[Sonny1]

I will just start with that and I am sure you will all get it! Dang, those things urk me. The initial needle going in the front of my neck is bad enough, but then comes the juices being plunged through the tube through my veins AND I feel all of it sloooooowly trickling down my neck, shoulder and hopefully into my arm where it is supposed to go, which it didn't seem to do that today....AGAIN. So my whole chest/collarbone area is still numb from 10 am and it is now 5 pm. But I did get some eye drooping and that is a good sign of a successful block (they say).

Anyhow, I thought of some of you today regarding a prior thread about hand, body temp's and getting things out of the freezer and just holding cold things. Well, on my way to the injection I had my 8 oz. plastic orange juice bottle (which I never carry anything but my thermus cup with handle) and my hand was FREEZING. I seriously took 2-3 sips out of this bottle and drove thr remainder of the 15 minute drive with my hand right up against the heat vent!!! My poor mother was sweating because I had the heat blasting (even though she closed her vents).

So I have a question: Could it be possible that because we have a harder time feeling heat, that we have become extra super sensitive to cold which wouldn't even be considered "cold" to most people? EX: if an average person could feel a burn at 75 degrees and we don't feel it until 95 degrees, our internal thermostat is off so it takes so much more for us to "heat up or get comfortably warm" that something "normal cold" out of the fridge feels like it jsut came from antartic? I don't know, but that is how I feel. Like my showers have to be super hot, my heat in the house way higher than normal folks, so even luke warm water to me feels ice cold. Ignore my rant and craziness, it must be what they injected me with