Just curious really - do any of you feel the cold easily? Now? and generally, in the past, your tendency?
Just after somebody said something it rang a bell with me… I was wondering whether others here tend to feel the cold…
I’ve gone through phases of life when I’ve felt the cold to a ridiculous degree - and I always have to dress up warm or I feel horrible, have even been known to wear a hat in bed in very very cold winter nights… (very sexy of course!) - as for walking around town in a t-shirt and mini skirt on a cold December night - the sight of it makes me FEEL cold!!!
In some ways ((ducking down here!!)) almost welcome the hot flushes even tho they are sweaty…
I used to be a really cold person (although I never got as bad as a hat in bed…) but now I get quite warm thanks to those hateful hot sweats - never thought I’d be grateful for cold weather !!! Partner has just walked in wondering why I’ve got the window open - brill timing. Looks like I’m the opposite to you but my partner’s ex-wife is always cold apart from the hot sweat moments. Out with the chunky jumpers & thermals and in with the art of layering for me !
I guess everyone’s different & it’s another of the wonderful side effects of this disease.
I feel the cold dreadfully this winter, but haven’t found it this bad before. I have just finished treatment, surgery, chemo, rads and 12 months Herceptin.
Anne
I have always felt the cold and have never had good circulation in my hands or feet. When I was a child I went ice skating all the time and used to get terrible chilblains from it. However since I had treatment for BC I’ve found I’m even worse. I even had cavity wall insulation done to my whole house last winter and I still feel cold.
I feel the cold too. Even on a cariibean holiday i was wearing a cardi at night an was cold. I have 2 duvets on my bed, aswell as waring pj’s and sock to bed with a hot water bottle. My hair has grown back now and helps insulate warmth a bit. I do remeber being 'hairless and wearing wooly hats to bed. I am always cold and therefore always drinking hot drinks to keep warm… then I constantly need the loo! I even avoid nights out in the winter as high heels, coldness, skirts etc make me feel cold just thinking of it. =bbbrrrrrrr. I was like this before Bc, I do not think I hace got better or worse really. Just glad i not the only COLD person! :-))
I’ve always been a chilly mortal (as my mum used to call me), but since all my treatment (mast, chemo, radio, arimidex, herceptin) I’ ve been even chillier! I was even taking a hot water bottle to bed with me during the summer this year!
I have been really cold since on the treatment. Just wear layers and layers. Just cant get warm unless I have a hot water bottle and I swear by wrap around fleecies - after three years of treatment I have never had a hot flush - they do have their uses
Chemo plus all the hormonal treatment has put me throught the menopause. For many people that means hot flushes but what it means for others is a sensitivity to changes in temperature whether hot or cold. I’ve noticed that the temperature range in which I feel comfortable (neither too hot nor too cold) has become more limited. Hence I occasionally get a hot flush - usually if I’ve had too much caffeine - but if the temperature drops I feel cold much quicker than I would have done before BC.
- they do have their uses 