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It is, supposedly, 66 degrees outside. The door is open. The house is FREEZING. There's clearly something wrong here (and it's not that the insulation is just too good, because the upper floor heats up monstrously during the summer), but I don't know what to do about it. Also I'm almost certain the heat isn't working, and even more certain I can't deal with getting someone out here to fix it for at least a week while I get my brain back together post-vacation. Cold never used to bother me until a few years ago; I think I underwent some sudden hormonal shift and now I hate it and am much more sensitive to it than I used to be. But I still hate being too hot even more, and most of all I love being warm in the midst of cold. So my life is difficult. At the moment the difficulty is getting myself out of my fleece robe, out of the sunbeam, into the shower and off to do something useful. I sunbathed for a little while and felt so good and ready to deal with life, and then I shifted two feet away from the window and all my resolve disappeared.

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Being hypothyroid makes you sensitive to cold - if you've suddenly become less cold-tolerant it might be worth checking out at your next doctor's visit, if you can. I'm a very warm person (my whole family is) but when I was hypothyroid I finally felt what everyone else complained about!