Have you tried wearing thick long socks to keep your feet warm. Are feet have alot of nerve endings and if they're cold your body may feel cold.
________________________________ From: Bill Lang <[email protected]> To: Don Price <[email protected]> Cc: Dave Krehbiel <[email protected]>; greg <[email protected]>; "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, March 6, 2014 6:11 PM Subject: Re: [QUAD-L] am I cold, or am I hot I seem to be always cold! 24 years of shivering. I am sitting here in a 74 degree room wrapped in a blanket with a hood and a neck warmer. That works for me most times. I feel for you. Sent from my iPad Billy On Mar 6, 2014, at 17:42, Don Price <[email protected]> wrote: Don't know if you touch alcohol, but a glass of red wine seems to reset my internal temperature gauge. Of course, alcohol and certain medications are not a good combination, so be careful there. > > >Your situation, as described, seems to be more neurological than >environmental. In my opinion, it's not a matter of blankets and air >temperature, but more likely related to Autonomic Dysreflexia, inappropriate >vasodialation, poor blood circulation or something affecting your >hypothalamus. Maybe a combination. I assume you've talked to your physician >about this? > > >I hope you can figure it out because being (feeling) cold is miserable! >Don. > > > >On Thursday, March 6, 2014 2:54 PM, Dave Krehbiel <[email protected]> >wrote: > >I don’t know if it would help your problem, but I sleep much more comfortably >at night (and feel warmer during the day) when I wear a knit cap. >-Dave > >From:greg [mailto:[email protected]] >Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2014 4:10 PM >To: [email protected] >Subject: [QUAD-L] am I cold, or am I hot > >I've mentioned this before, but I never heard if anyone else was experiencing >the same problem. I can sit in the sun for long times in hot weather and feel >fine. A few times I have gotten overheated, but at those times I felt hot and >overheated. And in Seattle at night I would use a blanket, a sheet, and a >heavy comforter. And all through the night I felt toasty warm. > >But the last few years when I'm in bed daytime or night, but mostly nighttime. >Just using a sheet and one blanket. When my arms are covered. I can feel like >I am freezing cold, I can even be shivering. I can turn up the heat, I can add >a blanket, but I just feel colder. I often check my temperature and it is >about 97 or there about, my normal temperature is about 96.5. I am so sure >that I am cold, my arms feel like all the hair is standing up and my arms are >shaking. Then I realize what must be happening, that I'm overheated. So I >uncover my arms and at first, when the air gets my arms I feel even a bit >colder. But as my arms cool off they start to feel better, no longer hot or >cold. But then in the middle of the night they get cold again from being >uncovered. So it is damned if I do, damned if I don't. > >My arms often feel cold and tingly, except when the sun is shining on them. >But only when under covers do they get to bad. When I sit under the furnace >vent and get warm I don't shivering like that. When I fall asleep with my arms >covered I wake up shivering, my arms are clenched tight, and I would bet >everything I have that I am cold. Obviously I would lose that bet. > >I can't figure out how to stay warm night, without feeling like I'm freezing. > >Greg > > >
