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Originally Posted by RizzyKing
Traduk no offence m8 but i don't know anyone that doesn't feel warm wrapped up in a quilt and i have fluctuating BP and heart rate due to the amount of meds i am on but five mins in a 14 tog quilt usually ensures i am warm if not hot. Look i am not saying it's ideal but no one has a reason to be freezing these days and having central heating on all the time whilst nice is a luxury that only the last couple\three generations have had available to them how did people manage before that.
Money is tight all over it isn't just energy bills it is the increasing cost of food and all things we have to buy to live there just isn't the money to have it all as we want so we have to make cuts and adaptations where we can.
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If I recall correctly the life expectancy of a male of a couple of generations back was about 62 years old. If you go back any further generations then it enters the domain of medical ignorance, poverty, poor nutrition and environment plus diseases like Polio and Tuberculosis. To give an actuarial taken from 1962 when I had to make pension decisions and particularly regarding "Widows and Orphans" the drawing time for a male pensioner in the company scheme I was entering (civil service terms) was 2 weeks with a retirement age of 60. Of course that was an average with a heck of a lot of minus numbers that never drew a penny. Only 50 years back the world was a different place and one that was far from pleasant.
When I was 2.5 stone heavier a 14 Tog duvet was too much for me and I cooked. Now it barely does the job. If I was unique it would be purely down to my unique characteristics but peers of about the same age have laughingly stated or more aptly their wives that they also wear thermal socks when it is cold
. It is possibly unique to BP meds and Statins but cold extremities is a side effect of both.
We are all different but I think that it is important for people to realise that one person's discomfort with just feeling cold can easily be another person's pain. Statins affect muscles, joints and tendons in some people (I am one) and if suffering pain is the result of cold, my experience is somewhat different to a younger person who may remark that they feel cold. If they felt as though they had been whacked across both upper arms with a lump of 4X2 they might get close to what I feel from cold.
It is not personal but a general truism of human nature. We all tend to make judgements based on personal experiences and rarely bother to think or even ask what others may experience because we take it for granted that we are all the same. When I used to visit my parents or father in law in their later lives, entering their homes felt like entering a sauna without steam. With the passing of time, I now know why.
I firmly believe that heat is an essential requirement for older age longevity and lack of affordability will cause major health problems and possibly reverse decades of good.
Other than the fact that my doctor likes my cholesterol levels less than I do (or he did until they went down to current silly low levels) I am generally and fortunately very healthy but whether its Statins or being at my 30 year old weight which reduces cold tolerance I am generally very healthy even though this lot reads like Victor Meldrew on crutches.