For years I've been unable to deal with the heat. I am a 36 yr old female, very fair skin and of normal weight. This isn't a new problem, it started happening as a child. It doesn't seem to matter what I am doing, but I have to stop and go inside or find some A/C or I feel like I might pass out or vomit. This can even happen just after I get out of a hot shower... sometimes when I start to dry my hair I will get tunnel vision and have to lay down for a few minutes. Doctors don't seem too concerned but it really bothers me, I'd like to be able to go outside and work like most other people. I know my siblings are also sensitive to heat, but maybe not to the extreme that I am.
My thyroid was checked a couple years ago for other reasons and it was fine. Is there a medical condition that can cause this.. do other people feel like I do? Is there anything I can do to correct it?
2006-07-01 08:07:01 · 8 answers · asked by cxgirlnextdoor 1 in Health ➔ General Health Care ➔ Other - General Health Care
think about moving to alaska?...i live in tucson AZ and i like it
2006-07-12 20:49:18 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have had an intolerance to heat all my life. I am 48 and overweight now which doesn't help but it was the same when I was a normal (!) size. I get prickly heat and then headaches and vomiting if I am in temperatures above 30 degrees. When I have asked for help, I get the reply that everyone is hot etc. My thyroid has been checked a few times and that is all working OK. So my rules are a revolving fan at work, loose clothing, underwear that fits ( I almost passed out in a heat wave and found out my bra was hopelessly too small!), a Spanish type fan in my handbag, a bottle of water, cool spray and also vitamin C is meant to help. Good luck :-)
2006-07-04 10:09:33 · answer #2 · answered by Fairylady 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is suggestive of heat stroke or heat exhaustion from childhood... or it could be caused by sympathetic override which results in reduction in the ability in the body to disapate heat from the surface... But tunnel vision relates to yet another problem even tho assiosiated with you symptoms.. this could account for the distortion of the autonomic nervous system.... which is easy to check just by looking at the pupil of the eye... if they are constricted or dialated is indicative of the problem... is something that a chiropractor is well equiped to handle... as you have found out that medicine doesn't seem to help..
2006-07-13 14:35:51 · answer #3 · answered by mrcricket1932 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
this is so totally me. i live on Lake Superior for this reason--fled my hometown during a heat wave and never looked back. i have to tell you, finding a better climate has worked wonders for my productivity, lifestyle, happiness... and i run into all kinds of people up here who have the same issues with heat. some people are just made that way, i think.
if you insist on living in a hot place, then i don't know what to say to you except learn all the ways cultures that live in heat deal with it: stay out of the sun in the heat of the day, "siesta" during the afternoon, drink a lot of cool, non-sugared drinks, eat light, dress light, and suffer.
2006-07-01 15:16:13 · answer #4 · answered by jezebelring 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
theres nothing wrong with you except the mills and plants and foundries that pollute us everyday and noone does a damn thing about it because people are to tired fighting big bussiness that have unlimited money to hire laywers to defend them and there is no chance of ever change in the ****** up society that we live
2006-07-11 20:11:25 · answer #5 · answered by samziggymeyer 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I feel like this when I am dehydrated. But you could have orthostatic hypotension or even low sodium levels or low glucose levels.
2006-07-01 15:12:39 · answer #6 · answered by serenitynow 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You were probably burned to death in a previous life.
2006-07-13 22:37:02 · answer #7 · answered by owllady 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
GO TO THE DOCTOR!!!!!
2006-07-14 14:36:54 · answer #8 · answered by kimberleibenton 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋