anyone else cold?

[Ohio Buckeye]

Here it is the first week in October and I am already freezing cold.
Have furnace running, sweater on, candles burning and I am freezing.
How I dread winter coming on.  Is anyone else cold?  Anything you can
do for it other than just bundling up?  Wonder what makes me cold
all the time.

[Riki]

Low iron and low hemoglobin... and yes.. I'm always cold... I always have sweaters, slippers, and blankets on hand all year long.... and I live with my mom, who's going through the change... so we've got both extremes.. I'm freezing, she's sweating.. *LOL*

[SpeedFleX]

when it's snowing I for some reason still run around in a tshirt.


It's 50 here at the moment way to warm for my taste...

[goofynina]

I am always cold too, shivering cold, totally opposite the way i used to be, i used to sleep with the doors open and the fan on in mid-winter but not anymore and even with being all bundled up, i am still shivering 

[BigSky]

Cold only bothers me when it get in the 20-30 below.

[Rerun]

I don't know anymore.  I'm cold sometimes and then HOT.  So, I think that change thing is hitting me too.  But if you are COLD I suggest you get some white rice and fill a white tube sock half full and tie a knot in the end.  Throw it in the microwave for a couple of minutes and go snuggle with it and a blanket.  It is so warm and you can use it over and over again.

[charee]

Iam not yet on dialysis but feel the cold heaps more than i used to I have been told its low iron also I get a shot of epo every 2 weeks hoping that will improve that .

[Zach]

I tend to be hot, rather than cold on dialysis.  I turn down the machine temp. to 36 C.

[Panda_9]

I'll swap you, it is hot here and is going to be one hell of a summer. So not looking forward to it!

[babi68]

I agree Amber79. Allready starting to drink too much. I feel cold while doing dialysis, but warm up once outside in the sun. Have a pool and won't be going in that until its at least 30 degrees, hubby has it set on 26 and thats too cool for me...Liz

[kitkatz]

I am so cold in air conditioning I will go outside in the 100 degree heat to warm up.  I am also cold on a consistent basis.  I think it has to do with anemia.  I also think some bodies just adjust to cold better and worse than others.  Mine says cold, cold, cold.  I use a microwave warmer thingy that I bought at the mall a few years ago.  I love it. Sometimes I will take it to work in the winter and keep warm all day with it on my shoulders.  How spoiled I can be sometimes.

[Sluff]

I'm in Northern Wiscomsin it's getting cold here but I wait until until the last minute to turn the heat on, just another dang bill..I'm starting to wear warmer clothes which sucks.

[Bajanne]

Well, send some cold my way, please!   I am in the Caribbean where it is NEVER cold, and I love cold.  Even with the A/C in our unit, sometimes I still feel hot.  I am looking forward to December when it gets a bit cooler.

[angieskidney]

I hate winters as my fingers turn white and numb so easily and so do my toes (even before the fistula so it isn't steals syndrome).

I also hate it because I only have a bicycle to get to work

[nkviking75]

Here it is the first week in October and I am already freezing cold.
Have furnace running, sweater on, candles burning and I am freezing.
How I dread winter coming on.  Is anyone else cold?  Anything you can
do for it other than just bundling up?  Wonder what makes me cold
all the time.

 

I gather you're talking about how you feel in general, as opposed to during treatment.  My biggest problem with comfort is the other members of my family!!!  If I can control the thermostat, I have no great problem with comfort.  During treatment, I generally refuse the blanket.  But when it's cold in the unit, I expect to see a side of beef hanging from the ceiling.  I tend to get colder as treatment wears on, but most days it's not much colder.  At rinse back when they squeeze a saline bag to start returning my blood to me, sometimes it feels as though the saline has been on ice.

[angieskidney]

At rinse back when they squeeze a saline bag to start returning my blood to me, sometimes it feels as though the saline has been on ice.

I heard it is bad to squeeze the bad. I mean, when they did that with me they later learned I had a narrowing that a fistulogram was needed to fix it.

[kitkatz]

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I heard it is bad to squeeze the bad.

But I want the BAD squeezed. It feels so good.




EDITED:  Fixed quote tag - Goofynina/Moderator

[nkviking75]

At rinse back when they squeeze a saline bag to start returning my blood to me, sometimes it feels as though the saline has been on ice.

I heard it is bad to squeeze the bad. I mean, when they did that with me they later learned I had a narrowing that a fistulogram was needed to fix it.

I hadn't heard that.  My veins are so small that both my fistulas weren't all that great anyway.  I have a graft now, and relatively speaking, for me it's almost paradise.

[tubes]

I'm cold, but I love it.  Hate summer, heat just drains me so fast.  Today it was around 50 degrees and probably much colder when I left for dialysis at 5 am.  I was in a tshirt, shorts and flip flops. I'd rather be cold then hot.  If it is cold you can always put more clothes on.  If you are hot, you can only take so much off.  LMFAO    ! ! !

[glitter]

I don't know anymore.  I'm cold sometimes and then HOT.  So, I think that change thing is hitting me too.  But if you are COLD I suggest you get some white rice and fill a white tube sock half full and tie a knot in the end.  Throw it in the microwave for a couple of minutes and go snuggle with it and a blanket.  It is so warm and you can use it over and over again.

that is a great idea!!!

[angieskidney]

I'm cold, but I love it.  Hate summer, heat just drains me so fast.  Today it was around 50 degrees and probably much colder when I left for dialysis at 5 am.  I was in a tshirt, shorts and flip flops. I'd rather be cold then hot.  If it is cold you can always put more clothes on.  If you are hot, you can only take so much off.  LMFAO    ! ! !

When I am on HEmo I can't take clothes off. My arms are kinda tied up and mobility limited. It is easier to cover up with a blanket. So I guess I should prefer the cold. But I hate the humidity when it is sweltering. I wasn't allowed to swim for years! Now that I finally got my catheter out I will be able to ... next summer ... 

I hate bone chilling cold. I hate for my fingers to lose all feeling. I also hate being all sweaty and my back being itchy and me not being able to scratch it. I get both in dialysis at different times.

I just want to be comfortable!

[Ohio Buckeye]

I'm on PD.  The cold that I feel is just being cold all the time. 
Didn't use to be that way.  Set electric blanket on high.  Always
bundled up. sit in front of the fireplace in winter to keep warm.
shivering cold.  burrrrrrrr  cold here today.

[waitlisted]

I am not yet in dialysis and my hemoglobin is still over 11, so I am not diagnosed kidney anemic either and not getting EPO (yet). I am also feeling cold lot of times, especially at work in airconditioning I am having gooseflesh most of the time, when having short sleeves. Also my hands are often very cold. This has definitely changed for me, while as younger I was always hot.

One nephrologist told me that kidney disease affects to the body's temperature feeling/handling mechanism.

[Ohio Buckeye]

Yes, it is as if our bodies doesn't have a thermostat or if
we do it is not working properly.  I remember in the summer when I
would get off work and get in my car when anyone
else would think it was unbearably hot, it would
feel so good to me to get warm again.

[angieskidney]

shivering cold.  burrrrrrrr  cold here today.

Oh that is right! You are affected by the SAME weather I am experiencing right now eh?

Damn it is cold! Below freezing and they say it might snow!! Crap! ANd I have to ride my bicycle to work through this (Yesterday was pure hell .. and windy to boot!!)