wierd physical stuff
Feb. 12th, 2009 12:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ljgeoffI got really cold last night. It's a weird kind of "really cold" that has only happened to me maybe eight or ten times that I can think of, and most of those times have been postpartum. And google tells me that is actually something called postpartum chill phenomenon:
Yeah, so just like that, except that I haven't had a baby in over eight years.
Digging a little more, I see that these same type of chills occure during menopause. "The body treats nursing like menopause with all the same symptoms due to lack of estrogen."
I got home from work around 10:30 pm, and went right to bed, but couldn't get warm and couldn't get to sleep. My muscles were cramped with cold. Finally, I got up and got into the shower. After being under the spray for a couple of minutes, I started shivering and couldn't stop. I was pretty surprised, because those are symptoms of hypothermia. Finally, I warmed up, dried off and stumbled into bed. But my muscles are sore today.
Shivers and shakes. Immediately after delivery many women experience chills and whole-body shakes, probably due to a resetting of the body's temperature regulating system after a long bout of hard work.
Yeah, so just like that, except that I haven't had a baby in over eight years.
Digging a little more, I see that these same type of chills occure during menopause. "The body treats nursing like menopause with all the same symptoms due to lack of estrogen."
I got home from work around 10:30 pm, and went right to bed, but couldn't get warm and couldn't get to sleep. My muscles were cramped with cold. Finally, I got up and got into the shower. After being under the spray for a couple of minutes, I started shivering and couldn't stop. I was pretty surprised, because those are symptoms of hypothermia. Finally, I warmed up, dried off and stumbled into bed. But my muscles are sore today.