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Re: Hot flashes.....sweating for no apparant reason,adversion to heat...
From: Kimberly (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Thu, 7 Feb 2002 00:12:23 -0600 (CST)
Barbra, I don't mean to bring this up again, but did you do some
in-depth research on the thyroid issue? It seem this could be the only
rational explaniation for such feelings of converse hot and cold. It
would seem exhaustive to be looking for an explaination in so many
places before you investigate the most obvious one.
At Wed, 6 Feb 2002, Barbra wrote:
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>At Wed, 06 Feb 2002, Renee wrote:
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>>Barbara,
>>
>>I understand how you feel. For me, it was completely carb related. When I ate
>>carbs, I got really hot, radiating like you said. Now that I have severely
>>limited my carbs, I only get it when I miss a snack, or in the morning before
>>I get up (if I haven't been tightly controlled in the recent days).
>>
>>Renee
>>
>Renee,
>Maybe it can be carb related to me as well.
>I just took the opportunity to read thru some of your posts that I had
>missed about the hot spells.
>In one post,you speak of that ,if you are warm enough to cuddle in the
>morning that you are well controlled.Are you saying that you will awake
>warm if your diet isn't well controlled?
>I find that too,but didn't really think that the carbs could make me so
>hot upon waking.
>Yesterday,I basically ate total protein...carbs were only some
>strawberries and broccoli,cauliflower,lots of celery.
>
>I ate a piece of cheese before retiring,and I awoke chilly,which was
>always the way I used to awake.It could be that I am cheating,as I tend
>to shake for something sweet in the evenings after doing yoga.I actually
>shake for a fix of sugar...a piece of chocolate or a
>cookie...sometimes,I am really bad and eat more than I wish to tell.I
>find this strange,as after yoga,my body is relaxed and normal
>temperature..no sweating with the yoga and I do it for an hour
>faithfully every night before going to bed,and I really get hungary for
>something sweet.I have the carb...feel better,but awake hot.The complete
>opposite happened upon waking today...I am cold...at least I can be
>cuddly.
>So,off to take a shower and see how well I can manage not perspiring
>after I am finished,so that at least I can feel that I don't need
>another one.
>
>I have to ask a silly question here,that I may be wrong about the way
>that I post what I THINK may be true,but would appreciate your advice on
>the subject.
>
>Isn't it true that body temperatures do fluctuate even with normal
>people?
>To my knowledge,(please correct me if I am wrong),you awake with a lower
>body temperature(means you should be cool upon waking),and usually the
>body temp peaks after being awake for 10 hours and then should go down
>again before going to sleep?
>
>When being a so called "Normal" person,that was the way it was for me.
>I was always chilled upon waking...felt good,as I could snuggle into a
>cozy robe and have warm cup of coffee or tea,then shower and feel
>great....body temp would be normal all day...of course doing alot of
>walking as I did with my former position as a general manager for a
>jewellery chain store;and always on the move,I was a normal warm.Then
>just before it would be my bed time,I would again feel chilled and
>snuggle under the covers and drift into a normal,uninterrupted sleep.
>
>The radiating heat is really unbelievable,as my husband says I feel like
>a hot element on our stove,radiating heat....jokingly saying that I can
>heat the kettle myself....haha to him!
>
>Also,if you don't mind me asking your advice on the kelp.
>What is you opinion on me taking kelp in my multi vitamin/mineral
>complex?It is only ten mg.
>Thanks again for always responding.
>Barbra
>
>>Barbra Camara wrote:
>>> <snip>
>>> I just want to know how many suffer hot flashes,sweating and adversion
>>> to warmth..and then go completely opposite for a week or so and be icy
>>> cold?
>>> I am talking that you can actually feel the heat radiating from my
>>> body...I can be my husband's electric heating blanket!And to think that
>>> just ten years ago we had a water bed that I loved,as it was so warm and
>>> cuddly.Ahh...miss being able to like being warm and cozy.
>>> No matter what,I cannot seem to regulate my body thermostat and that is
>>> certainly taking the toll on my heating bills,not to mention that my
>>> husband already doesn't know what the heck is going on with the temps in
>>> the house,as I keep fiddling with the thermostat all day long and asking
>>> him:"are you hot"?
>><snip>
>>
>>--
>>Renee Cordrey, MSPT, MPH, CWS
>>
>>---
>>
>>Don't follow in the footsteps of the masters. Seek what they sought.
>> --Zen saying
>>
>--
>Sincerely,
>Barbra Camara
>
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