For the last 10 years, I've been on the hot side, daring my husband to turn on the furnace in the winter and freezing out my secretary at work. Since VSG, my how the table has turned! Here in the tropics with the air turned to "meat locker," I actually have to keep a sweater on the back of my chair at work and wrap up in it when I start to shiver. Paybacks HAVE been hell. Am I the only one?

I was just thinking about this today! Someone at work said it was so cold in the store and I thought 'Yeah right, I'm sweating!' It got me to wondering if I'd ever be cold in 74 degrees.

Since I had surgery I am freezing all the time which is a pain since I live in Alaska. I have always been on the hot side too but since the surgery I wear layers all the time and have extra blankets on my side of the bed. It can be 90 degrees and I am comfortable now where use to I would have been dying. I am now trying to talk my husband into moving to Arizona.

Boy at over two years out I still remember how cold I was. I was sleeved on mid-may and I ran the heater, bundled up and used the gas fireplace. No one would stay in a room with me long because they started roasting! One good trick is to put your blanket in the dryer for a few minutes then quickly bundle up. I drank a lot of calorie free Hot drinks too. It does go away eventually.

Lynda

I am cold most of the time except when I am having these raging hot flashes that seem to have doubled in the number of times they occur since my surgery. So I go from freezing to hot as hades all day long. I am a mess! Hopefully this will stabilize soon!

I was freezing the first 6 weeks after my surgery -- and my surgery was in mid-May! It's now August and I no longer have to wear sweat pants and sweat shirts to bed, but I still wear socks. Feet always cold. Great change from always being the hottest one in any room.

I suspect it's because of blood pressure. My pressure was always high; now it is normal and I am weaning off my blood pressure meds.

Still waiting to feel cold...

Yep, definitely colder. I've also noticed that it takes me longer get hot outside. For example, we were recently in Yellowstone and did quite a bit of walking. I barely ever broke a sweat, even though the temps were in the high 80s/low 90s - and this was when I was MOVING, not just sitting somewhere. Yes, I could feel that the air temp was hot, but I personally wasn't overheated. (And this was wearing jeans and 3/4 to long sleeve shirts as we were touring on the Harley.)

I'm always cold now!

I'm cold and loving it :-) I used to be hot ALL the time. Spring, summer, fall and winter. Living in Fl we don't get much cold weather. But ever since my surgery I need to have blankets on the bed and socks on my feet. It's the weirdest thing. And the other great thing is I don't instantly start sweating when I step outside. It takes a bit then I sweat but not like before.

As Lynda states above, the cold does indeed vanish after awhile. I remember being cold until about post op month 7. Boy do I remember how cold it was, needing a space heater in my home office and later wearing hoodies and gloves doing normal things like grocery shopping or walking around the mall. I must have looked strange wearing gloves inside. Today I do say that I am not so cold any longer. It just kind of dissipated at some point; it is hard to point to a precise time when the body started to be used to loss of insulation.

It's pretty normal with the loss of large amounts of weight. It happened to me when I lost 115 from 09-11. All of a sudden, I was perfectly happy in long sleeve shirts and hoodies when before, I would have a fan on at my desk all the time.

I still get cold at 12 weeks out, especially at night. Not as bad as it was just after surgery. I believe its due to multiple factors such as anesthesia (initially), then metabolism as your body tries to regulate itself.