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PostPosted: April 4th, 2012, 10:02 am 
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I hate being cold.
It's super fun to bundle up snugly and go out to play in the snow, because, even though the wind bites my cheeks and nose, the cold is not making me suffer.
But how about when I'm sitting in a room, wearing a t-shirt, while the air conditioning is cranked up too high? How about on a damp, misty spring morning, when I feel the chill in my bones? That's what I don't like.

Another thing. I have lived here in Texas almost as long as I can remember. Here, it never gets below freezing more than one or two days at a time. I've never felt extreme cold.
But I'm sure some of you have.

Tell us about it! What's it like to be cold?

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Now, I don't like being cold, but I am sometimes immune to it...I've said I have a heat problem, well the worst is when I'm exerting myself in 40 degree weather. My skin turns numb (I often don't wear a jacket because of my heat problem, but if I was planning on spending hours in the weather doing nothing I would have one), and I feel like my insides are on fire, usually in this situation my heat rash (yes, I get a heat rash in freezing weather if I do anything much) pierces my scalp, and is excruciatingly annoying and even angering sometimes, especially if I'm having a bad attitude (anger brings on the rash too, as do other emotions, but that's beside the point, sorry :P ).

But if it's, say, fifty outside I might go for a walk without a jacket and be just fine, my skin and limbs start to feel cold, but I feel fine mostly, it beats wearing a jacket and getting that despicable rash.

I haven't been in "true" freezing weather (-40 or lower, as I define it ;) ), but I can guess from 80 degrees warmer that within seconds your skin would go numb (because that happens here in the 30-40s), and eventually you lose feeling and (so I've read) you will start feeling truly warm, that's a good sign you're freezing to death.


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*nods*
When I am just standing or sitting around, I get chilled, even if I'm dressed warmly. But if I go run around and actually exercise, I'm shucking off my coat off before long. :)

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:rofl:

So, was your bedroom cold?

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Whoa, that would be hard! I think in that situation I would get my rash from the cold...so it can hardly be called a heatrash, it's more like...a temperature rash. :rofl:


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Hmmm...Lycanis, do any of your characters have your same condition?

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I am always cold - like always. Everyone else might be warm, but I am sure to be cold. I sleep with 2 duvets, and an heavy blanket even in the summer. I've never understood how I can always be so cold, but I guess it's just me. I always wear a cardigan/jacket, and either go around the house in my thick dressing gown in the winter, or constantly wear a coat. We do have central heating, the house is warm. I'm just cold.

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Aemi Kurisuchan wrote:
Hmmm...Lycanis, do any of your characters have your same condition?


Not yet, but I've thought quite a bit about having one have it...I thought it'd be a good way to make a character have a quite unique problem...and since it's something I have I'm hoping it's something I'll be able to describe well. :dieshappy:


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Of my family, I'm the one who's most likely to feel cold (I don't switch from sweatshirts to light long-sleeved shirts, let alone T-shirts, until the highs get into the 70s). And there are two non-obvious effects related to cold weather that I've had the misfortune to experience over the last few years: First, if exposed skin gets even slightly wet and not dried properly, it can develop "chillblains", a sort of blister, even if the air temperature is only slightly chilly. And second, if extremities get too cold (almost frost-bitten) once, they become thereafter a) more vulnerable to the cold/frostbite and b) more sensitive to heat (e.g. a shower that's otherwise pleasantly warm can feel like it's scalding my toes)---cold can produce wounds that never entirely heal.

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*grimble, grumble, grouse *

I actually have a very hard time maintaining my body temp (long story as to why), so I am always cold. In fact, the doctors always recheck my temp because of how cold I typically read. I wear leggings and arm warmers 3 out of 4 seasons. So if anyone has any questions as to that particularly, I can help. :D

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My worst, is once I got minor frost bite on my finger tips, the rest was numb, like I punched a wall and my friend asked me why, and I didn't know I did, numb. :P But that led to me having to lay on a couch while my fingers felt like they were burning, so I would say, that being cold leads to you feeling like you're on fire when you warm up.

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I seem oblivious to cold, but that may be because I live in the north. :rofl:
Well, mostly oblivious. After it gets down below 23 F it becomes too cold to stay outside without proper gear.

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(I don't switch from sweatshirts to light long-sleeved shirts, let alone T-shirts, until the highs get into the 70s).


Highs in the 70s is when I break out my sweatshirt! :rofl:

Anyway... interesting topic. I've never been all that cold, since I'm from Florida. The coldest I've ever been, I think, was at a swim practice when it was 27F. But even then, I just made a mad dash to the locker room, where my nice, warm parka was. :)

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I love the cold. I usually shovel snow wearing only shorts and a long sleeve. :dieshappy:

I'm in the midwest, so we can get some frigid weather. The coldest I've ever seen was around -28F below zero and a weather man threw a cup of boiling water in the air and it froze before hitting the ground.

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Roager wrote:
I love the cold. I usually shovel snow wearing only shorts and a long sleeve. :dieshappy:

I'm in the midwest, so we can get some frigid weather. The coldest I've ever seen was around -28F below zero and a weather man threw a cup of boiling water in the air and it froze before hitting the ground.


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Man, that is cold.

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That sounds like the -50C winters we sometimes get here. *Shudders*

Oh and for future reference, writers in cold climates, -55C and below, uncovered skin freezes in 30 seconds.

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Roager wrote:
I'm in the midwest, so we can get some frigid weather. The coldest I've ever seen was around -28F below zero and a weather man threw a cup of boiling water in the air and it froze before hitting the ground.


Our local weather man did that too once, when it was that cold. We then promptly boiled some water and tried it for ourselves. :rofl: It was fun. ^_^

So, for cold, yeah, basically repeating what other people said. XD If you're not dressed warmly enough for the current temps, then first your fingers/ears/face/feet get really cold, and when you warm them up again it hurts pretty bad. I've never had to stay outside long enough in cold weather to get any colder than that; when it's below zero, we usually are excused from shoveling. XD


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Also being a Northerner, I'd might add that windburn is quite uncomfortable when you thaw out. Then your cheeks are rosy red for a few days.

Being cold makes me sluggish, which is inconvenient since my fingers are constantly cold. It makes it challenging to type fast at work that way. (Not knowing correct keyboarding is also to my disadvantage.)

Another thing I've noticed is when you're cold you don't feel the urge to drink, therefore you dehydrate more easily because your body is working extra hard to stay warm.

During the summer I don't get too cold, but in the winter my family makes fun of me because of my layers. I keep 4 blankets on my bed (2 are double layer tie blankets) and for pajamas I wear a long sleeve shirt and sweatshirt, leggings under polar fleece pajama pants, and my favorite pair of thick wool socks. Much to my surprise and enjoyment, my parents got me an electric blanket for Christmas last year, so now I discard the leggings and sweatshirt. :3

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