Cold shivers after sweating

[Dodo777]

I've been trying to clean the garden to get my strength back after a long period of being I'll every few days or so but it was windy when I cut grass with shears and felt a chill I've never felt before and an hour later I am shivering i got heating on and its making no difference I haven't been eating well due to Achalasia and I've been losing weight.

I started to force myself to do a little something everyday not to be motionless which is a big killer but I think going outside windy chilly was silly. I hoping this will pass as the heat gets into me. I'm on setter with quilt over me and room is getting warmer.

I must try and eat more my fear is mental health team said about having a tube but into my stomach and that scares me big time. Comes a time if I ain't eating my body will start breaking down.

Not looking good.

[Agora1]

Hi Dodo, Do you think maybe you are overdoing it a bit in the last few days? Working in the garden is hard work. Before fear takes over, we have to step back and take a look at what we've done to possibly provoke anxiety. Thoughts as well as physical work can bring about symptoms that we may not understand. Sometimes a virus can be giving us a different kind of feeling.

See if you can warm up some. Are you able to drink something warm? That will warm you up from the inside out. If you don't have a fever, it will probably pass shortly. You may have worked up a little sweat in cutting the grass and when the chilly wind hit you, you felt the chills.

One step at a time. The anxious mind tends to go down the road further than we can see right now. No need to worry about a tube in your stomach. Small steps Dodo. Let us know how you are feeling right now. You are never alone on the forum.

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Hello.....just a word of encouragement...about not eating and being cold. I felt this way years ago while going through a very fearful, anxious period of over two years. I live in a very southern, very hot state of the US. I had no interest in eating for days on end. None of my clothes fit anymore. Was just trying to keep my job.

At my first night of attending a free support group for divorcing women, in a June summer evening, I had the heat on in my car and wore a sweater and jacket. I simply could not get warm. I was a new member of the group, so I didn't say anything. I waited until the end of the group and simply asked: "Is anybody else here cold?" (Thought maybe the air conditioning was on too cool) It was an honest question. I had no idea that fear, stress, or anxiety could cause me such physical symptoms. I just knew I was cold.

But once I said that, the therapist coordinator of the group came up to me and began to ask health questions, on any medications (no), how far away I lived, was I eating, was I still able to work and asked if she call my GP, and said I shouldn't be driving.

The other group members watched and then came to me and some said they understood and I was going to be ok if I could eat a little more. One member drove me home in my car, while another followed. After that one member always drove us to and from the weekly support group.

I had to stop working, and forced myself to eat five small meals a day that included protein shakes. Or a sandwich, whatever I could fix quickly. My father died with Parkinsons and a feeding tube for the last two years because he could not swallow properly. I didn't want that to happen to me.

I am much better now, that was almost 30 years ago.

I had to stop working because my body couldn't handle the hours, it was just too much. I was too tired to care if I ate, and sometimes had those cold episodes for awhile.

But I really am a different woman now. Hope this helped you to know someone else went through the cold feeling, after trying to work at anything, and cared less about eating.

You are going to be ok, but, like me ,it' going to take time and patience and keeping a diary of what I ate....that helped. With no appetite, I wasn't eating but I saw in my diary that it was time to eat something.

My best wishes to your recovery. I'll support you all the way.