Raising low body temperature

My body temp is around 97.5. I know this is typical of Lyme and I believe bart.

When I sit with a heating blanket, I can get it to rise to 98.8.

Other than for obvious benefit of improved comfort levels, is there any benefit to artificially raising your temp?

I have always been about 97.2. With lyme I also always felt like I was running a fever. Every time I took it I was "my" normal.

Purrrsiankitty said...
...is there any benefit to artificially raising your temp?

Pyrotherapy has been used against conditions like Cancer, Malaria, and Lyme Disease.

Girlie said...
I'm always cold too. Drinking tea all the time...and always bundled up.

Do you drink a lot of fluids? I've read that this can cause a drop in body temperature. Clear urine is supposed to be one indication of drinking too many fluids.

Lyme sure made me nuts when it came to body temperature. I had a thermometer in my living room so I could easily reach over and check my temp. I was consistently low, like I said above. However, I felt feverish or cold to the bone.

Hubby joked that my thermostat was broken -- he is a car buff. Then when he got lyme, the same thing happened to him. Either freezing cold and all bundled up or hot and feeling like a fever.

Look on this chart under temperature disturbances and it sure enough is a symptom.

www.lyme-symptoms.com/LymeCoinfectionChart.html

Below is a interesting article regarding low body temperature:

davidjernigan.blogspot.ca/2015/05/low-body-temperature-and-illness-living.html

Denise

astroman said...
The best way to take is in the AM before moving out of bed- temp in arm pit.

I was 95 a few times, then 96's a lot. I got so discourage I stopped taking my temp.

Even now that the bad lyme symptoms are mostly gone, 96-97 is not uncommon for me late night or early AM. Its just the way I am.

I dont feel terrible, or sickly or anything when my temp is low, just kinda cold. Maybe Im supposed to be dead.

Even years prior to lyme, my temp was usually 36.5 C. which is 97.7.
That was when I was healthy.
I'm usually that temp now, sometimes a bit lower.

I posted questions about low body temp last year. Did this on other sites in the past to. No good answers, other than the cyanne which I mentioned.

Someone mentioned ideas/ treatments that the Hansa center uses. As usual it was not easy, and was, of course quite costly, like everything there.

Mid to high 97's prob arnt really that low. One of Dr's said the average temp is BS and many people are low, not just lymies or thyroid people.

Then there is Dr Wilson, who spent his carrier saying low temp is a T3 or reverse T3 issue. I easily proved that theory wrong.

It might be a circulation issue. ? At work I go to the equipment storage and jog in place to warm up if real cold, its last a few hours. I do this at home to, but if its night I role on the fitness roller faster than usual. Autoimmune is also related to being cold...and circulation such as reynards cold/blue finger syndrome.

*****How many are usually cold after 7 PM vs during the day.?*****

I feel a little warmer during the light hours, unless is a super cold commute.