Too Darned Hot!

JuliaHod12
JuliaHod12 Member Posts: 456
edited 24. Oct 2012, 01:45 in Living with Arthritis archive
Hi everyone

I am constantly feeling too blimmin hot and am not sure what's causing it!

Before my TKR on 24 July i was always feeling the cold, but now have the opposite issue!
I have an office job where we have Ar Conditioning, and i have been sitting in the office with a sleeveless blouse on each day for ages...........yet the others in the office are wearing cardigans or jackets!

I hope it's just me being peculiar! :lol:

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  • frogmorton
    frogmorton Member Posts: 30,342
    edited 30. Nov -0001, 00:00
    How odd Julia :?

    Hopefully it's your painkillers or something and will settle in time??? Have you checked your temperature incase you aren't 100% well?

    If not I can only think of one thing :shock: and you must be too young for that :shock:

    Love

    Toni xxx
  • JuliaHod12
    JuliaHod12 Member Posts: 456
    edited 30. Nov -0001, 00:00
    Hi Toni

    well i've been thinking maybe an infection, either that or my thyroid level might not be quite right! :roll:
    am due to see doc next monday.........but am a little concerned as its been going on a while now :?
    and as for the other thing............yes i am that old..........and sadly been there done that.........hysterectomy at 37.........and am now 52!
  • stickywicket
    stickywicket Member Posts: 27,764
    edited 30. Nov -0001, 00:00
    I seem to remember a thread not long ago in which someone was wondering if a TKR was causing them to feel cold rather than hot. I've never found a prosthesis made any difference. I think we just tend to look for a likely culprit timewise. I know nothing of thyroid problems but, if that might be a cause, maybe best to get it checked out.
    If at first you don't succeed, then skydiving definitely isn't for you.
    Steven Wright
  • Helenbothknees
    Helenbothknees Member Posts: 487
    edited 30. Nov -0001, 00:00
    I think I started the thread wondering if my TKR had made me cold. I'm now wondering if major surgery simply messes up your temperature regulating mechanism at least for a while. I still tend to feel very cold, but it's gradually improving....at about the same rate as the pain in my knees, interestingly enough. Seems to suggest a connection. If I'm right, hang in there Julia, and hopefully we'll both heal all over in time. But of course get it checked out too.
  • dreamdaisy
    dreamdaisy Member Posts: 31,520
    edited 30. Nov -0001, 00:00
    I'm sitting on my sofa with sweat pouring down my face (and elsewhere). I would love to feel cold because I'm sure that is more easily remedied than the opposite. I think pain is my chief culprit and if my Ma wasn't here I would now be standing in the back garden, arms raised to the heavens with only a very large bath towel wrapped round my sylph-like form (but I'm not 'cos my mum is here and I can't handle the nagging). I've been hot pre-menopause, during menopause and now very definitely post-menopause. Your comrade in drippines, DD.
    Have you got the despatches? No, I always walk like this. Eddie Braben
  • applerose
    applerose Member Posts: 3,621
    edited 30. Nov -0001, 00:00
    I started feeling hot when RA set in. I did ask my health centre nurse about it. She thought it was hot flushes (as I have reached menopause) but my rheumie said it was arther. It's the inflammation and increased blood flow which causes it for me. Definitely get it checked out though. Something is causing it and you need to know what.
    Christine
  • frogmorton
    frogmorton Member Posts: 30,342
    edited 30. Nov -0001, 00:00
    Ah well so it's not 'that' then Julia.

    I tend to agree with the others - maybe it is worth getting thyroid checked out?

    Love

    Toni xx
  • JuliaHod12
    JuliaHod12 Member Posts: 456
    edited 30. Nov -0001, 00:00
    well the doc isnt sure whats going on...............so ive had fresh blood tests;

    Bone profile
    Glycaclic Haemoglobin

    lets see what they show up! :-(

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