@isaacson72 

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isaacson72

Inability to control body temperature?

I'm just curious if this is something you all deal with? Not sure if it's MS related or not. From time to time, I get very cold, and can't warm myself back up. I sleep under an electric blanket on high, wearing long johns, thick socks & a sweatshirt, and don't sweat (not every night, just the nights I get this cold). I don't seem to get overheated very often (although it does happen, but usually only on hot days). And sometimes when I get that cold, I seem to spend 2 hours going to the bathroom every 5 minutes (and not just a trickle - I have no idea where all that fluid comes from). It seems to happen more at night than any other time. It happened just the other day, and it was 15*C that night, had been about 30* during the day. I shouldn't have gotten so cold. I've had my thyroid checked often, it's functioning fine. It just dawned on me last week that maybe it's MS related? I googled, saw there is some correlation between MS and the inability to control body temperature but it doesn't seem to be a foregone conclusion. Curious if any of you have this problem as well?
@Sonia1984

Very common I constantly deal with being cold when everyone else is fine. It's due to a lesion on my hypothalamus which functions to regulate our temperature, my hypothalamus is now broken. I usually always have hot bottles available and I layer clothing a lot as sometimes I wake up hot or I am the opposite freezing cold.

@Stumbler

@isaacson72 , yes, the body's thermostat can be affected by MS. This could be a specific lesion within the brain, which inhibits this function. And/or it could be a lesion further down the Central Nervous System (CNS), which prevents certain nerve endings from communicating effectively with the brain, i.e. if the brain does not know what's going on at the nerve endings, it can't manage the correct response, e.g. temperature regulation.