I also run a low blood pressure. I have had my BP taken at routine visits and frequently have the nurse ask me if I’m feeling faint or dizzy. I’ve never counted my respiration though.
My normal temp is 97.1
Mine’s generally lowish, like in the 97s, but not as low as some of all y’all. I knew someone who was regularly in the 94-95 range, though - that’s just how he was. He was a big guy too (though I doubt that had anything to do with it; I’m average-sized and mine’s lowish).
Ooh. Good question. I run about a degree low myself, and I do tend to “feel the heat” more than other people.
Me me me! I’d say my normal temperature is 35.8-36.4 C. I’m also always cold, and cold to the touch.
I actually don’t sweat normally. I only have to wear antiperspirant/deodorant in the winter. I sweat from my upper lip, but it just about has to be above 100 and humidity close to 100% with me working out for me to begin sweating like a normal person. Even when I was upwards of 300lbs, I was like that. I think I am just weird, though.
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!
Unlike many of you, I am more sensitive to the cold than to heat.
Mine’s normally in the 97s. Right now it is (beepbeepbeep) 97.7.
My spouse is a gecko, and I’m hummingbird, so we’ve had to give up trying to share blankets–she overheats if we stay in contact and says she can feel me radiating from a foot away.
Downside: Less snuggling.
Upside: The blankets are mine, all mine!
Hmmm, I never thought of this, but as I said my temp used to (and may still for all I know) run a bit hot, and yet I am the most cold-natured person I know. It’s always seemed like it should be the opposite.
My normal is 96.8, the inverse of the “usual” which has caused me no end of difficulties with health care people. But I charted my temperature for 19 solid months, every single morning, and I know my baseline, and that’s it.
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 going to say ‘reptile’, but I know that’s not right.
I tend to run hot. Not that my body temp is above average or anything, but I am more sensitive to heat than cold. (IMO, you can always take off clothing 
to stay cool, dunk in the tub or whatever, but when it is bonechilling cold to the point that your feet get hard and your hands get numb, there’s not much you can do but keep moving.
FYI: It only got up to about 40 degrees here today. Earlier this morning (about 25 degrees F), I had to take my jacket outside to have a smoke. By the time it was 2:00 PM, I was good in my long sleeve workshirt.
I once dated a northerner, and she used to love to snuggle. I would often fight for blanket position because she was always trying to suck the heat off of me in bed.
Upside: Snuggling and more blankets for me.
Downside: Get your cold *out-of-the-grave *feet OFFA ME, woman!
P.S. I was taught as a medic that +/- one degree was normal and not to be considered a fever, but that depends upon what your “normal” is.
I have no ability to warm myself; does that count? Winter is miserable for me; evening usually finds me in my recliner with my electric blanket. I only turn on the AC in the car when the kids are with me because they get hot easily. My husband is always hot. I can’t even put flannel sheets on the bed in winter because he gets miserable. I have to sleep in very warm pajamas with socks (oh, socks in the summer as well, plus two comforters).
The only times I was ever comfortable in winter was pregnancy. I even got overheated in the summer.
Hot flashes might turn out to be not so bad for me when I start getting them.
I keep my BP at 110/70 - 100/60 through diet (i.e. “take lots of salt and none of that lo-so stuff”). The lowest I’ve been measured at while still vertical was 90/40, the pharmacist was used to seeing the other end of the spectrum and wanted to call an ambulance. My grandfather once clocked in at something like 20/5; his doctor-and-brother informed him saying “I have bad news, you’re clinically dead” “ah, I guess that explains why I feel like shit.”
Haha! IIRC (keep in mind this was ~20 years ago) my BP at the health fair thing was around 70/40. My normal BP is low enough that when I was 6 months pregnant with my daughter and the car shit out on us 2 miles from the hospital, forcing me to walk 2 miles to get to my appointment and my BP was up to 100/70 my midwife almost had me admitted. I had to explain to her that I’d just walked 2 miles because the car shit out on us, and she then lectured me about calling her if that happens again, I’d almost given her a heart attack. All of my vitals run so low that we’ve often joked that I am really a vampire (of course, the fact that I am so pale I am damn near fluorescent makes the joke even funnier).
Dude - are you me?? You don’t by chance have a small superfluous third nipple on the left side, do you?
This is my normal too. Someone (a nurse, I think) once told me that even if my normal temperature was low, a temp of 99 did not mean I had a fever. I don’t get that. Wouldn’t a fever just be a certain amount above your normal temp?
I also run a little low…usually around 97. I am hot all the time, sweat a lot, and have a red face. People have always told me I have warm hands all my life.
All of that sort of runs in my family.
When I have a fever, I can usually tell as soon as I am around 99 degrees. My oldest brother never believed I was sick enough until my fever was at least 102. He had to cover my chores, so I am sure he didn’t want to admit I was sick. But I always felt hot and sickish, even when my temp was just a degree or two over my normal.
My highest temp was when I had pneumonia in fifth grade. It got up to 105. I was talking all crazy about getting salt across a desert when my parents finally rushed me to the hospital.
I run low too, usuallly (a couple of degrees). I don’t feel cold much (I know I’m cold, but it just doesn’t bother me), but I have no tolerance for heat. As far as fevers go, if I’m up 3 or 4 degrees, it feels like a fever, even if that technically is only a little over the average human body temp.
The only time the cold affects me is when I’m trying to sleep - my feet just won’t warm up on their own.
I’m another 97-er, though it really can vary. I’m never lower than 97.2 or so, but my normal is never above 98.0.
A fever for me is 99.5. What is 101 and making DeathLlama miserable would cause me equal suffering at 99.5. (That seems to be the magic number–if I feel feverish and take the temp, that’s where it is.)
I’ve had a fever over 100 twice in 12 years. Once, it was 103 because I was severely dehydrated after a wicked case of food poisoning (“everybody out, two exits, no waiting!”), and the other time I had a miserable flu that gave me a temp of :eek: 100.8. Oh, the horror!
Makes sense why I always need to be covered in blankets and have icey extremities–while DeathLlama is a freakin’ radiator.
But 95? Y’all are FREAKS.
WAG–does lower body temp have anything to do with metabolic rates? Hubby burns calories in a way all of us should hate him for (he just made a batch of cinnamon rolls and ate 5 1/2 of them–I had the remaining 1/2 and feel terribly guilty), and he’s still 6’4" wearing pants with 34" waistbands.