# Anybody else out there who is amphibian? (Low body temp) **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 21, 2009, 11:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-out-there-who-is-amphibian-low-body-temp/482286 "2009-01-21T11:37:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2009, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-out-there-who-is-amphibian-low-body-temp/482286/41 "2009-01-23T23:32:44Z")
> [@Antinor01](#): > > I’m not as low as some of you but my normal is about 97.2. Oddly though my skin surface is always very warm. As in everyone I know comments on it. Interestingly enough, I am normally about 97.2, and I am also hyperhydrotic (perspire easily) and very sensitive to heat. ---
**Author:** ![hobscrk777](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a6a055/32.png) [@hobscrk777](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hobscrk777)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2009, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-out-there-who-is-amphibian-low-body-temp/482286/42 "2009-01-23T23:37:36Z")
> [@Litoris](#): > > **Wile E** , I never realised how low my respiration was until that nurse made me count it with her. I have hypopnia (I think that’s the term?), where my body “forgets to breath” too, though. Sometimes, I will just be sitting around and suddenly do this big not-quite-gasp and realise that I just hadn’t been breathing. The way the sleep tech described it, my nervous system just forgets to do the whole “breathe, idiot” impulse. My oxygen levels are always good, though, so whatchagonnado, right? Once, there was a health fair at the local mall. My cousin and I stopped in, because they were doing some random free gift with a BP check (we were teenagers, we liked free stuff!) and they were about to call the ambulance for me, we convinced them that I was not dying, felt great and was quite healthy, but the nurse doing the checks asked me to stay in the booth so she could check me out a few more times before agreeing to let me go! > . **Litoris** , I didn’t know this was an actual condition! I am the exact same way. I’ve been told by my parents that I gave them quite a few scares when I was a baby because I would suddenly stop breathing. ---
**Author:** ![Silophant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a698b9/32.png) [@Silophant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silophant)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2009, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-out-there-who-is-amphibian-low-body-temp/482286/43 "2009-01-23T23:38:13Z")
My base is somewhere in the vicinity of 97.5. When it hits 99.5, I consider myself to have a fever. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2009, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-out-there-who-is-amphibian-low-body-temp/482286/44 "2009-01-23T23:39:41Z")
I don’t perspire easily - I almost got heat stroke one hot summer day because we were exercising in the sun and I was hardly perspiring at all. ---
**Author:** ![MoodIndigo1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e8c25b/32.png) [@MoodIndigo1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MoodIndigo1)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2009, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-out-there-who-is-amphibian-low-body-temp/482286/45 "2009-01-24T05:49:56Z")
My base seems to be 35,8 C (96.44 F). I’ve felt like death warmed over on 100 F. I do suffer from the heat more than most. I love autumn and spring for that reason. ---
**Author:** ![SeaDragonTattoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@SeaDragonTattoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SeaDragonTattoo)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2009, 7:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-out-there-who-is-amphibian-low-body-temp/482286/46 "2009-01-24T07:12:13Z")
97.1 here. I also feel warm to other people. In college and my club-hopping days I was always the “official hand-warmer” for all the other girls I was with, since we’d stand outside in the cold with no coats on. I’m sensitive to the heat, too. I hate summer. It’s part of why I love living here, it’s only hot 3 months out of the year. I still consider Alaska an option for future residency! ---
**Author:** ![Audrey\_Levins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/73ab20/32.png) [@Audrey\_Levins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Audrey_Levins)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2009, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-out-there-who-is-amphibian-low-body-temp/482286/47 "2009-01-24T22:29:05Z")
I haven’t checked back with this thread because I got a horrendous bout of food poisoning (from a mass-produced prepackaged chocolate muffin, of all things) and in the ensuing nightmare forgot that I posted it. And I’m a bit ashamed of the typo in my OP. I myself run around 97.4, NOT 95.4. I think it’s intriguing that there _are_ people who run that low, though. I too am curious about **Ruffian’s** question about metabolic rates…I don’t know how to find out the answer to that question though. I myself have an above-average metabolism, I would suppose; I abuse it regularly and I’m within normal healthy weight parameters. My mother, who also runs a bit cold, has struggled with her weight all her life; she’s never been obese, but she’s rarely been _thin,_ and then only through truly herculean workout efforts and a rather frightening diet. I don’t know if there’s a correlation to body temp and metabolic rate but I would be interested to find out. In my case I don’t think it’s an issue, but it would be a curious study. FTR my feet are always freezing, though. Ask my boyfriend, who suffers. ---
**Author:** ![Ruffian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/71e660/32.png) [@Ruffian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruffian)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2009, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-out-there-who-is-amphibian-low-body-temp/482286/48 "2009-01-24T23:52:03Z")
Add to my curiosity of metabolic rates (that **Audrey** shares–btw, DeathLlama just corrected me; he ate \*\* 7 1/2\*\* cinnamon rolls, the freak) a curiosity about an intolerance of heat. Of course this thread is purely anecdotal, but I was surprised by how many cannot tolerate the heat. I absolutely can _not_ take the heat, and overheat easily. Good thing I live where it hits 110 in summer. :rolleyes: I always have been heat intolerant, and as a junior higher I remember I had to quit the track team because running the two mile warmup in the heat and humidity made me terribly ill (heat exhaustion, not heat stroke, thankfully). I remember one time it so wrecked me, I couldn’t walk home from the bus stop and lay on a stranger’s lawn to try and cool (kind lady actually came out to check on me). It took me the rest of the afternoon and evening to recover. Then again, I’ve managed to ride in horse shows in 100 degree weather, dressed in the wool hunt coat and high-necked show shirt, helmet, gloves, and tall boots. I prepare by drinking a gallon of water the day before, and at least 32oz before I get on the horse (plus a mister, eating juicy fruit, etc), so perhaps my issue had been not drinking enough water during my brief track team days and not my low body temp. ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2009, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-out-there-who-is-amphibian-low-body-temp/482286/49 "2009-01-25T00:07:22Z")
> [@Audrey\_Levins](#): > > And I’m a bit ashamed of the typo in my OP. > > I myself run around 97.4, NOT 95.4. I was wondering about that, and a lot of the other numbers in this thread :dubious:. Reason being that I’m usually in the low 97s and it has always, without fail, since I was a child, drawn looks of consternation and comments from medical professionals. “We usually don’t see temperatures this low”, “let me make a note about this and give it to the doctor”, “we might need to do some more testing”, etc. I can’t imagine people running 95s and 96s and being told “no big deal”. ---
**Author:** ![Audrey\_Levins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/73ab20/32.png) [@Audrey\_Levins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Audrey_Levins)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2009, 7:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-out-there-who-is-amphibian-low-body-temp/482286/50 "2009-01-25T07:30:48Z")
> [@Ruffian](#): > > Add to my curiosity of metabolic rates (that **Audrey** shares–btw, DeathLlama just corrected me; he ate \*\* 7 1/2\*\* cinnamon rolls, the freak) a curiosity about an intolerance of heat. Of course this thread is purely anecdotal, but I was surprised by how many cannot tolerate the heat. > > I absolutely can _not_ take the heat, and overheat easily. See, I can’t take cold weather. At all. If it drops below 50 I’m uncomfortable; if it drops below 30 I’m seriously pissed off and usually clenching every muscle in my body. I’ve always chalked this up to growing up in South Texas, where the heat index routinely shimmers above 100 in summer. Heat I can take; it’s annoying and you sweat, but it isn’t _painful,_ the way cold is. Interesting. ---
**Author:** ![tumbleddown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e9bcb4/32.png) [@tumbleddown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tumbleddown)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2009, 9:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-out-there-who-is-amphibian-low-body-temp/482286/51 "2009-01-25T09:18:41Z")
> [@Labrador\_Deceiver](#): > > Did you do it before you go to bed? Because your temperature tends to go up during the day, and drop during sleep. I thought I read somewhere that it is fairly common for people to experience a drop in temperature below 97 while sleeping. You may want to run your test at a different time of day. I was charting [basal body temperature](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basal_body_temperature) for the purposes of determining ovulation. This is how I know I run cool basically, I know that my regular waking hours baseline is about 96.8 from other experience. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-out-there-who-is-amphibian-low-body-temp/482286.md?page=2)