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2/29/2008 9:41:57 PM EDT
Anyone else have a consistently low body temperature?

Mine is usually around 97.0 degrees.  Sometimes a bit lower.  If it gets over 98 degrees, I feel feverish.  
3/1/2008 4:22:30 AM EDT
[#1]
Typically ~97.4.
3/1/2008 5:48:12 AM EDT
[#2]
97.1 used to be my norm.  You may want to check into adrenal fatigue.  I had BF down to 9-9.5%, but took a lot of stimulants to get their and it basically put my metabolism in the crapper for about six months.
3/1/2008 6:02:54 AM EDT
[#3]
i would get checked by a endocrinologist, just to be safe there are a couple problem that can cause chronic low body temperature.  If that is your only symptoms then it is most likly nothing.  fatigue, overweight, ill often?
3/1/2008 6:09:20 AM EDT
[#4]
~97 deg here.
3/1/2008 5:50:24 PM EDT
[#5]
how are you taking the temperature.

You may just have poor circulation near the skin surface.
3/1/2008 9:11:48 PM EDT
[#6]

Quoted:
how are you taking the temperature.

You may just have poor circulation near the skin surface.


In the past, oral thermometer.  Switched to a ear thermometer a few days ago.

3/2/2008 7:15:52 PM EDT
[#7]
Get it checked to make sure there isn't something serious but if that checks out it's nothing to be concerned about.  Some of us run hot, some of us run cold.  98.6 degrees is just an average.
3/4/2008 11:18:16 AM EDT
[#8]
I'm usually in the low 97 range also.  Doc said it is within the normal range of variation.
3/4/2008 11:19:40 AM EDT
[#9]
98.6 is an average.

- 97.8 here
3/4/2008 11:30:05 AM EDT
[#10]
I know a gentleman whose normal body temp is around 87 degrees.
3/4/2008 3:50:24 PM EDT
[#11]
according to the literature 89.6 is full on hypothermia; shivering stops basic metabolism progressively slows down etc...at 82.4ish you die. secondary hypothermia is when a person as a lowered body temp due to medical reasons.  

one of the first rules of medicine is treat the patient not the machine, if they are 100% and  have a body temp of a frozen worm it may be their normal, weird but normal.
3/4/2008 7:23:05 PM EDT
[#12]

Quoted:
according to the literature 89.6 is full on hypothermia; shivering stops basic metabolism progressively slows down etc...at 82.4ish you die. secondary hypothermia is when a person as a lowered body temp due to medical reasons.  

one of the first rules of medicine is treat the patient not the machine, if they are 100% and  have a body temp of a frozen worm it may be their normal, weird but normal.


The guy I know, with the 87 degree temp, was backpacking through Northern Africa I believe, passed out, woke up in a foreign hospital with parts of organs missing

From what I remember, he had real bad Malaria or something of that sort, his normal body temp hasn't been the same since.
3/5/2008 3:10:12 AM EDT
[#13]
I consistently read at just under 97 degrees.
3/5/2008 3:45:57 PM EDT
[#14]
Me too. Check out Wilson's Syndrome. My temp was always normal until 4-5 years ago.
It now averages between 96.5-97. I've seen it as low as 95.1.