Cold Flashes?
We hear every day about women of a certain age dealing with hot flashes. They even have all sorts of cute names for this annoyance: power surges, personal summer, the list goes on and on.
But, there is also a biological response called cold flashes. Some women get cold chills that do not follow the hot flash, it is just cold.
Methinks I've got those. I am entering the point where hot flashes typically start (actually I hit that a couple of years ago) but as of yet nothing. However, in the last few months I find myself getting horribly cold for no apparent reason. It can be 75 degrees and I am freezing and nothing I do will warm me up - hot shower, hot tea, bundling up...nothing, instead I am shivering, with ice cold hands, the whole nine yards.
It would make sense. I have blood pressure that runs low, I have a body temperature that runs below "normal" and for most of my life I have been cold when other people aren't. I'm not rail thin so it can't be put down to not having "enough meat on my bones" in fact I am considered overweight for my height. Although why a size 12 on a 5'6" person is considered that I have no clue. I am healthy. I eat well. I don't overdo much of anything... I do underdo exercise but I'm working on that.
So I intend to do some more research of this cold flash thing. It would be just like me to be odd this way.
But, there is also a biological response called cold flashes. Some women get cold chills that do not follow the hot flash, it is just cold.
Methinks I've got those. I am entering the point where hot flashes typically start (actually I hit that a couple of years ago) but as of yet nothing. However, in the last few months I find myself getting horribly cold for no apparent reason. It can be 75 degrees and I am freezing and nothing I do will warm me up - hot shower, hot tea, bundling up...nothing, instead I am shivering, with ice cold hands, the whole nine yards.
It would make sense. I have blood pressure that runs low, I have a body temperature that runs below "normal" and for most of my life I have been cold when other people aren't. I'm not rail thin so it can't be put down to not having "enough meat on my bones" in fact I am considered overweight for my height. Although why a size 12 on a 5'6" person is considered that I have no clue. I am healthy. I eat well. I don't overdo much of anything... I do underdo exercise but I'm working on that.
So I intend to do some more research of this cold flash thing. It would be just like me to be odd this way.
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