On symptoms list for both fibromyalgia (FMS) and chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS or ME/CFS) is temperature sensitivity. What exactly does that mean, though?
It's a stereotype that women are always cold, but in the forum here, it seems to be a very accurate stereotype -- no one seems able to warm up.
I recently wrote about how I reflect the temperature: when it's hot, I can't cool down; when it's cold, I can't warm up. I spend summer evenings soaking my feet in the coldest water I can stand and the winters pre-warming my slippers because my feet are too cold to do it on their own. (And this from someone who used to wear slip-on shoes all winter because socks were too hot! These conditions change everything, don't they?)
Do you run hot, cold, or both? Does the temperature around you cause changes in your body, or are you always to one extreme? Take the poll, and share your warming up/cooling down tips here or in About.com's Fibromyalgia & Chronic Fatigue Syndrome forum.
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I couldn’t have said it better myself!