Fri, Sep 19, 2008
Anti-Fever
Posted to Miscellaneous category
This is annoying. I just spent most of the morning in bed, with an extra blanket and the heat on in the house, alternating spells of being awake and shivering and having weird dreams.
It was not a return of the fever. My temperature at 6:30 was 96.6. When I finally got up -- I was having a hot flash -- it was all the way up to 97.9, but I still feel wiped out.
Yesterday was a small break in routine: I went over to the office for a while, and stayed on for the Colorado Rational Users' Group meeting in the evening. But I didn't do anything strenuous, and I brought my own dinner. (All of the rest of the attendees ate pizza. Just from Pizza Hut, but it smelled wonderful.)
I've been having milder bouts of these morning chills all week.
I don't eat a lot, but I nibble on snacks frequently during the day because my blood sugar feels like it is tanking. Maybe this problem -- being cold in the mornings after a night without eating -- is related to that.
With my metabolism this hosed, it's no wonder I'm not losing weight: I'm not burning as many calories as I should be, and I'm not buring stored ones. It's almost tempting to look at some of those products that are supposed to help you metabolize body fat -- there might be some that are not completely snake oil. But that's probably wishful thinking.