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Feeling cold

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999sugarbabe

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Hi all,

Can anyone tell me, does diabetes make you feel the cold more :?:

I can't get warm (especially my extremities) despite wearing "thermals" and having the heating on (at GREAT expense) 24 hours a day. :(
 
I am not sure if Diabetes is responsible for feeling the cold. :?

However, as this is my first Winter after losing almost 5 stone I am definitely feeling the cold. I always used to wander around in t-shirt and shorts when at home.....now, I find I freeze my .......socks off ! Like you heating is on most of the time and when I do go out it is 'wooly pully' time plus gloves as well. Still I am nice and cosy now..... :D
 
I find wearing two pairs of socks and lots of thin layers helps a bit.After losing three and a half stone I do feel the cold this year as well!!
 
I wish I could use losing weight as my excuse but, if anything, I'm gaining weight steadily :!: :lol: Some of it is due to my physical inactivity :roll: these days.
 
im always cold too,
have u had your thyroid checked? an underactive thyroid can cause oversensitivity to cold :D
 
My Son feels the cold more now but he has lost a fait bit of weight since last winter and is due to start treatment for an underactive thyroid :| big heating bills for me!
 
cugila said:
I find I freeze my .......socks off ! :D
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That is counter productive :wink: :!:

I am only (complained of being) cold when Ann is in bed first & I snuggle up :D She isn't diabetic, but is on a lot of heart medication which we attribute to her feeling much colder than me normally.
 
I am always cold too.
I don't blame it on the T2, but think it causes my difficulty in losing weight. I can't burn it off.
I wear layers. Camisoles and leggings under my trousers, L/S shirt and jumper.preferably with a high wool content. Nothing warms like wool. In addition, I wear closed shoes with insoles;
outdoors a very padded and long anorak, scarf and gloves. Hat too if it's really chilly
Hana
PS our forefathers and foremothers would have been horrified at much of the clothing we wear today. thin synthetic clothing made for fashion and not warmth. Who, other than me and my mother[aged92] owns and wears a proper winter coat? I'll have to replace mine since I lost weight, which is something I resent.
 
Who, other than me and my mother[aged92] owns and wears a proper winter coat?
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I do - a proper wool one with a quilted lining - trouble is, now I walk everywhere, it's too warm! It's also now too big, but I think I'll get the sewing machine out and make it double-breasted....
 
i can honestly say since being diabetic i feel the cold alot more than i used to(been diabetic for just over a year) so i can definatly say i feel the cold more now :roll:
 
I also have been feeling the cold this year - again like several others here I have lost over 2 stone since being diagnosed at the end of last year. BUT having bought new clothes for the summer and Autumn I have not yet stocked up on thicker trousers in my new size (my old trousers keep slipping down :oops: ). Perhaps it is the damp rather than the cold that is getting to us all.
 
I would say that diabetes has definitely shot my temperature control. If you come to our house you will easily recognise me as I am the one with big wooly socks, a woolly pully and a hot water bottle - and everyone else is not! :lol:
 
must be! but well done I lost 6 stone few years ago then went thru loads of personal traumas, have since put most of it back on and start again in Jan, do remem got to my target in summer and felt coldest ever in winter .. no fat for warm lol
 
I'm often cold too now, and have put it down to extreme weight loss leaving me skeletal (seem to be keeping at 8 and a half stone this week though) but at 850 feet above sea level we're always cold-ish here. Feet get a draught in this house and I always have an extra fleece on as I work. Wrapping a (double) rug round my legs at my desk seems to help for that. But it's definitely more noticeable this year (I may have had DB longer than diagnosis but being normal weight must have helped keep the cold at bay).
DG
 
I started getting cold all the time when I got thyroid disease.

Diabetics and particularly female type 1 diabetics are more likely to suffer with thyroid disease than the general population. The thyroid controls the body's thermostat and an underfunctioning thyroid can leave a sufferer feeling constantly cold.

It's definitely worth getting your thyroid checked. Also bear in mind that what UK GPs class as 'normal' for thyroid results would be considered pathological in lots of other countries such as the US and on the continent.

NHS endocrinologists have raised the bar for diagnosis of thyroid disease so that many people are not diagnosed until they have been suffering symptoms for many years. In the US, a person would get diagnosed with a TSH over 3.04 whereas in the UK they make you wait until your TSH is over 10.
Therefore, don't just assume that a 'normal' result means you don't have thyroid disease.

goji :)
 
I definitely feel the cold more since I've been diabetic - not just in the winter but in the chilly bits of the summer too... We go camping a lot in the summer and I've been teeth-shatteringly cold on several occasions. My answer is to put loads of layers on and pack for winter all year round :wink:
Cheers, BB
 
I've been diagnosed type 2 for a year, thyroid tested normal apparently but I've never felt the cold before this winter (not that winters properly here yet), it doesn't seem to matter what I do I cant get warm, also diagnosed with Raynauds at the same time and my fingers turn grey at the slightest change in temperature, looks like its going to be a long winter here :lol:
 
Andy A said:
I've been diagnosed type 2 for a year, thyroid tested normal apparently but I've never felt the cold before this winter (not that winters properly here yet), it doesn't seem to matter what I do I cant get warm, also diagnosed with Raynauds at the same time and my fingers turn grey at the slightest change in temperature, looks like its going to be a long winter here :lol:
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Same here, Andy A - I'm on 2x10mg slow release Nifedipine (Coracten) for the Raynaud's. I think it may be caused by an auto-immune thingy called Sjogrens, but the doc doesn't seem to concerned with that, mainly I think because there's no cure and only the symptoms can be alleviated, but I haven't got much in the way of symptoms, at the moment at least. You haven't had swollen salivary glands/dry eyes/mouth by any chance? (Apart from the thirst from the diabetes, obviously!).

I've also been feeling the cold a lot, and although it may be partly down to losing weight to control the diabetes I think it predated that, although I think I'd perhaps lost a stone or so in muscle before I was diagnosed T2, which I think may have been due to the high BG, and thus may be related to feeling cold.

I've no real problem controlling my weight, which I think is a symptom of thyroid problems, so it presumably can't be that.
 
Jst after I was diagnosed I started dropping on average 1kg a week, which lasted for around 4 months, I initialy put it down to the changes in diest but it appears that I lost a lot of muscle in my legs and arms around the same time, whether this was due to a change in lifestyle (I was, and still am feeling quite ill and hevent been as active as I should), there was an enzyme (cant remember what it was called) present in several bloodtests at the time, which is aparently released when muscle wastage is occuring so this would all tie in...

As for other symptoms, I dont suffer with any of the above to any great extent apart from a dry mouth which comes and goes, but have the last few weeks again been suffering from pains and numbness, mainly in my left arm, but also my right, and after waking in the morning my fingers often feel "dead" and it takes a few minutes of trying to move them about for them to go back to normal.

Another major symptom is dizziness after eating, bg doesn't effect this, nor does the amount of carbs consumed, it appears to be just the fact that I have food in my stomach that triggers this, then pain under my left ribs and up my arm, having googled the symptoms (the worst thing you can do lol) there appears to be a mass of people suffering with similar symptoms, some for a long period (5 years plus) who have been through the mill with bloodtests, ecg's nerve testing and various other testing with no diagnosis being given...
 
I used to wear sandals and t-shirts in the winter without discomfort.

Now I've lost just over 8 stone, boy, do I feel the cold! Finally got an electric blanket - once I start out warm in bed, it's fine for the rest of the night

Now using wooly socks and layering clothing more carefully - but I'm still a leading member of the 'cold nose' club - anyone else?

Mark.
 
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