Ok so I need to know if I am alone on this one. So tonight I go to take my shower and I have one of those single temp thingy's...lol. But anyways I am turning towards hot and nope still not right so I kept turning it well I finally couldnt turn it anymore. So I am standing there like damn hunnie the hot water heater isnt working right. So I get in the shower that feels cold to me and I am taking my shower, and my husband comes in. Which he tends to do often and take a shower with me, (but thats ok I get a shower back massage the best one). But anyways back to this, he goes to get in the shower with me, I am standing there with goose bumps and freezing skin is cold and all. He goes holly sh!t hun that water is way to hot. I said that water is cold. Well he didnt want to hear it and I said its not hot enough I am freezing. Given my body temp is 96.0 normal. But does this make me cold blooded or what. When I go outside and bake in the sun and humidity I die its way to hot, but when I go to take a hot shower I cant seem to get it hot enough and run out of turning power in the shower..lol.

It may also have to do with the time of day that you take the shower.

My temperature is always low in the morning, and sometimes at night.

Probably a hypothalamus related issue.

Don't feel too weird though. When I was a teenager I was still having exercise induced hives. My body would get WAY overheated and then all of a sudden wake up and realize the problem, so it would then send me into hypothermia. One time I walked quickly to class from one end of high school to the other and then up a flight of stairs. By the time I got to class I was covered in hives and way too hot. By the time I got down to the health office, my temperature had dropped to 92.7 degrees! The school nurse didn't believe it. She took my temp multiple times on different thermometers. I was shaking uncontrollably. She started freaking out and saying "Should I call 911?" I calmly said: "Call my mother to come get me. Get me a lot of water and a blanket. I'll be okay." And yes, eventually I was fine once again.

LOL this one tickles me--as I have ALWAYS cursed at and thrown thermometers since they don't seem to EVER say what I think they should. My normal body temp is usually low--often I feel very feverish/sick and have no temp. BUT--on a few occasions my temp HAS spiked in response to --recently for example-- sulfa drugs.

I am often very cold for no reason--have the dickens keeping shower water the right temp as well--but also can't stand heat either. My poor hubby suffers with this--blankets are all over the place--the thermostat on the A/c unit is worn out from constantly moving it up--then down--then up again. Normally I don't sweat--but at times I break out in rivers of it during sleep for no reason.

I just figure it's another "automatic" thing that has a sticky on/off switch. This is the way I've come to see it.

Everything my body is "supposed" to do automatically it sometimes doesn't--then over does on the flip side to make up for it.

Temperature is just one of the more obvious ones--and the fact that sometimes I forget to breathe and run out of air talking--and of course the BP/Pulse thing. The oddest one I have is that my salava continues to pour from inside my cheeks for about an hour after I eat.

And if I go into a dark place then into bright sun I can't see or judge distance for about 30 minutes to an hour til my pupils decide to kick in.

This is why my signature line says, "I believe you!" Cause my body does 17 impossible things before I finish my morning cup of coffee!

But this group HAS helped--I now understand what this is--why this is--have talked to others with the same troubles--and now it's actually funny at times.

Thing that's helped is I now have come to know my body WILL--eventually--kick in. Problem is that's usually about the same time you're hitting the door of an ER someplace--the sort of thing that gets you a fast rep for being nuts.

Oh well--I've been called worse!

My body temp is normally 96 and it was always so frustrating because if I got a temp of 99, then I knew it was a fever but the docs would say it wasn't high enough.

Almost immediately after my symptoms started, I noticed that I could not stand hot water. I used to love hot showers and now its lukewarm.

And I've noticed that when I am exercising and should be sweating, I actually get cold, shivers, goosebumps, etc, instead. It was so bad that the PT gave me a heating pad to hold while exercising and now I wear sweats and bring sweatshirt (this is vegas!).

The PT said its because my core (heart/brain) need oxygen and the blood is going to the core so my extremities are not getting enough warm blood...therefore I get cold. Made sense to me - make sense to everyone else or is there a better reason?

btw - my qsart came back normal in May.