ever feel cold when the weather is quite warm - in fact, the opposite - I feel too warm.
So if you were not been treated and it was say a warm day in the Summer, would you actually feel cold?
What other symptoms do you have?
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Am not sure what u mean by this: -
"It sounds more as though you are over reacting to outside temperatures though. The body's temperature is controlled by the hypothalamus and that is affected by hormonal swings and surges"
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It's worth having it checked. It's a simple blood test. I felt cold but not that cold in the summer. I had memory problems and was often very tired - in bed by 9pm. Mine was picked up by a routine blood test. I had probably had it for years. Many women have this condition without really knowing it Ask the GP to check it. :)
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Hi ladies,
Scarlett I have had my thyroid checked a few months ago as I have had high calcium in the past and had to have part of my parathyroid removed, this is slightly different to the thyroid which is In The middle of your throat, but you can still get same symptoms,and being cold and very tired is two of them an concentration problems. Mine was discovered by chance by the hospital when I had unco-ordinated right arm and leg last year( it was MS but thankfully they are back to normal at the moment).
But I still get cold and concentration problems which are both also meno problems, I keep insisting on regular blood test every 3 months or so as I'm worried I might get problems again in the future relating to thyroid or parathyroid and I don't want to get it missed if it happens, usually surgery is required, but sometimes it can bee controlled by throxin(not sure if that's spelt right). You usually get hair loss too I think. But it's worth you getting it checked.
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Hi ladies,
Forgot to say,
Also you can loose loads of weight can't remember if that's over or under active thyroid but my Brother-in-law had this as a major symptom and had to have his thyroid removed.
again in the future relating to thyroid or parathyroid and I don't want to get it missed if it happens, usually surgery is required, but sometimes it can bee controlled by throxin(not sure if that's spelt right). You usually get hair loss too I think. But it's worth you getting it checked.
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Hi Scarlett,
I was diagnosed with hypothyroidism 7 years ago, at first my GP put all my symptoms of feeling cold and crashing fatigue down to the perimenopause and so it took a while before my thyroid was tested. I gained a lot of weight and just could not keep awake by the afternoon and was always freezing cold. I now take thyroxine but still live in layers of woolly pullies in the winter. I freeze all day and if I feel really chilled to the bone, then I go and defrost in a warm bath. However during the night the hot flushes take over and I boil, it's as if my body thermostat is stuck and cannot respond when required, so there is no happy medium anymore! It may be worth asking your GP for a Thyroid Function Test just to check. Hope this helps.
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We've been for a walk this morning to deliver the final cards, great in the clear air but I'm really really cold now so put the boiler on - however, the thermostat has been swtiched down so the house isn't warming up ::)
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Turn the thermostat up CKLD! Lol
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Did eventually once I realised ::)
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I always feel cold, husband is always telling me to turn the heating off, my hands are the worse
I have a normal thyroid but have all the symptoms :-\
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I had the electric blanket on in the early hours :-\ - I was finding it hard to sleep as I was on the edge of being chilly so turned it on. Slept eventually ::) - it's August for goodness sake :-\
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Too warm up here for electric blanket! Never thought I'd say that after the weather we've had of late.
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I'd always assumed that peri/menopause meant hot flushes, so when I developed cold flushes - which can last anything from a minute to 48 hours - I was convinced I had an under active thyroid. In fact, I badgered my GP to test me on more than one occasion to be sure. Now, further down the line, I realise it is just another - though less popular - symptom of the lead up to menopause. I usually get nausea if I have a longer cold flush, often with fatigue and just a weird uneasy feeling.
They can strike at the weirdest of times - had a momentary one yesterday whilst out walking in 25 degree sunshine - I'd been sweating a few minutes before!
These posts helped me:
http://patient.info/forums/discuss/perimenopause-severe-coldness-anyone-259454
http://menopause-aid.blogspot.co.uk/2011/03/cold-flashes-chills-during-menopause.html
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Wow, thanks Briony - I had no idea of that one. Usually too damn hot of late, but I know in the past I have been the only one cold and not been able to get warm, so worth knowing.
CLKD - no need for any heat here just now, I have enough for everyone ;)
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I'll put my feet on your back then ::)
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I've put our heating on :o - feet are cold, don't know if the rest of me is or whether it's watching the hard drizzle which makes the sky grey.
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Mine is on too CLKD. I'm frozen today.
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I have my fleece jacket on indoors. :)
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I didn't know that either, Briony, as I feel the cold more too - in the pub on Friday, I was sitting there in my jacket whilst everyone else was in t-shirts. Really cold this afternoon too (in a jumper & sweat jacket) - my hands were like ice. My mum has an underactive thyroid & is on Thyroxine. My sister, who is ten years younger than me, was 'borderline' underactive last year. Both my mum & sister struggle with their weight & my mum said her diagnosis came after she couldn't lose weight & felt the cold. Every test I have had, has come back as 'normal' (last one was done Nov 2014 along with hormones which were 'normal' - I think not!). Getting it done again along with the hormones when my period starts. Have had heavier hair loss over the last year-and-a-half (no bald patches - just heavier loss all over). Also have overwhelming tiredness of late - everything seems to be more of an effort! X
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Scarlett
There is a test you can do at home which may help , take your temperature immediately on waking for 10 days and if its well below average chances are you have a thyroid problem, mine ws consistently around 33.7 and now its 36 . What a difference the thyroxine makes, aches and pain s etc disappear. I was borderline, it also stopped my palpitations, :)
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Before I started HRT I would get phases of feeling intensely cold. So bad I almost felt sick with it and wanted to cry. It was an accurate predictor of an impending dip in my hormones and several days of feeling very depressed and anxious.
It still happened once I was on HRT.
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Even though I put this into the search button I had to search deeper!
I have put the electric blanket on for a few nights ........ and the heating on last night to have a warm bathroom: was *that* our Summer :-\
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I was enjoying that heat. I am back in my sheepskin slippers that go up to my ankles. ;D
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Socks back on ;)
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Most certainly.
I get chillblanes in the winter. I don't want them in summer >:( I also have dry flakey legs, and have often wondered about thyroid problems as there is a family history. However, the test results always come back bang in the middle of the ranges. One of my daughters is the same.
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Maybe it's just old age, but OMG I'm freezing. Trying hard not to put heating on. Sat here with a fleece jumper on as is hubby. Crochet blanket anyone? ;D
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Toes are still cold ::). Flaky skin needs a good moisturiser and the action may well warm you up a bit ;-)
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We put the oil burner on last evening and again mid-morning as we were watching MotoGP then other TV programmes.
Nice to hear the radiators clunking ;-) - the wood burner makes the room too hot yet.