I know this sounds crazy, but since I started taking hormones I get cold very quickly. This recent cool weather (I'm in California) is driving me crazy. I'm always freezing in weather that used to call for shirtsleeves. I've got a dresser full of lingerie and I just got back from target with a bag full of sweats. Is this normal do you think.

Yes it is. Estrogen thins the skin, so you are going to get colder easier.  I got cold easily before but now it is pretty bad.

I have noticed the same thing, layers are my best friend! 

Hot flash, chills, comfy, chills, comfy, hot flash..... it never ends lol

I'm sure happy that I'm not crazy. Now anyone have any ideas how to be warm and not look like a frump.

scarves, gloves, sweaters, hats, earmuffs, knitted jackets etc.  flannel pajamas for bed...

I'm not like other people.  I get less cold now.

I have always been a "cold" person   Seriously, I'm freezing almost all the time, except on those hot summer nights of course!  >

tink

omg! you feel the same way too? I swear I feel just the same way as you do! I feel colder than females.

Here I am at work wearing jeans and a big ol sweater......and Im still freezing. I guess I should be happy that this seems to be my worst problem right now. Have a nice weekend all.

Quote from: Desire on November 08, 2007, 02:34:00 PM
I know this sounds crazy, but since I started taking hormones I get cold very quickly. This recent cool weather (I'm in California) is driving me crazy. I'm always freezing in weather that used to call for shirtsleeves. I've got a dresser full of lingerie and I just got back from target with a bag full of sweats. Is this normal do you think.

I'm cold too.  I'm done making fun of my mom for being cold all the time, now I understand.

Quote from: Tink on November 08, 2007, 07:15:23 PM
I have always been a "cold" person   Seriously, I'm freezing almost all the time, except on those hot summer nights of course!  >

tink

I'm going with Tink on this one haha.  My parents got sick of me always having the heater on so they bought me a little mini one, so needless to say that's on about %70 of the time in my room now   Anything below 75 is cold!

My mother's the same way. I'm the opposite. I've got two fans going and the window open in January. Still got all my estrogen though. It's in my blood. I've got a super thick hide. I was engineered to withstand Siberian winters.

Posted on: November 10, 2007, 12:56:54 AM

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Quote from: shanetastic on November 09, 2007, 12:20:45 PM

Quote from: Tink on November 08, 2007, 07:15:23 PM
I have always been a "cold" person   Seriously, I'm freezing almost all the time, except on those hot summer nights of course!  >

tink

I'm going with Tink on this one haha.  My parents got sick of me always having the heater on so they bought me a little mini one, so needless to say that's on about %70 of the time in my room now   Anything below 75 is cold!

Below 75? That's practically sweltering!

no. I'm hot all da time hehehehhe >

I HATE the cold hate hate hate hat it......

Sence starting HRT my tolerance for the cold has stayed about the same <0 tolerance> but I cant stand the same amount of heat anymore     I used to love it when it hit 110, now if it gets above 100 its too much...

For the winter its layers layers layers....  It kills my figure, but its better than freezing.

PS:  Its winter IMHO when the temp drops below 65.....

Posted on: November 10, 2007, 02:20:49 AM

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PPS:  I think I must be part snake because I cant function in the cold and love basking on hot rocks LoL

Quote from: Nero on November 09, 2007, 10:58:01 PM
My mother's the same way. I'm the opposite. I've got two fans going and the window open in January. Still got all my estrogen though. It's in my blood. I've got a super thick hide. I was engineered to withstand Siberian winters.

Posted on: November 10, 2007, 12:56:54 AM

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Quote from: shanetastic on November 09, 2007, 12:20:45 PM

Quote from: Tink on November 08, 2007, 07:15:23 PM
I have always been a "cold" person   Seriously, I'm freezing almost all the time, except on those hot summer nights of course!  >

tink

I'm going with Tink on this one haha.  My parents got sick of me always having the heater on so they bought me a little mini one, so needless to say that's on about %70 of the time in my room now   Anything below 75 is cold!

Below 75? That's practically sweltering!

Haha what can I say.  I love to be warm!!   I guess I could settle for 70. . . but that's the lowest!

I get cold so quickly now. I hate the cold. Brrrrr!

I'm glad that Cowtown's winters are mild, and not like Ontario/Montreal or anywhere back east. Sure, we get a few cold days, but with the chinooks -- a warm wind that comes along in the winter -- we get a lot of nice days. But, literally, here it's like this: Wear a parka today, and bundle up really good, but tomorrow you can wear a T-shirt or a light sweater. Some people don't like it because we don't get a lot of snow, and if we get snow, it melts within a week. Our Christmases are usually brown. Also, the warm/cold, warm/cold thing drives some people nuts. I'm used to it, so it doesn't bother me.

--natalie

Hi
I don't like winter and have never liked it from all the way back in my childhood. If it got bellow -10 C I just wouldn't go out if I didn't have to. I lived all over eastern US and Canada and the place I liked the best was Tennessee Now I live in (so far) good old Vancouver BC where I haven't seen the temp drop lower the 13 C and certainly not all the rain we were told, actually has been nice and sunny most of the time here. Anyway I don't have any gripes about BC weather. As for being cold back in Ontario it didn't mater how thick a coat and sweaters and whatever I never felt warm just bulky like the Michelin man. The strange thing is that my hands are always toasty warm.

Cindy 

I've always been cold, but I'm even colder now that I'm on HRT. I live in Toronto and it's getting very cold here, all I can do is wear a warm jacket and winter boots.

Hi Jessica

Have you heard of Midland Ontario? about thirty miles north of Barrie. That was where I lived for onto 9 years, the longest time I ever lived in my life outside the Homestead where I grew up which was in the Parry Sound area, another 60 miles north of Midland. I went to college in Sudbury, a hundred miles north of Parry Sound. Well anyway I think I outdid Stomping Tom as far as moving about both US and Canada.

Cindy

Brrrr, Toronto's cold Richmond Hill is colder and anything north of Newmarket is freezing. Barrie is so cold in winter, I think the Lake keeps Toronto sightly warmer, that and all the cars and pollution. If I had money I'd be in Brazil