Overheating during sex and other thermoregulation probs

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My "thermoneutral zone" seems to be displaced 5-10 degrees C from most people. Ideal indoor temperature for me would be 15C/59F by day and 10C/50F by night. I'll won't start putting on anything warmer than short-sleeve tops until it gets below freezing, and only really feel cold when sick. Once it warms to about 22C/72F, I am constantly overheated and sweating like crazy, unless there is a good breeze (or I'm swimming).

During vigourous activity, I have been known to sweat profusely even at -40 degrees.

Ideas:

avoid coverings such as sheets and blankets.

lay down a towel to absorb sweat.

have one or two water bottles nearby. add ice if desired. you could even use the ice for erotic play!

use a fan/heater to adjust the temperature. if you tend to overheat then maybe keep the room temperature cooler.

ventilate the room to prevent stuffiness.


remember: the body cools by the evaporating of sweat.

I may have had this issue with my FWB.

But it could be that I only recently lost my virginity, and had been so accustomed to masturbation.

I sympathise. I got rather hot my first time.

I've always preferred the cold. This last year, I started getting an even lower tolerance for heat. I started sweating profusely, and also started having hot flashes. I started visiting an acupuncturist, and, after about three months of visits, I am no longer sweating so much all the time. There is something to Chinese Medicine, no doubt!

My boyfriend has the overheating problem, so we tried doing it outside on the balcony, which helped.
I overheat if I am on antidepressants, with the added effect of not having a sexdrive.

I'm on Paxil, perhaps that could be contributing to things as well.

In general, not with sex, I have a lot of thermo-regulation issues. If everyone is dressed in coats, I have a T-shirt. If everyone is warm, I am shivering. ><
Never had huge problems in sex though. I think I get distracted.. O.O

I am the same way. I cannot sleep in a hot, stuffy room, especially during the summer, when it often gets over 100 degrees during the day.

I get overheated quite often and I feel it coming on like a hot wave as if I would be able to burn anything I touch. It happens to me during sex a lot. My girlfriend is usualy cold and when she puts the heater on I can't stand it or if she pulls the quilt over us I have to thow half of it off.

This happens to me too during sex and I believe it is called Hyperhidrosis. It is related to anxiety and not aspergers or sex. However since we are likely to be more anxious than most people during sex it explains the linkage.

I would get it after a job interview. My socks would be soaked through.

I'm exactly the same way, have been for the last 30 years, according to my mother, though I only realised it in elementary school.

SK4 wrote.

Been there done that a lot.


Weird thing is, my mother is exactly opposite. She's not really comfortable until the temperature is about 26 degrees C or above. I'm glad we don't have a thermostat, it would've exploded!

I almost never sweat; it takes a lot to get me sweaty. I am also usually colder than most people. However, whenever I am doing anything artistic, such as embroidering or illustration, and I am getting into the "zone", I start feeling like I have a sunburn all over my face and arms. People usually ask me if I am feeling OK and that I am red as a beet. No sweat, just amazing redness, heat and feeling like a bad sunburn. And it lasts for a long time.

During art college, I would start the day off being light olive, and end the day looking like a tomato.

Last week I was finishing my Halloween costume and my husband told me to check my face in the mirror. They joked around because it looked like I had just been in the sun, and my costume was to be a gypsy... "You are trying to go all out, even working on the sun tan!" It was funny.

But I still have no idea what triggers it. It's like something breaks inside me and off it goes. I am not in any medication; just the way I have always been. I wonder if it is really AS related as I never met anyone with this before.

My thermoregulator is really quite wonky too. I get overheated often during sex if I'm doing all the work.

One of my hobies is LRP. I'm very friendly with the paramedics who help out at my LRP system because they've saved my life before when I lost all thermoregulation control. I got overheated on a battlefield and wandered off and collapsed, thankfully having the sense to yell at the nearest person just before I did so. They spent over an hour cooling me down with water, ice packs in my armpits and had me hooked up to some kind of device that measured my heart rate and temperature. My memory of the event is dodgy unsurprisingly so I couldn't tell you what it was. They told me afterwards that my body temperature had got up to 42 degrees celcius and if they hadn't been able to cool me down as fast as they did they would have had to evacuate me by air ambulance to get me to the nearest hospital with a facility to deal with me fast enough to stop me getting brain damage.

That happened about a year and a half ago. These days, I'm really careful to keep an eye on how warm I'm feeling. thankfully my usual problem is feeling too cold and people are used to me wearing a wooly scarf in my office.

Lots of guys sweat a lot during sex. My husband gets soaking wet during sex from the sweat. It will even drip off of him on to me and he's NT. I don't get sweaty during sex though, and I have AS, so I don't know if that has anything to do with it or not, but a lot of guys are sweaty like that. I've talked about that with women I know when we are talking about sex and a lot of women like that, so I wouldn't worry about it if I were you. Some women get really turned on by it.

PaganMom

If this thread is purely about Thermoregulation issue then it's said to be a feature of Dyspraxia/DCD. because I also do suffer from it, unfortunately suffer much worse as my advancing age, have done much research on this.
I believe it's one of neurological deficits some of us have.
best person to ask, would be either a neuropsychiatrist or a neuro.

(have to say, my thermo reg issue has nothing to do with sex)

during summer, in so much heat, I tend to start to look totally ashen, facially gaunt really not functioning physically at all..am absolutely dreading another Summer..
on the other hand, I was told I have got a higher temperature otherwise. minor procedure I had last year was nearly not going ahead because of this high temperature.
(had a battery of blood tests of late with no abnormal results)
am due to see a neuro again since I was indicated for a spinal MRI this time just to be sure.

it's quite normal to have various neuro related issues in ASD since after all, ASD is a neuro developmental condition. some of us may have had various genetic predispositions for different things and added with environmental factors, things crop up particularly as we age, in other words, things I used to have in much milder forms when I was much younger, start to affect me more seriously in certain older age.

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