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Hormones And Sensitivity To Temperature


Sally

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Throughout my life I have suffered from the heat and loved cold weather - not good, I live in Texas.

Almost every woman that I have know who wasn't actually having a hot flash at that precise moment has suffered from the cold and always controlled the room temperature.

My question is have any of you noticed a change in your sensitivity to changes in temperature?

Does it take a higher temperature to make you feel hot?

Are you feeling the cold more or is that just something that women do to get attention (along with wearing practically no clothes)?

Love ya,

Sally

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Guest StrandedOutThere

Sally, I'm heading in the other direction, but I can definitely say that my perception of temperature has changed. Now, when girls are over, they ask why we've got the house so cold. I'll be cleaning up the kitchen sometimes and start dripping sweat. When I go to look at the thermostat, I see that it is only like 74 or 75 in the house. Looking at me, you'd think it was 95. I used to not be quite so much that way.

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Guest Elizabeth K

Double information here.

My wife keeps the house at 72 and is a hot box. She is perfect to take on camping trips in the winter is she warms up the sleeping bag like a heater. She is on Primarin - had a historectomy 25 years ago - blames her hot nature on her hormones.

Me? I would keep the house on 78 - can walk three miles in 100 degree heat and it doesn't bother me. I am on Estradoil - I blame it on my hormones.

BUT I lost 32 pounds. My wife is larger.

I think it has to do more with body mass. And I wear shorts and sandals . She won't wear shorts or sandals [hates her legs].

So who knows.

I know I tolerate heat better now on HRT. I get cold and wear a sweater in most restaurants - what a wusss

Lizzy

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Guest Leigh
Are you feeling the cold more or is that just something that women do to get attention (along with wearing practically no clothes)?

lol...Sally.

now, i'm not on HRT...nor am i a woman.

but i can assure you, the sensitivity to cold thing is real...it's pretty much a sign of hormone fluctuations...ie, when a woman is menstruating she's more sensitive to cold...

it is quite possible that you could feel temperature differently on HRT..i just hope that doesn't meant that i'll like cold weather better, since i'll finally be moving to a hot place!

peace&love

leigh

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Well I can tell you for a fact that body mass has little to do with it for me, I was underweight and anemic for years and suffered with the heat so I am pretty much just grasping at straws!

And just on a personal note 78 degrees!

What age do people start keeping their homes at the same temperature as their age, is it 80?

Love ya,

Sally

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Guest Donna Jean

Yep!

I like the heat WAY better anymore!

Last winter around here we had a month where 2 1/2 weeks we were below 0.....Not 32.....0..

As low as -22 below zero and I almost died!

I go out and work in the sun anymore in my shorts and sleeveless top and I just LOVE it!

It's since I started HRT....so that may be it!

Heat.....YAY!

Cold......BOO!

Donna Jean

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Guest Evan_J

I was the quintessential "I'm cold", "aren't you cold?", "isn't it cold in here?"person. While I still don't like (mentally) the cold I am honestly not as likely to actually BE cold. I admit (though not in front of a lot of people :P ) to even having the thought "christ, is it hot in here?" Whereas prior double shirts -even double pants- was "nothing" to me. I attribute it to the more testosterone =more red blood cells change in physiology. Conversely, if you're losin your testosterone (on spiro) then yes, you would be more comfortable if it were warmer.

As for the "women looking for attention wearing no clothes" thing? To be fair and honest about it womens clothing is MADE to be thinner, shearer in density, and more "exposing" on purpose and its not by the women. Its a sore point with me and one that I do "soapbox" over on their behalf. Even a woman who WANTED to be so covered it was pathetic would be hard pressed to garments made for women that if nothing else were not 1/3 the heaviness in construction as a mans garment. Find any woman's suit pants and a pair of men's suit pants and you will know everything I' mean.

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Guest AllisonD

I'm on Premarin, been on it for decades, and I am almost always cold. Donna will be complaining at me to open the windows and "How could you need a blanket!?!" but I can't seem to warm up.

I leave work early to go swimming and I have the windows up in my car, out there baking in the parking lot, just so when I get in I can finally go Ahhhhhhh! The heat!

We like to vacation in the Keys and I never get too warm. Donna will fuss with the A/C until I am driven out of the house. Here in Ct we constantly fight over the thermostat, she is always turning it down. We have a huge sunroom in Ct with floor to ceiling glass on 3 sides, plus a skylight and stained glass popeye window. It can be like an oven in there if you don't open the windows (they all open, every one, except the stained glass) and I go out there just to 'thaw out'.

We did a year's TDY in Tucson. I finally felt warm in Tucson. 120 in the shade is warm for anyone. I loved it, Donna nearly expired from the heat. She had heatstroke twice, and I was watching her and handing her water bottles the whole time.

Maybe its the premarin. Maybe its just me. It isn't my weight (I'm overweight but so is Donna. In fact I blame her -shame on me). She's had a hysterectomy (at about 25 years old). So I don't know how to assess the clues as to why I need it warmer that she does.

Allison

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As for the "women looking for attention wearing no clothes" thing? To be fair and honest about it womens clothing is MADE to be thinner, shearer in density, and more "exposing" on purpose and its not by the women. Its a sore point with me and one that I do "soapbox" over on their behalf. Even a woman who WANTED to be so covered it was pathetic would be hard pressed to garments made for women that if nothing else were not 1/3 the heaviness in construction as a mans garment. Find any woman's suit pants and a pair of men's suit pants and you will know everything I' mean.

I know about the difference in weight of women's clothing and right now, I lve it - but that being said as the 'guy' in the wool blend tuxedo working wither playing or photographing an event seing the woman out there in strapless, knee length basically beaded sundresses and complaining of the cold git on my nerves.

We have a wife of one of the band members in my jaxx band who comes to every rehearsal always wearing sandals and usually sleeveless tops who goes over and turns off the air while the rest of us are working and already sweating while she just sits - I think that it is the thought that I can't take my clothes off but she could put on another layer that I have found so irratating.

Love ya,

Sally

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Guest Evan_J
She's had a hysterectomy (at about 25 years old). So I don't know how to assess the clues as to why I need it warmer that she does.

But see, that actually would go along with my theory :) She had a hysto. -Thats called "surgically induced menopause" by medical personnel. Her estrogen is dropped and the main supplier of estrogen is dropped. Although her T levels are not as high as a FtM on T, they are higher than a pre menopausal woman "in full bloom" if you will. A Tgirl on hrt is "in full bloom" , her hormone levels are monitored to mirror the premenopausal woman. :)

Leo, I was like you. You still will likely tolerate the heat pretty good. (Thats just due to our ethnicity, check out anthropology, its interesting.) But you won't be nearly as cold.

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Guest Zabrak

YES!

I'm always warm now. Not overheating warm(rather then..well Evan knows) but I'm warm. I wear short sleeved shirts in the rain and I'm just fine. Before I'd freeze to death if I went outside without a thick sweater over top of three shirts.

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But see, that actually would go along with my theory :) She had a hysto. -Thats called "surgically induced menopause" by medical personnel. Her estrogen is dropped and the main supplier of estrogen is dropped. Although her T levels are not as high as a FtM on T, they are higher than a pre menopausal woman "in full bloom" if you will. A Tgirl on hrt is "in full bloom" , her hormone levels are monitored to mirror the premenopausal woman. :)

Leo, I was like you. You still will likely tolerate the heat pretty good. (Thats just due to our ethnicity, check out anthropology, its interesting.) But you won't be nearly as cold.

AHA! I finally understand yet another facet of my Donna. Thanks so much Evan!

Allison

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We have a wife of one of the band members in my jaxx band who comes to every rehearsal always wearing sandals and usually sleeveless tops who goes over and turns off the air while the rest of us are working and already sweating while she just sits - I think that it is the thought that I can't take my clothes off but she could put on another layer that I have found so irratating.

Love ya,

Sally

Yeah...now that sounds annoying.

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I do have to say the cold never really bothered me before transition but now wow, this past winter i kept a bunch of his sweatshirts and sweatpants and wore them all the time while at home, now that it's warmer i do sweat allot but i am still cold at times.

Paula

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Guest Elizabeth K

I always said men dress for winter, women dress for summer.

I love flowing,open skirts, a halter top, and a pair of skimpy sandals in the summer - cool as it gets! In the winter, only the security of panty hose is a life saver! Women's suits are useless for comfort in the winter! Pants are too thin! Only because we can pile on sweaters and such do we survive!

And longer hair? When I was male - longer hair was HOT! Now my longer hair is no problem in the summer - just sweep it up or ponytail it! I guess HRT is a factor! I sleep under a down comforter all year long. I know - I know - turn the AC up! My wife wants it lower, she is post menapause - my feet freeze!

Talk about your turn-a-round!

Lizzy

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