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Dec. 14th, 2020 09:24 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
unicorndukehmmm
I can't tell if it is simply the type of heating here in Isocation House or potentially lack of sleep but my forehead has been warm since Friday. I don't feel super cold or super warm other than my feet being cold which is normal. The heating system is floor vents that kick on every 15 mins or so, blowing a lot of hot air at once, then stops, and it cools down for a bit then they kick on again.
I have had this happen at home before and I've taken my temperature then and it was always normal. It generally comes from bad sleep days. I haven't been sleeping super great here, so it could be that.
But I'm going to pick up a thermometer tonight, just in case. I mean, I also just might not know what my forehead feels like normally and now I'm touching it a whole lot. I suspect it's actually caused by me being normal temp when the temperature cools down and then being too warm while the heat is blowing and then thinking I'm too warm. I've felt normal when I've been outside so I suspect it may be the heating.
Okay, probably just overreacting but thermometer tonight anyway.
I can't tell if it is simply the type of heating here in Isocation House or potentially lack of sleep but my forehead has been warm since Friday. I don't feel super cold or super warm other than my feet being cold which is normal. The heating system is floor vents that kick on every 15 mins or so, blowing a lot of hot air at once, then stops, and it cools down for a bit then they kick on again.
I have had this happen at home before and I've taken my temperature then and it was always normal. It generally comes from bad sleep days. I haven't been sleeping super great here, so it could be that.
But I'm going to pick up a thermometer tonight, just in case. I mean, I also just might not know what my forehead feels like normally and now I'm touching it a whole lot. I suspect it's actually caused by me being normal temp when the temperature cools down and then being too warm while the heat is blowing and then thinking I'm too warm. I've felt normal when I've been outside so I suspect it may be the heating.
Okay, probably just overreacting but thermometer tonight anyway.
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Date: 2020-12-14 03:39 pm (UTC)Quantified measurement for the reduction of doubt!
And may no ill thing arise.
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Date: 2020-12-15 04:28 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-12-15 05:56 pm (UTC)Excellent, consistent!
There's at least one research project out there trying to figure out why modern body temperatures are about a degree lower than the nineteenth century measurements that give us 98.6 F as the expected average value. It doesn't look like it's the instruments (some of which were available in museums!); it looks like people are less inflamed due to lower parasite loads. So it could well not be wrong as well as being consistent.
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Date: 2020-12-16 12:35 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-12-16 12:47 am (UTC)I am all for lower parasite loads!
A thermometer is a useful thing to have; I ran around online trying to find an analog one when the pandemic hit and had to get clever.
And I'll bet entirely deciles of the population now have pulse oximeters who had no idea what that was this time last year.