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What is your normal temperature?

halcyon

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Fluctuates between 98.6 and 101 daily, using an ear thermometer. Lately it hasn't been dropping below 99 very often.

I don't think there's much research on body temperature in ME. The ICC primer though says:

3. Loss of thermostatic stability: e.g. subnormal body temperature, marked diurnal fluctuations; sweating episodes, recurrent feelings of feverishness with or without low grade fever, cold extremities
 
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I'm also 97.5F (36.4C) pretty much all the time.

Though that's from using a gun thermometer on my forehead. It's designed for use in an airport or similar for screening people who have cooties, and it starts beeping wildly if it detects a fever. That beeping scared the crap out of me the first time I hit 100F (38C) :p
 

A.B.

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It always seems to be a little on the low side. 36.2 °C last time it was measured. But that could also be due to poor precision of the thermometer or me doing something wrong.

I do notice some fluctuations. I get warm quickly with exercise, and get uncomfortably cold afterwards.

Also, my clothes never seem right temperature wise. Either too cold, or too hot.

I don't have episodes of fever.
 

sarah darwins

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I only recently started tracking my temperature. My readings are consistently between 35.8 - 36.1 C, but I've only used one thermometer (an Omron used in the armpit). I probably need to check it against a doctor's reading at some point.
 

ScottTriGuy

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96.1 in the mornings (felt painfully cold).

Started synthroid, now 96.6 in the mornings (little pain / cold).
 

Old Bones

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For the first 20 years with ME, my temperature was in a range from 98.9 to 101 F. Thereafter (post menopause), it switched from being a low-grade fever, to slightly sub-normal -- these days usually somewhere between 97 and 98. I'd already assumed a hormonal effect due to consistent monthly fluctuations over a period of two decades. The dramatic change after menopause seemed to confirm that belief.
 

JohnCB

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England
I'm using an old clinical thermometer so it is in Fahrenheit rather than Celsius which is more common in these parts. It was bought when I set up home with my first wife all those years ago. Mostly I am a boring 98.4 to 98.6. There are times when I feel a little feverish without being ill (aprt from ME) in other ways and then it can be 98.8 to 99.2. According to ny converter 98.6 is 37.0degC
 

Gingergrrl

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Has that been all your life or a recent development?

Neither! All my childhood I had tonsilitis and fevers and I had normal infections/fevers when I was sick through 2012. In 2012 when I got mono, I had a fever for over three weeks straight. However after my final infection in Jan 2013, I never got another fever and ran on the low side. Then it just stayed around 97.4 the last few years. I know it now runs low b/c of thyroid/Hashimoto's but I suspect also b/c I am on the autoimmune side in general. When it occasionally hits 98.0 or above, it is like a fever for me.
 

Richard7

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Australia
I measured it 1st thing every day for several months last year and it varied from about 34.7 - 35.4 most mornings. This was under the armpit.

I understood that this was pretty normal for CFS: the doctor who asked me to do it was not surprised.
 

TigerLilea

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I just took my temperature a few minutes ago and discovered it is 99 F which for me is high. I've had a cold the past few days but don't feel feverish at all. It normally is around 97.5 ish most days. According to one doctor I saw years ago everyone's normal is different. There is no exact number.
 

Mij

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I measured it 1st thing every day for several months last year and it varied from about 34.7 - 35.4 most mornings. This was under the armpit.

I understood that this was pretty normal for CFS: the doctor who asked me to do it was not surprised.

The M.E doctor I saw many years ago told me the same thing.

My temperature drops the day after I overdo.