Internal Thermostat

I'm pretty sure I wrote the following 11/22/10.  However, as I'm reviewing old posts, I found this was never published.  I think it's interesting to see where I was just a few years ago as compared to now. So, I'm gonna go ahead and publish this out of order.

It's that time of the year. Autumn. Fall.  Harvest.

I love Autumn! The beautiful colors, the leaves falling, the deer population moving around.  But I realized today just how bad they can be for me.  Its the cold and wind that are so hard on my body in Autumn.   I lay in bed this afternoon hoping for a nap.  Somehow as I lay there using this notebook pc I didn't realize that my legs were getting increasingly colder.  I don't know how they coulda gotten so cold!  So cold they were stinging!!! You know how it is when you go out in cold weather and your face stings?  That's what I feel sometimes all up and down my legs, or my arms. etc. And it's 69 degrees in the house! 

Do you have winters that are worse than others?  I afraid this one might be a bad one for me!  Sometimes, this is just during the changes of the seasons, sometimes it's for the whole season.  I remember in the early days of RSD, I would have my children, 10, 13 and 14 lay blanket upon blanket on me until I would finally start to warm up.  Then, they would have to start taking them off one by one till I only had one or two on me.  Because, if I left ALL 5 or 6 blankets on, I would overheat and then, the profuse sweating would begin! 

My opinion on this is that my internal thermostat is messed up.  If I get cold or chilled, it takes a whole pile of blankets to warm me up.  If I get overheated, I get profuse sweating, head to toes!  There's not much to do to cool off but sometimes drinking ice water will help.

Anyone else have these issues?