Problem feeling comfortable temperature-wise

debodun

debodun

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Lately I can never seem to feel comfortable with how warm or cold I feel. When it feels like it getting chilly in the house, then the furnace starts. In a few minutes it feels like a sauna. When it shuts off, the cold come back pretty quickly, yet the temperature on the furnace thermostat always says 65F (18C).
 

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debodun said:
Lately I can never seem to feel comfortable with how warm or cold I feel. When it feels like it getting chilly in the house, then the furnace starts. In a few minutes it feels like a sauna. When it shuts off, the cold come back pretty quickly, yet the temperature on the furnace thermostat always says 65F (q8C).
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Natural aging = body starts losing its ability to regulate its temperature.
 
Suggest to Get MD to test your Thyroid and harmone levels.

Also can be blood glucose too high or low

Finally some genetic can cause poor peripheral circulation.

None of this gets better as we age.

Personally I am in good health but always feel cold.

Jon
 
debodun said:
When it feels like it getting chilly in the house, then the furnace starts. In a few minutes it feels like a sauna. When it shuts off, the cold come back pretty quickly, yet the temperature on the furnace thermostat always says 65F
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Brrr, I would feel permanently frozen at 65F.

My apartment is similar, but I have a little temperature/humidity gadget in sight of the computer and it has been showing that just 10 feet away from the furnace thermostat (which is 10 feet closer to the balcony door) is a little more than a degree cooler that the furnace thinks it is.

So, depending how far away from your thermostat you are, it might be significantly colder where you are sitting.

And, I read somewhere that our bodies react not just to temperature but also to the direction of temperature change, so if it is cooling off we'll feel the cooling more and if it is heating up we'll feel the heating up more. Something like that (don't quote me).

ETA - I've also been feeling the changes a lot and have a fleece light jacket that I keep putting on and taking off.
 
I'm going through the same thing, Deb; cold one minute and burning up the next. I just checked the humidity in the house and it says 53%. Feels like 3%, though, maybe because I grew up in an area that wasn't this dry and the older I get, the more the dryness bothers me.
 
jujube said:
If my feet are warm, then I can stand it a little cooler. But let my feet get cold and there's no amount of heat that makes me happy. Deb, do you have any wool socks?
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Yes, true for me too. I wear some slipper socks I got at Mayo Clinic when I go to bed. They said at Mayo they disposed of them and I could take them. Nice and light but enough to keep my feet warm.
 
I am wearing thermal underwear with fleece sweat pants, a sweat shirt and socks. I need a better choice of foot covering, though. My feet are cold too. I have the furnace pumping hot water and a kerosene space heater burning. I am not shivering, but can hardly wait until spring. These cold days just drag on.
 
The thermostat in my house is set at 72 degrees around the clock...except around 4pm. For some reason I get cold at that time every day and jack up the heat 2 more degrees. Then I turn it back down to 72 while I'm cooking dinner and it stays that way until the next day at 4pm. Weird.
 
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