[Closed] Body temperature

How much did you eat?

You burn more calories in cold weather to try and keep warm.

Virus

And if it anything like the one I'm still getting over, a week later .... good luck

Hit me side ways.... cant remember the last time I felt so ill... think I must be getting old ... have struggled to shake it off like I would have done half a dozen years ago

Ate about 2500 calories in total yesterday, 2000 in the day, then the rest after riding. Didn't feel especially tired until afterwards.

Good luck Ro5ey 🙁

Are you a Scottish Hora?

Not yet 😕

You might be on the verge of coming down with something. Sends my body temp haywire. Next thing i know I've got a cold or stomach bug.

I have this problem all the time when riding in the cold these days, has been affecting me for a few years now, didn't use to. I am rather overweight, but also quite muscular so when working generate quite a bit of heat.

I don't think it is down to blood sugar depletion, which is the most commonly espoused explanation. From what I can make out it comes down to the bodies systems attempts to regulate heat, and the affect of fat and age on the speed they can adapt to environmental changes.

Fat is considered as an insulator, and it kind of is, but it works both ways, it is perhaps better to think of it as thermal storage, when you work hard it stores heat, but when you get cold it stores the lower temperature. In itself it is inactive and cannot contribute to the bodies attempts to regulate temperature. So going from a warm enviroment after working hard it is in full on dump heat mode and doesn't react quick enough to going into a cold environment, the core is still sending the message to dump heat when the skin (and fat)is getting cold

ps I am not calling you fat, but I seem to recall past posts where I thought you were a similar build to me. So suck it up fatty.

pps I am not a doctor.

I'm not skinny MSP so your comment stands 🙂

Guess I need to wait and see if it's a bug/virus or something.

Did you have a soft drink in the pub?

Diet Coke (oh the shame)

I went for a lunchtime pootle two Sundays ago.

By the evening I was feeling a bit rough, by Monday I was sweating with a horrific fever.

Sport hurts. 😀

So basically I'm too sporty!

I've lost quite a lot of weight recently

Intentionally or inexplicably?

Intentionally

Intentionally

So discarded rather than lost or misplaced. (no need to look for it down the back of the sofa)

Or just the start of a cold?

Could be the start of not getting a cold - a temperature (which would make you feel cold) can be a result of your immune system kicking a lurgy into touch.

Age? Hot and cold flushes and all that 😉

Can be tonnes of things, virus/fever or something anxiety related or nothing obvious.

Check your actual temperature. Chances are it's rock solid the same whether you feel boiling hot or freezing cold. I get that a lot these days (I'm 40+ now). Frequently boiling hot late at night and yet the house temperature is the same all evening. Take my own temperature and doesn't shift.

This is a fever, you were feeling much colder than usual because of that... followed by sweat. Might be a flu or just a strong cold, or typhoid fever. kidding

Diet Coke (oh the shame)

with ice by any chance ?

Probably, can't really remember.

Still feeling cold and achy so I guess that's some sort of virus?

yeah had similar caused by having an icecream, nice ride out this time of year stopped at a cafe the sun was out all was lovely quite warm.... decided to have a small icecream, dropped my core temp and had a miserable ride home just couldn't get warm again.

Odd isn't it, never had that before. Just glad it wasn't too far from home 🙂

never had an icecream mid ride since, decidedly unpleasant experience.

I'm just going to play it safe with cake in future. And maybe a nice cup of tea.

I was going to suggest your are having the menopause 🙂
Did you strip down whilst in the pub? I find putting layers back on just before leaving helps stop the acclimatisation. Probably caught a chill and now coming down with something.

See your GP

Sweat and heat loss after exercise.

Cold drink.

Try it again without stopping.

Then again with a hot drink.

You're fine and it's cold.

Check your garments.

And probably MTFU regardless.

Diet coke? I may have made this up, but does the sweet taste convince the body that a sugary drink is forthcoming, thus causing it to reduce existing blood-sugar levels in some way? The net result being that the level drops dramatically as no new sugar is forthcoming.

IANAD

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Drac - Moderator
How much did you eat?
You burn more calories in cold weather to try and keep warm.
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Is it possible to lose weight by deliberately getting cold?

Pint of milk = win win

Spent about half an hour in the pub afterwards but no alcohol

There`s your problem no beer when your body was expecting it with a pub visit

Missed that. Your body reeked a terrible vengeance for your dry visit. Next time, gin it

Happened to me last March. I was riding quite happily in close to zero temperatures, went into a bike shop for around 10 minutes and couldn't warm up when I came out. I was so cold I felt ill, my energy dropped off and I had to stop for a bacon roll before I started feeling any better.

Any excuse

Diet coke? I may have made this up, but does the sweet taste convince the body that a sugary drink is forthcoming, thus causing it to reduce existing blood-sugar levels in some way? The net result being that the level drops dramatically as no new sugar is forthcoming.
IANAD

Blood glucose levels are measured in the pancreas

Do we not just think he got a bit chilly in a cold bike ride, then probably had the winter duvet and heating on or something, and then warmed up...??

"See your GP"....?!
I'm sure they'll do a fantastic job of nodding in agreement and "ummming" for you..
😉

DrP

😀

My wife is the practice nurse at my GPs surgery, she'd kill me if I turned up to say I'd got a bit cold.

DrP if you can just sign off on the gin and tonic and bacon sarnie prescription then that covers me for next time, she won't be able to argue.

Surely this is a standard phenomenon? the ride back home after a cold ride then pub visit is excruciating. Always has been, seems to be standard, takes flipping ages to warm back up again, you can still be cold AFTER a hot shower.

I'm going to pronounce you completely normal.

Pictonroad... With that kind of logic you could locum at my place.... 😉

DrP

I've often been cold after a winter cafe stop. Sweat on the ride out, cools you right down once you stop. By the time you head back out the door, still damp, it's full teeth chattering stuff.

Should be fine after a bath and whatnot mind.

Delayed onset malaria ?

Premature onset cat AIDS?

DrP

Whatever it is I still feel rough so I m going for some strain of a bit poorly.

Given that I've now been upgraded to GP status I feel qualified to revise my original diagnosis.

Completely normal with a seasonal viral infection.

I'm on strike next week so further clinical time will not be available.

HTH

Obliged

And the official verdict, having had to go and see the doctor due to a horrible rash and stuff (not on the cock to save you asking) is shingles.

It's like real life medicine..
Only 2/5 of the whole story, some red herring thrown in...then on a second opinion the truth comes out (the trash) 😉

Heal well..I had singles before. If you were under me as I crowd surfed at reading '99 covered in a blistering rash, I apologise..

DrP

🙂

In fairness to me, the rash is new. The tablets are as big as sugared almonds.

In fairness to me, the rash is new. The tablets are as big as sugared almonds.

five times a day too.... enjoy!!

DrP

Hey ho, at least I know what it is now.

The way my face felt yesterday morning I though my wife must have been punching me while I was asleep 🙂

I've had shingles before. Hurts like hell when the blisters begin to fill up with molten lava.

OP its bloody cold out at the moment even juts putting the bike in the car - i have taken a flask of tea on last three rides just to drink when i get in the car and an extra fleece. Its still only Feb (just)

Sorry to hear this, I understand it's a bloody awful thing to have.

It's not the nicest but I guess in the grand scheme of things there's a lot worse.

IME, Shingles goes something like:
"Phew, glad I caught it early, it's only a small patch - should clear up in no time".
"Why isn't it going? It's not hurting though - why do people say it hurts? Jessies"
"oh, yeah - I suppose I can feel it now.... doesn't really hurt though - maybe I'm just really tough?"
"oh wow, yeah that really hurts now"