Cold to the bone

[RedFox]

I'm not totally sure of my observations on this, but after leaving it since last night I've decided to post.
The weather for my part of the world was about -1oC last night...which is no where near as cold as it has been. I was also waring my thermal layers, so it should not have been a problem. When I left work Friday night I nearly stopped in my tracks as the air actually hurt my lungs to breath it felt so cold. By the time I reached my car (at a brisk pace) my face, hand, legs and feet where frozen.
I didn't think much of this until at about 4am I woke up (under 4 layers and waring thermals...which has left me toasty every night so far this winter) cold to the bone.
I got up and walked around, which seemed to help a lot. Outside there was a very small amount of ice on the car windows, but nothing major. The sky looked slightly over cast....but could have been ice crystals instead of cloud?

I went back to bed and felt code to my bones within 5 minutes....my face hurt it was so cold (I should note my bed is a captains bed, so I'm a few feet away from the ceiling....it seemed warmer downstairs than it did close to the ceiling.....).
I put my head under the covers which should have made me way to hot....but I was barely warm enough.

I got up again and had really bad cramps in both legs....so used some magnesium oil. On going back to bed I noticed that everything seemed warmer having used the oil on my chest and legs.

The death of all those birds and fish was on my mind during this time....

*edit* forgot to add that the magnesium oil seemed to alleviate the cold.

I don't know if it is the contrast from the slightly warmer days, or something else.....but I can only remember once in my life ever feeling this cold, and I wasn't waring thermals at the time! I may be mistaken but their seems to be something about this cold that saps heat (through layers/walls) very quickly. Not good.
I'll be using the magnesium oil before bed.

 

[Maia]

Redfox. Wow, did your post describe exactly my situation.

Cold to the bone is exactly what I have been going through.

I wear long johns 24/7 now under my jeans and sherpa shirts (with a scarf around my neck), wool socks and fuzzy slippers in the house and at night under my sweatsuit. My husband has been asking when is he going to get to see some skin and I told him, maybe around March or April

We're in the Chicago area and cold to the bone it is. Even my bones are cold. I can always tell when snow is moving in as my bones start to ache and my head feels heavy.

I have on my bed at the moment, one over sheet, one blanket, one quilt and two yes two down comforters.

My husband has Viking blood in him while I am scotch, English, Welsh, Irish, French and Greek. he is running around sweating in his shorts (no tee shirt, no shoes - just shorts in the house).

I do exercise (not as often as I should but that only warms me up for an hour or two).

One thing that does help is having hot tea at regular intervals, does seem to warm you up from the inside out.

To me, being cold is painful.

My husband is stepping out on the back deck right now and it is 14F.

Last night, my son who runs hot like my husband, actually got his buffalo hide (huge thick thing, I get if he dies before me ).

And for all you animal lovers out there, This buffalo is from a local farm in Illinois where they are organically fed, and allowed to roam freely in a big beautiful pasture we visited. I personally only eat a little fish and chicken here and there but this buffalo had a happy life. The people who run this place really take good care of their animals.

Global warming, is not happening here in Illinois.

 

[Ellipse]

Redfox,

Can be related to your weight loss no ? You were alone or other reported a sensation of cold too ? Last, do you mean -1 °C or -10 Celsius ?

 

[Al Today]

Yep cold to the bone. We heat our house with wood, and that can be warm to the bone! We keep chucking wood in the wood burner and it doesn't get us in our skivies, as usual. Cold emanating through the windows, the doors and every other crack cold can find. Whew, it's cold.!.!.!

 

[RedFox]

Redfox,

Can be related to your weight loss no ? You were alone or other reported a sensation of cold too ? Last, do you mean -1 °C or -10 Celsius ?

-1 °C
I don't think its related to my weight loss (but could be wrong), as its been down to about -10 °C (as far as I know) before Christmas, and I was toasty warm in the same clothes/night ware/bed covers I am waring now....I have two duvets a blanket and a dressing gown on my bed at the moment.

The cold just seems to have a bitterness to it that actually scares me a little, so its entirely possible I'm distorting things due to the emotional responce. I cannot recall it ever being this bitter.
I did wonder if it was just me....but my dad said it was bitterly cold last night too (he said the car was frozen solid at about 9pm).

Perhaps the weather reports are lying about the temperature....or something else is at work?

 

[Palinurus]

Hi Redfox!

I really do sympathize with your ordeal, being very susceptible myself to all sorts of weather changes (allergic in nature - pun intended :P ).

From my own observations, I can draw two possible explanations which by no means are mutually exclusive.

First off, from what you are describing I infer that a rather sudden increase of moisture in the air might do this trick to you. Moist air penetrates the body far more easily - and with it, the cold too. Especially the lungs are prone to painfull reactions from that. I suffer this myself a lot with certain spells of weather...

Secondly, there exists a certain weather condition called temperature inversion. This means that - in this specific case - colder layers are superseeded with warmer layers which as such hinder or terminate the free flow of air and the mixing of those layers. This can lead to 'pools' of denser cold areas locally, since cold always seeks its lowest point of gathering. This brings sometimes very locally confined cold spots to the fore and you may have suffered from such a phenomenon that particular night.

As far as I know, there is very little you can do about this when you are hypersensitive to this type of environmental conditions. Every time these phenomena occur, you are vulnerable to some extent. Avoiding exposure seems to be the main thing, as far as I can tell...

I hope this attempt at an explanation would be helpful in some way or another. Best wishes!

 

[Nawd]

That is sort of how I feel also! I'm from Missouri, and we had a serious cold snap yesterday. I had to go out to get the mail which is about a quarter mile walk. It was 10 degrees (F) and with the wind chill, well below zero. I never seemed to really warm up after that walk. The wind went right through my reliable winter coat and liner (with two sweaters on!!).

Scary because when I got the mail today, the sun was shining, it was a balmy 21 degrees and I felt pretty good. Sort of skipped around enjoying myself during the walk.

I'm still cold though, even though I dug out my silk long underwear (reserved for the coldest of days). It does help a little. I'll try the magnisum oil at night! It makes me itchy though, unless I put it only on my feet.

Oh and have you heard the news? More snow coming! I don't remember this much snow for this area in many years. It's like living in Northern Michigan again.

 

[Buddy]

Thanks for the tip about magnesium oil.

It's been getting really cold in the southeast U.S. also. My experience of 'cold to the bone' is usually associated with 'wet cold'. So far, I seem to take cold pretty easily between the 0 and 20 degree F mark, unless it's also damp, like from all the rain we've been getting. Or if I drink something cold. If I make that mistake, I can hang it up because I'll be shivering uncontrollably until I get in front of a serious heat source.

 

[Ellipse]

Hello The Water Bearer,

This is not normal to be cold like this if your home is heat up. Can be related to a poor blood circulation but a lot of other problems too. As usual, I will recommend to see an acupuncturist, a real and good one. Should not be a problem in Chicago I guess. You really should do it.

For now you can have feet bath with warm water.


Redfox,

Perhaps this is your nervous system which play trick to you. Not in an emotional way but more related to a sympathetic/para-sympathetic reaction.


To both, one thing you can do is to check your internal body temperature.

Moist air penetrates the body far more easily - and with it, the cold too. Especially the lungs are prone to painfull reactions from that.

So true. Moist must be absolutely avoid when it's possible.

 

[Maia]

Thank you Ellipse for your guidance, I will look into this more.

Our home is kept at around 70 F. My husband who exercises 6 days a week, for at least one hour is always hot and he is 66 with a aorta heart valve replacement.

As far as my normal body temp, I have always ran 97.2

I know this because whenever anyone takes my temp, they run and get another nurse or doctor and I tell them to calm down, it's only 1.4 degrees.

But I have always ran around 97.2.

Please no jokes about reptilians :P

My husband and doctor say that I do need to exercise more. When I do the treadmill for 35 minutes at 2.5 mph with an incline of 7 - it does warm me up for about two hours.

It seems I like to exercise my fingers (keyboarding) and my gray matter (reading) vs walking or using our elliptical machine.

I will look seriously into what you have listed though. :)

 

[HiThere]

Just want to chime in. I've been unusually cold as well for the last 2-3 months, and have started to wear a lot more clothing than earlier winters, even when the temperature isn't particularily low.

 

[Hildegarda]

I don't know if it is the contrast from the slightly warmer days, or something else.....but I can only remember once in my life ever feeling this cold, and I wasn't waring thermals at the time! I may be mistaken but their seems to be something about this cold that saps heat (through layers/walls) very quickly.

RedFox, I noticed that our house gets REALLY cold when the weather is changing. Even if it's actually getting warmer outside. Hopefully this is part of what's going on with you. You are right that -1C shouldn't be a big deal. Hope you feel better soon and figure out a way to beat the chills.

 

[monksgirl]

Just want to chime in. I've been unusually cold as well for the last 2-3 months, and have started to wear a lot more clothing than earlier winters, even when the temperature isn't particularily low.

same here, and I live in Texas, where it's not particularly cold in winter, but it is this week. The cold feet and hands started 2-3 months ago, and I have not had it for many years; had it kind of chronically when younger and thinner. Am also having a lot of problems over the same time with static electricity, even when the humidiity has been high. And we have had quite a bit of the chemtrail spraying.

 

[Renaissance]

Hey Redfox, interesting observation. I've actually wondered myself if there is some type of change in the effect of weather on people. I go outside to smoke and at the start of winter there was one day in particular that I felt the cold was going right through me - to the bone! I don't think I ever felt so cold. It felt like all my insides cramped up - just in the matter of minutes. I could barely move when I got inside and actually felt dizzy and sickly. The cold here in the North East of the US is pretty bad lately too.

During the summer someone had also mentioned to me that when it was really hot out that the sun felt different and there seemed less of a protective barrier. I agreed that it felt more intense, even if the temperature wasn't so different than past years. I think this could be something, particularly with all the changes in the atmosphere.

 

[mada85]

The last time I felt cold like you describe, RedFox, was about eleven years ago when I had gastric flu in the winter. My whole body felt damp and cold through and through, and I could not get warm, no matter what I tried, until I went for acupuncture. Within two minutes of starting the treatment my entire body was warm as toast from the tips of my toes to the top of my head. So I would agree with Ellipse that acupuncture could be very helpful to you, especially if this cold is caused by a health condition. Pipe breathing while in bed warms me up pretty quickly, and perhaps something like ginger tea or cinnamon would be helpful too. I once read that cinnamon raises the body temperature slightly, but I'm afraid I can't find the reference right now.