Advised Room Temperatures

[KingoftheCocktails]

Hi HealthUnlockders

Try to keep your lounge/sittinging room at 21 degrees and your bedroom at 18 degrees.

Richard Cornish

BREATHE EASY = FRIENDSHIP

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My temperature gage is all over the place. Sometimes I can't tell if I am hot or cold but more often than not I am perspiring. I know it's not my age as I am well past that, I wonder if it's part of copd?

[Hidden in reply to Hidden]

Oh gilly.

I thought it was just me with the awful sweating,. I try to put it down to the tablets, I'm on so many, plus the sprays.

It is mainly my head and neck, my hair can be dripping, I often have to sit on the patio late at night to cool down,

we have only put the heating on in the last week!

My husband keeps saying he is cold and wraps the furry throw round himself, and there I am with a hand fan trying to cool down,,I try to keep the house warm for when he comes in from work,

I often turn it off during the day,, I find the hotter I am the more trouble I have being sob.

It is bad after I have a shower,, that's why I use my hair dryer on cool to dry my skin, I am the same as you, it's no longer my age thing! That was twenty years ago, I came through that ok.

But it only started really when I was being given all sorts of medication and sprays these last few years. At night I can only have a cover over me and the window open, and still I wake with the pillow soaking wet, forever tuning it over.

Perhaps it is medication?

I feel for Gordon suffering from Raynards, it is the complete opposite for me but just as uncomfortable.

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You have just described me Ruby, even down to cooling off with the hair dryer, It must be the medication or the inhalers. I find it embarrassing when it happens when I'm out, it's not very feminine but what can you do??

[lavender1]

See what you've started Richard I am cold most of the time and when it comes to hands you are speaking icy but immediately I encounter some form of heating even at normal temperature or a nice sunny day the breathlessness and discomfort starts but never mind I'm sure your blog was aimed at normal folk which doesn't seem to include the 4 people including me who've answered so far -ha ha cant do the smiley faces!

[KingoftheCocktails in reply to lavender1]

Are any of us normal!

[vittorio in reply to KingoftheCocktails]

Hmm - WHAT IS NORMAL ? !!!

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I am also a coldie and have had my heating on for quite some time. I don't find that it affects my breathing so that is a good thing or I would have to chose between shivering and gasping!

[libbygood]

I can't stand a warm bedroom, we have a summer duvet on all year round I just don't like being hot, only have the heating on when family come to stay.I find hot rooms make me SOB. Have a log fire in the sitting room and log burner in the hall, so I can either have heat or move away from it. I also wake up in the night sweating and I'm also past that age !

Libby

[KingoftheCocktails in reply to libbygood]

Cheeky !

[KingoftheCocktails in reply to libbygood]

I had to stop using log burner as one whiff of smoke made me SOB and near to a panic attack.Richard Cornish

[linsabout]

Oh gilly and ruby how good it is to read its not just me...and like you its not my age

[EmmyH]

Although I don't like being cold, I couldn't stand those room temperatures! Also it seems very wasteful to have the heating turned up when another jumper or fleece would help. I've had our heating on for weeks as I'm a "chilly mortal", but only on low. I set the thermostat in our hall at 15 degrees for overnight and maybe 16/17 during the daytime. That takes the chill off nicely. I like my woolly jumpers!

[derrylynne]

My heating goes on in October. And then does not get turned off until April. I have about 22C in the house most the time. With the bedrooms being about 20/21. It is so very important for us with lung illness to keep warm.

I used to work for an energy company and sometimes was amazed by how much power some customers were using. Often i would be asked to visit them as they thought there must be something wrong with their meter. I only put the heating on for two hours in the evening, and an hour in the morning, was an often heard complaint. And that is why their energy bills were so high. Far higher than mine. Think of it. Everything was freezing cold. The air, the walls, the furniture. So heating goes on, and all that energy is going into the walls, the furniture, the air never really reaching its thermostatic controlled temperature. So the boiler was in fact working non stop for three hours, and achieving little. Mine, all the walls are warm, as is the floors, the furniture. The house is well insulated, cavity wall, good loft insulation. So my boiler just ticks over, night and day, using less energy than the the one that only put theirs on for a few hours a day. Not only that. But I am warm 24/7. Many of my customers on a repeat visit months after giving them that advice told me they had tried it and were amazed I was right. And thanked me.

[sassy59]

We try and keep to 22 degrees or thereabouts but I am always hot upstairs and Pete is often cold. He wraps the duvet round him some nights but other nights he burns up and it is like laying next to a radiator. I have no idea what normal is but am certain Pete is not it! xxxx

[Hecter]

I am just too hot all the time.My husband says it is like living in an igloo.22 is too hot for me.I suppose we are all different and normal

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I think most couples respond to heating differently. Going back to drying clothes, I would thought the moisture would have acted as a humidifer, thus easing breathing. It seems not. I know lighting candles dries the atmosphere making me "fuggy". The best thing is to go to bed, with open windows. The fresh air is such a relief. TB patients used to be nursed in chalets years ago. to help their condition.