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hmm … body temperature

March 2, 2006 at 4:30 pm · Filed under random

Now that I own a thermometer, it has become my newest toy. This will probably be more than anyone ever wanted to know about my body temperature and health, but I find it interesting, and this is afterall my goddamn blog, so shove it and deal.

I woke up this morning and took my temperature: 96.2. WTF??? I was glad the thermometer no longer read 101.8, but isn’t 96.2 a bit TOO low? Noon, I take my temperature: 96.8. Umm … okay. 4pm (just now), I take my temperature again: 96.5. So um… yeah okay.

Google google google “body temperature” later, and here are the things that the googlized internet had to say:

“There is a range of 97.5 to 98.9 of “typical” body temperatures measured under the tongue.”
- I guess I am “atypical”; my mom always did tell me I was special …

“Perhaps 1 in 20 people have temperatures even a bit lower or higher.”
- Does 1 whole degree count as being “a bit” lower?

“The elderly have lower temperatures, perhaps because metabolism slows with age.”
- This must mean I’m mature for my age. Though I thought I had a high metabolism?

“When back pain is accompanied by fever, serious conditions such as a kidney infection; bone, joint or disk infection; tumor; or bloodstream infection come to mind”
- CRAP!! That sounds really serious!!! My neck and back were INDEED sore yesterday … hmm …..

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5 Comments »

Philip Baldwin wrote @ March 6th, 2006 at 5:53 pm

Good, you’re better kinda…………I kinda always knew you were cold!

Ted Hannegan wrote @ March 22nd, 2006 at 11:48 am

Check your Thyroid. It’s running low. You may need just a low dose called Armor Thyroid. I’m experiencing the same ‘cold’ body temps and 96.5 isn’t normal. Experiencing hair loss??…Thyroid~

Kaity wrote @ April 13th, 2006 at 8:57 pm

Hi Shan — I just found out about your blog. Anyway, my temp is really low, too! But the doctor (well, nurse) told me it was totally normal. Of course, I’m always freezing cold (yesterday it was practically a summer evening, and I was wearing two jackets …) … hmm, well, if you figure out what’s wrong with you, lemme know, so I can get cured, too! –Kaity

Theresa c. wrote @ July 3rd, 2006 at 7:22 am

Hi Kaity, I wake up in the morning, really fatigued, with atemperature of 96.8. The doctor checked my Thyroid, I have not yet gotten the results. My back always hurts, and I’m having hair loss too. I wish I knew what it was too.

Conjured Activism » Blog Archive » harbor cruise wrote @ September 9th, 2006 at 5:15 pm

[…] *EDIT* the headache wasn’t from the glasses. I was actually running a 101F fever yesterday. Regular readers should all know about my below-normal body temperature, which makes 101 seem even more grave :( […]