#*opossum temperatures (by which I mean in the high 96 degree range. nearly two whole degrees lower than my usual)

[tj-crochets]

Hey y’all! I have a couple weird blood-pressure-related questions, both for people with low blood pressure issues and people without

I already know from previous questions y’all have helped me with (and doctor reactions) that it’s extremely weird that my allergic reactions first raise my blood pressure for several hours before crashing my blood pressure, so I’m just leaving that out for these questions 1. Do you ever find allergic reactions affect your circulation? Specifically, making your hands and feet extremely cold?  2. Do you ever find if you are having unusually high blood pressure readings (if prone to low blood pressure), that it happens when your hands and feet are very cold? 3. Does your ability to produce body heat ever, like...stop working? Like you have a blanket over you but it just will not warm up at all, wake up in the middle of the night because even though you’ve got three blankets still over you and it’s 70 degrees inside the house you’re freezing and the bed just will not warm up? I’ve gotten around this by making myself a hot water bottle on days when I can’t warm up, but like, that’s weird, right? these questions brought to you by today’s Weird Medical Thing, where I appear to be having a mild allergic reaction but my fingers are so cold the thermometer* can’t read them and my toes are so cold they ache. I am wearing slippers, have two layers of blankets over me, and it’s 72 degrees in my house. This is absurd.  *sometimes when I feel cold I take my temperature to see if I actually am cold enough to have dropped my body temp (get a hot water bottle time) or am just feeling cold (put on a hoodie time)

#the person behind the yarn #medical mention #allergy mention #blood pressure mention #(I know that's covered by the medical mention but blood pressure squicks out my sister so it gets a separate tag) #(because if saying blood pressure too many times in a conversation makes her queasy I'm sure she's not the only one in the world) #for the record I do sometimes also have moments of feeling overly warm in a not-that-warm room #it's just that they almost always happen as my blood pressure is dropping #and I am pretty sure it's a 'blood vessels near the skin dilating to try to dissipate heat' thing #heating the air near my skin (like how a wetsuit warms the layer of air near your body? maybe? I am fuzzy on this part) #because A. the dilation of the blood vessels near my skin is sometimes visible (like in movies when poison is shown #as like dark lines spreading from the heart? but instead of dark it's greenish blue) #and B. if there is moving air at all (a fan a breeze anything like that) I am immediately no longer feel like I'm overheating #it's very weird because when it happens I FEEL very hot but my actual skin is cold and my temperature can drop down to possum temperatures #*opossum temperatures (by which I mean in the high 96 degree range. nearly two whole degrees lower than my usual)