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i have had always a morning body temperature of 95.9 and it goes up to 97.1 and at night sometimes 98.2 but always starts going down late at night back to 96.7 or lower back to 95.9. I have had many test for thyroid and all the test for diseases that cause low body temperature. The reason im posting is that I have read so many disagreeing articles about temperature. Some say its normal 95.0 to 100.0 varying during the day and others say that 98.6 is the standard and it doesn't vary to much from that either way..So do I have temperature when I have 98.2
Can I ask why you are measuring your body temperature. This is not something one would normally do if you are not ill with something like a fever. To moniter the body in such a way will throw up strange results all the time that wouldn't be a problem if it wasn't being scrutinized.
Can I ask why you are measuring your body temperature. This is not something one would normally do if you are not ill with something like a fever. To moniter the body in such a way will throw up strange results all the time that wouldn't be a problem if it wasn't being scrutinized.
I have to agree with PanchoGoz.
If you check your temp religiously - daily, mornings and evenings, etc. you will literally fixate on every little variation, and the bottom line is, if your temperature is not sky high, and you feel perfectly ok, and have no sign of infection or illness, then you are perfectly fine, and really have no need to keep checking. 98.2 is around 36/37 - totally normal.
Monitoring IMO, in any way, shape or form (especially using equipment) does not help a health anxiety one little bit. All it does is make you freak out when there is any kind of change...even the smallest. The rule of thumb should be how you actually FEEL, not what a machine says.
Unless there is a reason why you need to monitor - something like high BP, or blood sugars - then I wouldn't add fuel to an anxious fire by doing so.
Reason: checking on possible strep throat coming back as it caused tachoycardia also high bp also sugar levels. I have cancer to stasrt with ,thanks for your support you are both so kind.
Perhaps the cancer is fuelling your health anxiety then. It must have been a big shock for you and you are scared of another shock? Perhaps the body is a little run down due to it and your stats are fluctuating?
Still, it doesn't seem that checking temperature is beneficial in this situation unless the doctor has said to check at certain times in the day.
It's hard when you don't feel in control of your body and your health, but I think in this situation you will have to learn to let it do it's thing on it's own. You might want to draw up some rules about what's necessary to look out for, for your health, and what is adversely a compulsion caused by health anxiety.
One thing to go by is that if you are having to google things about your health, then you are not leaving your health to the knowlege of the doctor as you should be and stepping out of your medical territory. If you can drop habits to do with controlling your health then you can take a weight off yourself and feel more relaxed. It's very draining to be constantly on the lookout and this makes it harder for you to get by and recover, from anxiety or anything!
Just got back from the doctor..just this moment and he said checking temp was ok. He said that it is a good thing to be deligent to know whether to expect trouble . He also said that the temp at 95.9 to 100.0 is ok but anything higher than that I might expect tachycardia. He said to keep doing whatever I was doing and he was going to line me up for full work up in the following weeks comparing specialized test other than test that was in the hospital and also said that their test were vague to say the least and anything I could do to monitor my body was a good thing. He is aware of my health anxiety but knowing what he knows says I have every right to monitor my health and the more I can learn about my condition the better. He likes people that take charge of their own health. As far as looking things up on the internet. I have been doing that since the beginning of the internet . I hate medical things ,and I do look things up that pertain to my illness.. Im not sure where you are going with this...other than yes I do have health anxiety..if you had cancer would you monitor if you were having fever in case your heart went 150 to 170 and wouldn't slow down when you get a sore throat..I think you would be peeing in your pants.. if you want to know what i think.I also was just curious about what certain people think about body temps and was curious what people on here have heard about it. My doctor said today .. 95.9 was normal in the morning and 98.2 was normal for evening, so no more need for me to ask people in here. He is 40 years internist and specialist and knows..so why bother asking anyone here..im sure there isn't anyone else here that has that kind of background.. thank you
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PS nobody ever answered my question and another thing..I hate looking up things on the internet that concern health..you are right..it is very very hard especially when you know what you have..and finding things that terrify you .. you pray every night that God take you from this life.. its torture knowing you are slipping away everyday but you do the best you can to get by
Hi again,
Actually, I am no doctor, but I am a former nurse of 10 years service, hence why I answered your question re. your temperature.
I hold my hands up to admitting that I made a wrong assumption that you were checking your temp without good reason - many HA folk do, and I still stand by my initial belief that this is not helpful to them - but since you did not disclose in your initial post that you had a serious diagnosed illness and a good reason and medical history to check, I don't feel it is unreasonable that this assumption was made on what is a HA heavy site lately. The responses came from a rational stand point, not an accusatory one. I suffer from GAD myself. I have moments with HA and being a nurse for years did me no favours at all, as the knowledge I gained is not power.....it just makes me self-diagnose, and I hate it, but I do still have a modicum of rationality when it comes to symptoms, and I do feel that many members here have serious HA, and if I can answer in a relatively rational way for them, to at least try to allay their fears, or answer a query, then I will.
I am truly sorry for your situation and I wish you the best.
Its ok...really...I completely understand and also understand that you both were trying to help. My nurse and I were laughing today because I still freak out after blood pressure test although i have them all the time.. and she was laughing saying that doctors and nurses make the worse patients as they also have white coat syndrome or at least some of them. But thanks for writing and to the other person that wrote to. I know it was only in effort to make me feel better. Thank you for your comments.
Seems like you have a few things your worried about. Saw a few posts from you. Maybe a visit to your doctor isn't a horrible idea
Just went to the doctor today and see him usually three times a month or more. Sometimes I can ask certain things but like today I didn't have time to ask all I wanted to . Thank you for commenting.
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Also sometimes the doctor doesn't give me the exact answer that im asking and I feel stupid asking again because in his mind he has already answered. Like I ask him about tachycardia his answer was you are doing everything you can for it.. and if it happens again then you need to go back to the hospital. he didn't say oh the medicine you are taking will take care of it.. I don't know.. and then he depends on me to go to a therapist i guess for the anxiety and an eye doctor because of my eyes but then I have a fear of tachycardia happening so im scared to go to the therapist or the eye doctor so im trying to work past that but not working to well. As for the thing about the bathroom.. well there are just so many things you can do for that..so well that is why I posted what i did in questions on here to see if others experience issues.. maybe just for comfort or maybe just reassurance thats all..
Catherine S
17-12-14, 21:02
Why didn't you mention the strep throat and your cancer in your opening post? Those two things would surely effect your body temperature. Also, generally speaking, British people don't usually take their temperature themselves, maybe their children's yes but not normally as adults at home...we might obssess about other things like blood pressure or what comes out of our rear ends but never our temperature, so that eliminates about 70% of possible replies straight away! I wouldn't even know what a normal temperature should be sorry.
ISB x
So i still believe...is that not taking your own temp a genetic thing? I was just wondering because I a have British and I take my temp to make sure its not high just in case I need to haul it to the ER.. Its funny I have been on this board off and on since 2005 and well.. I think I have read many many people that were British and well they had a temp fetish.. check your searches and see if I am correct if not I aplogize...wonder why if im British why I didn't get the anti temp thing..hmmm guess its because ..oh yeah im American although my family still lives and flourishes there in the UK.. Anyway thanks for your input ,have a nice day..
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My post messed up at the top ..it is suppose to read ..im half British..
Hi again,
I think this thread has got very confused by the fact that your cancer was not mentioned in your original post, mnaha.
This would have explained things, and why you check and are worried.
I apologised to you about questioning why you take your temp so often as I totally understand now why you do.
I am assuming that having cancer, you have or are taking medications to treat it, perhaps? Chemo will affect your white cell count/neutrophils, which leaves you open to infection, hence the temp checking. I used to care for kids with cancer - specifically leukaemia. Most had electronic thermometers at home, and would regularly check their temps, but particularly if they were feeling a bit unwell. So I get why you check your temp.
The only thing I would say though, is perhaps checking has become a little excessive for you? You must have been scared by having been unwell before, and it has obviously left its mark. I am not surprised that you worry though, as you have very good cause.
Just wanted to assure you that I understand why you check, in the context of your illness.
What Debs says ^^
Also all the people on this board have anxiety, and with people with health anxiety, they often check their temperatures out of fear or obsession - so that's why there are a lot of posts suggesting that. Normally adults don't have a reason to check their temperatures at all unless suggested by a doctor.
Catherine S
02-01-15, 23:31
I did check the boards and nope...it seems mostly to be people who live in America who do these things for themselves and try to self-diagnose...and that is people who live in America not just American people, but that could be because y'all have to pay so much to visit the doctor and for tests, whereas as you know, if we in the UK have a medical problem we can go to the doc anytime and get checked without worrying about having to pay extra.
But to go back to your origional question...yes your temperature would probably be higher than normal with the condition you are currently being treated for, and I noticed that whilst having a go at me for my reply, you didn't apologise to any of the people who replied to you for not letting us know about your cancer. How can we be expected to give you advice when we don't know the whole story? I've thankfully never had to face cancer and hope I never will have to, so I don't know how to advise you, but other members perhaps can if they have had the same experience. I can only wish you well in 2015.
ISB x
i have had always a morning body temperature of 95.9 and it goes up to 97.1 and at night sometimes 98.2 but always starts going down late at night back to 96.7 or lower back to 95.9. I have had many test for thyroid and all the test for diseases that cause low body temperature. The reason im posting is that I have read so many disagreeing articles about temperature. Some say its normal 95.0 to 100.0 varying during the day and others say that 98.6 is the standard and it doesn't vary to much from that either way..So do I have temperature when I have 98.2
Just wondered what all the fuss was about.. actually if you read the orginal post. all I wanted to know is what everyone thought was the actual normal temp for someone since there is a lot of disagreement online about it.It was basically just a question about what everybody thought.. not why or if i was obsessing. geez...just don't understand the attacks from a innocent question. oh well.thanks for replies and "i still believe" said I should aplogize for not telling everyone I had cancer or strep throat..which I see has no reason to be mentioned in original question..???
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Oh and by the way "i still believe" I have medicaid so I don't pay anything either..all my medical,dental,mental ,hospital etc..is free.. so there you go.. no worries there..
From our perspective, we have a right not to answer your question directly as we are trying to help you with your anxiety...on this anxiety board...therefore we are allowed to wriggle round your thoughts somewhat ;)
I think this topic has deviated from both the original question and the issue of anxiety so I'll butt out.
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