Low Body Temperature anyone?

Just found this on line: Body temperature is the foundation of good health. A low body temperature is a strong indication that there is something wrong that can be fixed. Just like a fever (high body temperature) is a good indicator that "something's wrong" and can cause people to feel terrible, so can a low body temperature. A low body temperature is more than enough to explain many health problems, such as: Fatigue, headaches, migraines, PMS, easy weight gain, depression, irritability, fluid retention, anxiety and panic attacks, hair loss, poor memory, poor concentration, low sex drive, unhealthy nails, dry skin and hair, cold intolerance, heat intolerance, low motivation, low ambition, insomnia, allergies, acne, carpal tunnel syndrome, asthma, odd swallowing sensations, constipation, irritable bowel syndrome, muscle and joint aches, slow healing, sweating abnormalities, Raynaud's Phenomenon, itchiness, irregular periods, easy bruising, ringing of the ears, flushing, bad breath, dry eyes/blurred vision, and more.

kira:  Yes, you are correct!  They are related but rather then taking medications (I tried this and it didn't work) the idea is to reset your body so you don't need the medications.

impositive:  I started it out of frustration as I have a combination of adrenal exhaustion & low thyroid.  I was told it can take years to recover from adrenal exhaustion and that's just too long!

impositive:  Well, I tried to do a reset two weeks agoo and it was successful but I was over ambitious and didn't realize I could not expose myself to any stress, i.e. air conditioning, for two weeks and my temp crashed and I have been struggling ever since.  I had to use pills the first time and today I used the pills to try again and hopefully I won't be an idiot this time so that it actually sticks.  The first two weeks are crucial, then the next two or three months you have to be careful to not let your temp crash and then after that you just have to monitor yourself whenever it's cold out.  This requires a lot of dressing slightly warm and never letting the body get chilled-always have a coat handy.  Crossing my fingers that this time it works.  I have the same problem-my husband is dying with the heat so the bathroom & bedroom are my hot rooms.  Failure is not an option!  This would be impossible to do while working especially in an ac'd room.

Joylieswithin:  If I could do this with willpower alone...I have been like this, I am guessing, for almost my entire life.  It got worse after a car accident 5 years ago and even worse after BC and all of the surgeries.  Today I did the reset method using a combination of T3 & T4 but only for one day.  The next two weeks will be telling.  If I can get my temp up a little more each day during this time without allowing it to crash, then get past the 2 or 3 month mark, then maybe I can figure out to reset for life.  Until I used the pills, I could only get my temp up in a hot shower.  The key is to get up in the morning and the most important thing is to get your temp up and then keep it up for as long as you can.  I could not do this if I had a job to go to.

joylieswithin:  I do find myself "willing" my temp up every day.  I picture myself pushing the mercury up on a thermometer, lol.  I do not recommend using one of those!  It feels like I am retraining my mind and my body to get in agreement on this.

So far so good-I have had my temp up since 9 am this morning and holding strong with the help of warm clothes and a heater.   The first two weeks are crucial and will require very high maintenance on my part:  a space heater and dressing slightly warm is really important.  So is eating something every couple of hours.  This eating often should also boost your metabolism which also helps in keeping your temp up.

ruthbru:  This is interesting and not surprising!  Unfortunately, when you have low body temp, most people run not only too cold during the day but too cold at night.  I seem to have trouble shutting down at night and getting my body to cool down but then I have the additional problem where when I finally do cool down in the middle of the night my body temp drops really low-95.5 to 96.9-which causes me to breakout in a cold sweat.  I sometimes wake up and the bed is soaked and I am shivering.  I have been known to change clothes several times a night and sometimes out of exaspersation I get up, dress extremely warm, grab my space heater and head for the living room couch because now the bed is too wet.

tnbcRuth:  Interesting you should bring up the point about the body thinking it's dying.  In very simple terms, the body somehow decides at a certain point that running at 98.6 is dangerous and so it fights with you when you want to bring your temp back up to this point.  When I was in my car accident the thought that went through my brain was: So this is how I die-imagine my shock when I was still alive!  I shook uncontrollably for hours afterwards and this is when my brain quit working and I started having serious problems.  Unfortunately I had never heard of the body temp connection.  I feel that if I had reset then, I never would have ended up with BC because my body would have fought it off!  So in answer to your question, the mind is a very powerful piece to this puzzle and I think it's important to focus on the goal of 98.6 and for the body to learn that it isn't dangerous to operate at this temperature.

geogal:  I don't know anything about Herceptin but I know with chemo, if you ran a fever it was a signal to call the dr.  Funny thing is, a fever is our body's way of killing something that is wrong with us so fevers are a very important part of the body's immune function.  But I am not a dr.-do you have a number you can call?  I hate to give advice on something I know absolutely nothing about which is herceptin.

impositive:  I completely agree with you that at low body temps the body starts to decompose but it's more complicated then that.  The body has learned a way to survive and even though it makes us ill the body thinks it knows best.  So the trick is to teach your body that, no, running lower then 98.6 is not working and you prove this by getting up to 98.6 without anything bad happening.  Do this often enough and the body "remembers" to go there.  It should kill pretty much anything that's going wrong in the body once you bring your temp up.

Hi Rennasus!  It is very fascinating to me, too.  It's such a simple thing but affects us so profoundly.