Hello everyone
Just wondering, does anyone else suffer from being constantly cold? This has been going on since the summer 2012, I only seem to heat up if i sit in front of a blazing fire.
i’m confused, as the post i’ve read are all the opposite, re overheating!
Any ideas or am i turning to ice?? 
thanks
martina
Hi Martina, I’m usually a furnace but the last few weeks I’m constantly cold and often have to take a shower and go to bed just to stay warm. For me it’s more about being tired. If I’m tired I’m cold. And these days I’m usually tired.
I’ve never found that being hot or over heating has made my symptoms worse at all. Luckily enough as I love my hot baths and showers!
I often have a problem with being cold and regularly sit wrapped up in rugs (sometimes with my legs stuck out because they’re burning mind you!).
Have you told your GP? Temperature control can point to certain conditions (e.g. thyroid).
Karen x
Hello Martina,my feet are always painful and cold.I can’t walk and this adds towards poor blood flow.It hurts even more to wear socks,so I don’t.When I’m in my flat,which is 22 hours a day at the moment I use a hairdryer to warm them up a bit.It does help.I used to be an Eskimo,but not anymore so the flat is kept at about 24 degrees C.
KIATIAT, (keep it all tucked in and toastie)
Wb
Hi,I also have a real problem trying to get and keep warm.
I have no mobility, so that doesn``t help.
i recently had a dopplar test to check my feet were getting enough blood circulating round them.
The test was re-done and the results were good for both tests.
District nurse got me some support stockings (they just come up to my knees ie no sexy suspenders involved). they do help in some way to warm my legs a bit.
I am wrapped in several layers (wool sox, support stockings, thermal long johns, leggings, thermal vest, top, cardigan and fleece wrap and fleecy lined bootee slippers), yet I STILL feel chilly. The only thing that helps in a bigger way, is my hot water bottle. It has its own fleece cosy, so it doesnt burn me. This is all INDOORS.
When I go out, I add a wool capem fur hat, scarf and gloves and fur lined boots. When I get home, my legs and feet like solid ice.
I am looking at a cositoes thingy like i used to put my babies in!
I just dont know what else to do!
luv Polllx
thanks everyone for your advice & help…had a hot bath last night after tea which heat me up…I will mention in in my next appointment. Even back at slimming world to see if taking a few stone off would make a difference to my circulation ??
thanks again :)x
thanks everyone for your advice & help…had a hot bath last night after tea which heat me up…I will mention in in my next appointment. Even back at slimming world to see if taking a few stone off would make a difference to my circulation ??
thanks again :)x
From the people I have met with MS people really feel the cold or are always warm, nothing inbetween. I have always felt the cool and it has been getting worse the last few years, as a middle aged woman I was hoping for hot sweats, but get cold ones. I have been told that I have Raynards, but also have numbness and pins and needles, loss of sensation etc. Feeling the cold or always being warm is an autoimmune problem, which is why lots of people with MS suffer with it. You can do things to treat the symptoms but not get rid of the problem, or so I have been told. I spend a lot of time in bed with my electric blanket on!
I feel really cold most of the time too. I have a heated throw for when I’m in the house and when I’m out, I have to really layer up. When I go to the football, I wear 4 layers on top including thermals and a thick fleece with a 3 in 1 jacket and a scarf, thermals under my thermal trousers and 2 pairs of heat holder socks in fleece lined boots and I’m still shivering by half time!
Fizzy x
Hello I am actually from Australia and going through our summer here at the moment? I am newly diagnosed and all my Ms nurses and Doctors told me to be particulary careful in the heat as it can affect me quite bad! I am finding I am coping well in the heat a little tired some days but that is always anyway?? My husbad turns the ducted air conditiner on and within an hour I am sitting on a leather couch with a dressing gown and slippers on feeling very cold and uncomfortable! It was still 40c degrees outside and the aircon set on 21c? It feels painful in my legs to me, so I am not looking forward to winter opposed to summer?
Crazy what a little nick in Myelin can do to your whole body!
Shann_36 x
Hello I am actually from Australia and going through our summer here at the moment? I am newly diagnosed and all my Ms nurses and Doctors told me to be particulary careful in the heat as it can affect me quite bad! I am finding I am coping well in the heat a little tired some days but that is always anyway?? My husbad turns the ducted air conditiner on and within an hour I am sitting on a leather couch with a dressing gown and slippers on feeling very cold and uncomfortable! It was still 40c degrees outside and the aircon set on 21c? It feels painful in my legs to me, so I am not looking forward to winter opposed to summer?
Crazy what a little nick in Myelin can do to your whole body!
Shann_36 x