Posted by jjjaspar on October 4, 2008, at 17:13:02
In reply to Re: 'Normal' Body Temp » bimini, posted by Phillipa on September 28, 2008, at 19:36:25
A family member (child) tended to have low body temp, which fluctuated. It often was 96.8 and she tended to get both hypothermic and hyperthermic on field trips when other kids were fine. Sometimes they had to seek medical intervention for her.
Later she was found to have a dysfunction in her hypothalamic-pituitary axis. She is now on multiple hormones and feels MUCH better.
I also have low body temp, and when I feel really bad, like I have a fever I take my temp and it is LOWER than my normal. I never could explain it, but I have a sibling the same way.
After the child was diagnosed, I could not help but wonder if my brother and I maybe have a slight version of the same problem.
In any case, I do believe that the low body temp may be correlated with people not feeling well and having low hjormones like low thyroid , or FUNCTIONALLY low thyroid. It can be in the normal range but transport across the blood-brain barrier might be low -- a common problem found in people with schizophrenia. Or conversion from T4 to T3 might be low, or they may have sub-clinical hypothyroidism.
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