Women feeling cold

[Chessman]

I was just wondering, now the winters starting to set in, why do women generally feel the cold more than men?. My wife, bless her, has the heating on, and she wears a fleece, while I suffocate, and in bed, apart from bedclothes, has a thick duvet, plus an overblanket, but my observations tell me that as already said, women in general feel the cold more, WHY?. I know this question was asked last year, but I feel it needs a second airing.

[Mistopheles]

Couple of reasons - firstly our skin is much thinner (yes, really) so it doesn't protect us as well. We are also genetically programmed to be colder - and if your wife is a redhead, she'll feel the cold even more, as us redheads apparently feel cold at 6 degrees warmer than other women. I know it's a real pain for you, but be kind! At the moment my living room is 24 degrees, I've got the heating on full and am wearing two jumpers - but my hands are still blue with cold.

[andyjevs]

This drives me potty. I walk in and a wall of heat hits me so i go round and open all the windows. At night, i have all the windows open and still have a small desk fan running all night....my wife goes to bed with hat. gloves, scarf etc etc.
Today is the first day i've not worn shorts at work since April....but i have them on now. The other thing i do as soon as i get home from work is take my shoes and socks off. I suffer with hot feet and it drives me mad.

Roll on this arctic winter we're supposed to be getting :-D

[Supernick]

I've noticed this over the last couple of years. We're now in the the season where we get air con wars in the office. All the girls are adamant that it stays off, and all the men are convinced that it needs to be on. Cue lots of subtle attempts to sneak up to the console and flick the on button, or cunning remote control theft.

Don't women as part of their genetic make up store more fat than men? Shouldn't this insulate them more?

[Chessman]

Some great answers, Mistopheles. my wifes hair is Auburn, so I suppose technichally, that counts, I think us men should club together, and send you ladies to the Med for the winter, so us men can feel at hom, at home. andy, i'm with you with the wall of heat, but I can't open the windows, I get nagged, and when I wake up in the morning, I feel like i'm drugged, but I have a theory, (the cunning plan is natures), it just could be natures way of protecting the unborn children, forcing the women to wrap up. Well, thats my theory, and i'm sticking to it, so if I want to stay wed, i'll have to suffer, but thats what we men do anyway, Says I, tongue in cheek.

[mullein3]

we have just had a new heating system installed and its too flaming hot its like living in a greenhouse..we are totally opposite i am making mr m sleep with no heating in the bedroom and the window open..he is wrapped up in pyjamas.. jumpers.. scarves ..very romantic its like sleeping with a jumble sale..and i keep turning the heating down..i like air i shall turn my air conditioneron soon and freeze mr m to death while we watch the soaps....

[Chessman]

Sorry Super, left yout, apologies, your post has, I think, been answered in the first one/

[Buenchico]

Mistopheles: How can you think straight at that temperature? When I was teaching I ensured that my classroom temperature never went above 20C - I tried to keep it at 18C - because the human brain just doesn't work well at high temperatures. I still have a few battles in the office at work but there are some advantages to being in charge!

(In case anyone is wondering, I haven't had any heating on the house at all recently, up until last night when I switched a low-power fan-heater on for about 30 minutes).

I'm not too sure about these arguments that females tend to feel the cold more than males. Many years ago, I was walking along the seafront, with a girlfriend, on a fairly cool summer's day. She pointed out to me that, of the twenty or so kids splashing in the cold sea, not one of them was a boy. (She pointed this out, of course, with various references to how much tougher females were than males). Since then, I've noticed, on many occasions, that this is true. The girls will be happily splashing about long after the boys have started shivering and got dressed. OK, maybe something happens at puberty which swings things the other way round but, certainly in childhood, it seems that it's the males who feel the cold most.

Chris

[WendyS]

Well here's another household where the female walks around with thick jumpers and a fleece while my husband still wears short sleeves, pulls his socks off because he's too hot and throws all the windows open. I really don't know the answer to this apart from one of us sleeping in the bedroom while the other camps on the lawn in a tent. My husband doesn't really enjoy summer - only really comes into his own in the winter when it's freezing. I on the other hand mentally and physically start hibernating in the autumn and don't come alive again until the spring.

[andyjevs]

And whilst we're on the subject, my wife has her bath water sooooo hot that it makes her red. It's the same with the shower too....almost on full blast whereas i have a shower at luke warm temps.
Is this normal female behaviour ????? :-0

[Loocfox]

Wish i could get cold, we sleep in a bedroom with only a sheet on, the window wide open and the ceiling fan going, my husband says its like sleeping in the artic, But i have noticed that when we do not have the fan going on the ocasional nite that i feel cooler he sleeps on top of the covers anyway. glad when the menopause is gone.

[maggie01]

You can't beat a hot bath or shower. It takes a while to get in the bath and sitting down takes even longer, but when you get there it's bliss.

[Jules001]

well I'm going to go against the grain on this one, I am female and I have a window open all year round in the bedroom. I am currently sitting here in a short sleeved t shirt whilst Mr Jules is sitting bundled up in a fleece. He always closes the windows and pushes up the temperature of the heating. He always gets out of the swimming pool or sea before me and has his baths and showers really hot. He pinches all the duvet and wraps it around him at night, whilst I am left with practically nothing. I am nearly always barefooted in the house whilst he wears socks and slippers. I suppose that as I am overweight and he is as thin a rake might have something to do with it ;)

[mimififi]

My Son is AlWAYS complaining of hot feet and so is my husband. We have very pale cream carpets in mour house and I am always nagging the kids to keep on the house slippers as the grease from their skin make the carpets grubby. My son is alwasy complaining about this claiming that his feet are hot and indeed many times he takes his shoes off or his slippers off and his socks are drenched. I always assumed that he was being naughty and had walked in a puddle or something...? now you're telling me that he might actually be telling the truth???Heavens!

I am alwasys cold, but I don't put the heating on at night as I wake up feeling groggy. My husband is like a hot coal (and not always in a good way) so I always try to put my freezing cold toes on him in bed to try to keep warm, but he complains and tells me to clear off :-( says that I'm too cold.

I think women are always cold to encourage them to wrap new born babies and also to want to cuddle up to their husbands when there isn't really any other motivation to do so, just to keep those hubbies interested really, hehehehehe. As I sit here typing,I am wearing an actual coat...! Guess what....I'm a red head too! But I'm probably alwasy cold as Im so sylph like...(NOT)

[suzie4U]

I'm hot all the time chemotherapy sent me in to early menopause I was 44 at the time does anyone know how long this will last windows open all the time i have a fan in every room save loads on heating lol

[shaneystar]

I feel the cold terribly and hate the winter.Mr.S is still wearing T shirts and I am bundled up in a thick jumper.I don't like the heating on in the bedroom though and must have a window open a little bit for air otherwise I wake up feeling doped..So have a duvet and a thick quilt on top of that.Sometimes even have a hot water bottle !!! This leads to lots of arguments about duvet pinching and so on ..I am seriously thinking of getting twin beds !!
I never used to feel the cold and was brought up in the days of coal fires,outside loos and tin baths.I think it is because I don't move about so quickly these days due to this osteoarthritis.
Roll on summer again is all I can say..I like to feel the sun on my bones.If I was really,really rich I would clear off to sunnier climes for the winter.

[tobeloy]

I could do with comin to one of your nice warm houses, (any offers) I suffer terrible with the cold and have raynauds in my hands, on top of this i live in private rented accomodation that has only one gas fire for the whole flat which is in the living room, the windows are old and on somedays it is warmer outside than in, I have one of these landlords who says a job will get done but never does and if I complain has strongly hinted to me I am out yet was nice as pie when I took the place on, I cant even afford to move yet...anyway moan over brrrrrrrrrrrrrrr its freezing

[Supernick]

While I was at university I lived in a house where a few rooms didn't have any heating including my bedroom. On some days during the winter you could see your breath in it - not nice for running to the shower, but bliss for being in bed.

[woofgang]

oh ha ha, am in the middle of the menopause and feel like I will never be cold again. Mr W keeps saying to me wear a coat, take a coat, we sleep with the windows wide open too

[Loocfox]

Hello,To Suzie4u I was thrown into an early menopause at 42 by chemo i found that taking Rhodiola to make me feel better memory etc and sage tablets for hot sweats in the day and during the night are very good, you might find that you have to wait for about 1half to 2 months before you start to feel the difference but it is worth it go to Holland and Barratt and have a read up about them, also if you get a bit down take St Johns wort, only if you are not on any medication, also ask at H & B they are wonderfull i have taken them for 6 months now, and am having a month of them then will start again i have felt brilliant. I have felt so good i have started to do all the things that i have not been able to do for years since my chemo. Hope this helps you, I am 53 and the hot sweats now have started to subside.

To Shaneystar i read on answerbank somewhere that a lady took Yucca Schidigera for her osteoarthritis and she said it was wonderfull took the pains away she never felt better http://www.holistic-online.com/Herbal-Med/_Herbs/h208.htm have a look at this site hope it helps, or ask at Holland & Barratt they should be able to help you find out about it.

[copippin]

It is the opposite in our house,my husband is the one all bundled up like a jumble sale!!whilst I roast alive.He does however have an excuse in that he suffers greatly with osteoarthritis and keeping warm helps a lot with the symptoms. Mrs Shaneystar,you should try Yucca Schidigera,I think I was the one who posted a comment about it a while back.My husband has been taking it for nearly two months now and is 95% pain free and his mobility has increased beyond measure.Before ordering this wonder supplement, I went onto this website and found out a good bit about it www.tandjenterprises.com it is an american website but I only wanted information on Yucca not to order from them.The Yucca we ordered requires you to take just two capsules a day and the results have been amazing,even miraculous!The company from whom we ordered does not have a website or a telephone number--I know it sounds fishy but it's all above board--- all I can do is give you the address which is in the netherlands.It is New Millenium Health,Postbus3946,4800 DX BREDA,The Netherlands. If you do decide to try it good luck with it,I am sure you won't regret it.