I have spent most of my life being cold because of the anemia due to loss of blood. I usually have not been a heavy sweater. I could even be outside on a summer day and even though I was hot, I would not get as hot as others and didn't sweat as much as they did.
Even in the summer I would be cold indoors. I have always kept my a/c between 72 and 75 because I would be freezing. I blamed it on not growing up with a/c. A lot of times my feet would feel cold inside my socks and shoes.
In March I had a hysterectomy. Before that I was anemic all the time due to very heavy menstrual periods. During the surgery I lost a lot of blood (which is typical), and it took about a month for my blood cell count to build back up. I was freezing in that first month after surgery.
When I was a teenager I remember sweating a lot, but I always just thought that was hormones and anxiety associated with being an adolescent. When I get nervous, my palms and feet sweat. Other than that, my sweating has always been very minimal.
I've notice the last couple of years, even before the hysterectomy, that I would sweat more than I used to. I had started taking iron a lot, to try to keep the red blood cell count up. But even then it wasn't as much as it is now.
I'm feeling hot all the time. ALL THE TIME. It's not hot flashes; it just this constant warmth and almost continuous ...humidity, from sweat under my arms and ...elsewhere...
It's grossing me out. I'm in my early 40's and feel like sweat is a real thing for me for the first time in my life.
I'm guessing this is how everyone else usually feels and why they would look at me like I had two heads when I complained about being cold, and why they would get upset at the a/c set at 75?
Even in the summer I would be cold indoors. I have always kept my a/c between 72 and 75 because I would be freezing. I blamed it on not growing up with a/c. A lot of times my feet would feel cold inside my socks and shoes.
In March I had a hysterectomy. Before that I was anemic all the time due to very heavy menstrual periods. During the surgery I lost a lot of blood (which is typical), and it took about a month for my blood cell count to build back up. I was freezing in that first month after surgery.
When I was a teenager I remember sweating a lot, but I always just thought that was hormones and anxiety associated with being an adolescent. When I get nervous, my palms and feet sweat. Other than that, my sweating has always been very minimal.
I've notice the last couple of years, even before the hysterectomy, that I would sweat more than I used to. I had started taking iron a lot, to try to keep the red blood cell count up. But even then it wasn't as much as it is now.
I'm feeling hot all the time. ALL THE TIME. It's not hot flashes; it just this constant warmth and almost continuous ...humidity, from sweat under my arms and ...elsewhere...
It's grossing me out. I'm in my early 40's and feel like sweat is a real thing for me for the first time in my life.
I'm guessing this is how everyone else usually feels and why they would look at me like I had two heads when I complained about being cold, and why they would get upset at the a/c set at 75?
