SoCal Desert; it’s summer, it’s hot, it’s gonna be. Recent years West Mexican monsoonal storms come earlier. Not much rain makes it this far, but the humidity brings the temp down to maybe 108°, yuckier than 111° with single digit humidity.
Way past menopause, and Hashimoto’s (non-cancerous goiter), make it hard for me to feel hot BUT, also can’t sweat when I do. Now the temps here have been jumping from the 50’s F at night, back to 90’s F in the day. Lot’s of humidy.Please make up your mind weather.
I spent most of life too hot. Husband would get upset when I went out in midwinter with just a sweatshirt. House is set up to keep me cool and him warm as he was/is always cold. So the a/c is on my side of the bedroom, I have the kitchen chair in the path of a/c in our studio behind the kitchen, and so on.
When I went through menopause I would go back and forth between hot and cold – I would have a sweater halfway on and have to take it back off. Sometimes my left side was freezing and my right side sweating (or vice versa) and sometimes my head would be on fire while my body froze. We were with our reenactment unit at a St Patrick’s Day parade (we are partially funded by the local township, so we have to march in some town parades each year) and it was chilly out. I was wearing a full length 1770s reproduction wool cape as I was freezing. All of a sudden a hot spell hit me and I said (to no one) something like "oh, that’s nice and warm). I heard a laugh behind me and one of the fellows in our unit said to me when I turned around – “sounds like my wife”.
Now I am FREEZING all the time. I had figured if one is cold, just put on a sweater (or in my case, technically sweatshirt) to stay warm. I found out the hard way if it 85F and one puts on a sweatshirt to stay warm, ,one will get heat stroke. Husband has a rule in the house. If don’t feel cold and it spring, summer or early fall, I am to put on the a/c until I am so I don’t get sick from hot weather.
Michael G. about 3 years ago
Yoo hoo! Patty?
St. Pillsbury about 3 years ago
With 30% of women in the world reaching menopause, we now have the answer to Global Warming! Eat your heart out Al Gore!
tcumming about 3 years ago
Ya saying Mother Earth is going through the change o life?
MuddyUSA Premium Member about 3 years ago
I am told some women get me expose early in life?
j.l.farmer about 3 years ago
i still feel the effect at times of menopause 25 years later; still can’t wear a turtleneck top.
pbr50138 about 3 years ago
I know that the older I get, the hotter the summers seem.
ChukLitl Premium Member about 3 years ago
SoCal Desert; it’s summer, it’s hot, it’s gonna be. Recent years West Mexican monsoonal storms come earlier. Not much rain makes it this far, but the humidity brings the temp down to maybe 108°, yuckier than 111° with single digit humidity.
BJIllistrated Premium Member about 3 years ago
Our heat wave here in OR/WA last week was an eye opener to what global warming might bring. PLEASE MAKE IT STOP!
christelisbetty about 3 years ago
Way past menopause, and Hashimoto’s (non-cancerous goiter), make it hard for me to feel hot BUT, also can’t sweat when I do. Now the temps here have been jumping from the 50’s F at night, back to 90’s F in the day. Lot’s of humidy.Please make up your mind weather.
PuppyPapa about 3 years ago
We had two days of a heat wave here in lower New England last week — other than that, June and July have been cold and rainy!
58 degrees at 11 am in NE CT.
mafastore about 3 years ago
I spent most of life too hot. Husband would get upset when I went out in midwinter with just a sweatshirt. House is set up to keep me cool and him warm as he was/is always cold. So the a/c is on my side of the bedroom, I have the kitchen chair in the path of a/c in our studio behind the kitchen, and so on.
When I went through menopause I would go back and forth between hot and cold – I would have a sweater halfway on and have to take it back off. Sometimes my left side was freezing and my right side sweating (or vice versa) and sometimes my head would be on fire while my body froze. We were with our reenactment unit at a St Patrick’s Day parade (we are partially funded by the local township, so we have to march in some town parades each year) and it was chilly out. I was wearing a full length 1770s reproduction wool cape as I was freezing. All of a sudden a hot spell hit me and I said (to no one) something like "oh, that’s nice and warm). I heard a laugh behind me and one of the fellows in our unit said to me when I turned around – “sounds like my wife”.
Now I am FREEZING all the time. I had figured if one is cold, just put on a sweater (or in my case, technically sweatshirt) to stay warm. I found out the hard way if it 85F and one puts on a sweatshirt to stay warm, ,one will get heat stroke. Husband has a rule in the house. If don’t feel cold and it spring, summer or early fall, I am to put on the a/c until I am so I don’t get sick from hot weather.
bhopal39 about 3 years ago
It’s not global whatever now…just a hot summer.