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Sharks758
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Are you heat intolerant or undersensitive

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I know im undersensitive to heat because i have to turn the shower up nearly full to be at the right temperature and its so hot my skin goes red for a while. Then i forget to tutn the heat down and the next person in it shouts at me cause the get burned.
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Re: Are you heat intolerant or undersensitive

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Hey im matt

i am over sensitive to temperature are you sure your not under-sensitive to temperature not heat ?
like do you rarely get cold or can you get cold easy ?
i get really hot or really cold very easy before any one else
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Re: Are you heat intolerant or undersensitive

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Yes you're right, sometimes get a bit confused with these things
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Re: Are you heat intolerant or undersensitive

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I'm pretty much undersensitive for everything. i do have my showers reaaaally hot.Peeple always say that I use boiling water. It takes me a while to notice temperature changes in rooms. Sometimes I feel frozen cold, though. but then sometimes people will say it's really cold (not just one person) and I hadn't noticed it. weird
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Re: Are you heat intolerant or undersensitive

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I once spilled a kettle of boiling water on my face...dont ask how...i didnt shout as much as my sister beside me who get a small bit of it on her arm
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Re: Are you heat intolerant or undersensitive

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I'm the opposite....hypersensitive to cold. But it's the same for other things too....certian materials & light in particular
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Re: Are you heat intolerant or undersensitive

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Im also oversensitive to light. But that may be because my lenses were taken out due to cataracts so i dont have protection to uv in sunlight which hurts when i take my glasses off outside
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Re: Are you heat intolerant or undersensitive

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I'd be the same but I have lenses...for years when i'd go out in sunlight I'd automatically say....Bright light bright light....no idea where it came from until I saw the gremlins again at Christmas!
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Re: Are you heat intolerant or undersensitive

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I cannot handle hot things at all or cold. I am always feeling either hot or cold rarely comfortable. I cannot cope with very hot weather ( and I am talking hot for scotland)
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Re: Are you heat intolerant or undersensitive

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I dont like being too hot or too cold, I always try and keep myself cool or I get really annoyed!
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Re: Are you heat intolerant or undersensitive

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yes me too being to hot can really effect mood and temperament

i also find i cant keep at a nice temp and am always too clod or too warm and this has got worse recently

i also find i sleep better when i have a fan on in my room
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Re: Are you heat intolerant or undersensitive

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im sensitive to heat cannot bare to be too hot,i get really moody and stressed,i rarely feel cold ! and tend to wear my sandles all year round as my feet are so hot lol
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Re: Are you heat intolerant or undersensitive

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I am sensitive to heat and light - summer time is really anoying - its really hot, bright and just to finish it off people are all seaming to be really happy which irratets me and can be depresing.

I have found that I am more sensitive to light recently then before, I think its beceuse I am notesing it more and this can affect my mood a lot. I have sorted out cloured lenze glases which realy should help, I just need to save up some more money untill i can pick them up.
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Re: Are you heat intolerant or undersensitive

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I hate cold water and I'm sure my baths/showers would be intolerably too hot for many. I have been consciously trying to keep the shower down a notch as have eczema and getting it too hot is not a good thing.

I suspect I don't feel the cold as I generate my own through fidgeting, worrying and fretting. I did a glacier walk when I was in Canada this year and while everyone else was well wrapped up in extra gear I was at times feeling a little too warm in my t-shirt, thin fleece and summer rain jacket. I don't much like wooly hats so this was one of the rare times I wore one.

I like the sun but when it's too hot/humid I'm not good and tend to start itching. I'd rather be a little cold than too hot for that reason.

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Re: Are you heat intolerant or undersensitive

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im fine with hot weather etc how ever i do feel the cold very easy and even when others are warm or hot ill be cold my hands and feet feel it the most i was told it something to do with poor circulation in my blood
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