Anxiety and Low Grade Fever?

[AnxiousBlue]

I have suffered from anxiety for as long as I can remember. Right now I am having a pretty bad episode of fear that I am sick. I have noticed that my temperature will increase like clock work whenever my wife goes off for business or I have to go off somewhere for an extended period of time. It will shoot up to right about 99.4. Right now its been in the 99's for the past two days. I cant say that I feel any symptoms of sickness, but I am freaking out that something might be wrong with. I take my temp like 30 times a day. Has anyone else experienced situations where you anxiety can lead to your body temp slightly increasing?

 

[Concernedgal]

Living in a family full of nurses..I learned that when you run a fever....it's due to inflammation. I bet if you got a blood test to test for your white blood cell count...it would be a little high because inflammation causes your immune to react as if your getting sick. So everytime your stressed... you run a small fever because stress causes you to produce cortisol and cortisol causes inflammation and inflammation cause your white blood cell count to rise therefore causing a low grade fever whenever your stressed and anxious. Everyone is different with there anxiety symptoms. .you have low grade fevers. .this is your norm. Just take a Tylenol and calm down.
Concernedgal

 

[janemariesayed]

Living in a family full of nurses..I learned that when you run a fever....it's due to inflammation. I bet if you got a blood test to test for your white blood cell count...it would be a little high because inflammation causes your immune to react as if your getting sick. So everytime your stressed... you run a small fever because stress causes you to produce cortisol and cortisol causes inflammation and inflammation cause your white blood cell count to rise therefore causing a low grade fever whenever your stressed and anxious. Everyone is different with there anxiety symptoms. .you have low grade fevers. .this is your norm. Just take a Tylenol and calm down.
Concernedgal

Oh Wow! Thanks for this info, this explains why I get hot at times. I thought I was just hot bloodied or something, now I know when I'm having a hot one it's because I am stressed or have been stressed. I got totally stressed out the other day and then had to wash because I'd suddenly got sweaty under my arms. So this is true.

 

[janemariesayed]

I have suffered from anxiety for as long as I can remember. Right now I am having a pretty bad episode of fear that I am sick. I have noticed that my temperature will increase like clock work whenever my wife goes off for business or I have to go off somewhere for an extended period of time. It will shoot up to right about 99.4. Right now its been in the 99's for the past two days. I cant say that I feel any symptoms of sickness, but I am freaking out that something might be wrong with. I take my temp like 30 times a day. Has anyone else experienced situations where you anxiety can lead to your body temp slightly increasing?

Hi AnxiousBlue. It sounds like you have a fear of going out or of being on your own. Are you afraid your Wife won't come back for some reason or that something may happen to her? Or that something may happen to you if you are out for too long? I feel like that and I am a bit agoraphobic.

 

[Kelculator]

I get the low grade fever when I'm very anxious too. It doesn't happen often, but it happened to me before, and as others above suggested, it should be anxiety-related.

 

[janemariesayed]

It wasn't until about a year ago that I understood that anxiety comes with all sorts of pains and physical symptoms. I've actually felt a bit better since realising that.