Do any of you feel sensitive to extreme temperatures?

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I realize I only like swimming outdoors when it's really warm outside and the pool is also heated. I also don't like being extremely cold or hot indoors or outdoors. Do any of you feel sensitive to extreme temperatures?

I deal very badly with heat, but don't seem to mind cold.

Summers are the worst for me, I have Psoriasis, sun can be too strong for me even inside my apartment, I can get sick to my stomach in the heat, in the mornings, I can skip breakfast, cuz my stomach can hurt & I’m not hungry. When I younger, I was in a very extreme cold, I was in a snowstorm on vacation too. Now I don’t like it when it below 45 degrees, I really hate it when it’s in the 30s. I have joint pains, I have Psoriatic Arthritis, I’m taking joint vitamins.

Right now, the temperature is about 32°C (89°F), with 63% humidity.  Indoors is about 10°C (18°F) cooler.

I thank God for air conditioning!

I do very poorly in extreme summer heat. I don't mind the winter cold.

Perhaps it's because I grew up in warm climates, but I am very tolerant of hot weather. Where I live now it easily gets over 100F in the summer, and I will go out riding my bike. I actually like the feeling of the sun on my arms being hot. I also don't really care about sweating, and it's very humid here. I think that as long as I have shade, ventilation, and water, and I don't have to exert myself or do work, I can put up with quite hot temperatures. Anything below 70F I consider chilly.

The cold I find very hard to deal with. I don't even like being indoors when the A/C is too strong. I carry a sweater on 100F days to wear in stores and restaurants, and on the bus.

I greatly dislike being outside in any temperature below 50F, and anything below 40F is miserable. Yes, you can bundle up, but your nose and face will always be cold, and your hands too if you have to take off your gloves to take out your keys. And all the layers that make it bearable are so uncomfortable, especially if you then have to go inside somewhere. I lived in the US Northeast for over 20 years so it's a familiar experience.

I can't stay warm even if it is a little cool. That started when my thyroid quit. I routinely use an electric blanket even when it is relatively mild.

About a year and a half ago, I was doing some work outside one evening in about 40 to 45 F weather. After a bit, I went back to the office to get a heavier coat. While there, I checked my temperature. It took about 5 tries before I warmed up enough for the thermometer to register -- it won't register below 90 F. I put on a heavier coat and went back, but for the most part stayed where it was warm.

Hot isn't much of an issue, though as long as it is not too much over 100 F

I do fine in extreme temps compared to the average person I think. I've spent a lot of time in the Summer Sun over the last several years so have perhaps conditioned myself to tolerate it well. I can continue to do work outside in 35-37C+ heat and spent a week or two working outside in almost no shade doing construction site cleanup during a heat wave 5 or so years ago - steel toes, hardhat etc - I just had to drink around 1L/hour of water. A couple Saturdays ago it was 35C or so and I spent the day landscaping along with 5 other guys.. not too crazy fast paced so it wasn't too hard to just keep going steadily. I've also been in sub zero temps for Winter sports dipping down to -35, -40C/F overnight. Wore a couple layers, no skin exposed, did fine.

The only times I've had a bit more difficulty in very low temps is when I've been Very lean with no bodyfat to help keep warm.

My out of shape twin brother cannot really tolerate the heat at all. No chance he could do any actual real work in the hot sun without heat stroke or vomiting.

I think body composition and conditioning/training are major factors in how well people tolerate extreme temperatures.

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I mind cold so much because sometimes it hurts.

It's more physical than psychological or related to sensory processing alone.

It's one thing to try and ignore preference and take all discomfort or even associated pain when in sensory processing, it's entirely another trying to ignore physiological symptoms.

My body doesn't regulate well in cold. I don't heat up easily unless I'm sick.


My attempts at trying to be tolerant to cold made me a bit less tolerant to heat.

I'm starting to mind heat not for the heat itself, but the physical symptom of sweating and feeling lazier due to my body's attempt to cool itself.


Most common factor in my case is humidity.
I won't do well in either temperatures in high humidity.

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I don't do well with heat. Especially in drier climates. Despite growing up.in a warm area. Ive.spent a lot of time being extremely ill during the summer.time.

I've never had a problem with cold.

I'm much happier.in a cooler more humid climate.with lots of rain.

Oh, the degrees in the post above is in Celsius, not in Fahrenheit.

I struggle with heat, even at moderate temperatures.
I manage cold well.