Body temperature low?

[Grace360]

My body temp used to be a perfect 98.6. Nowadays, it's at a steady 97.4. I'm cold literally all the time. Chilly despite the layers. Sometimes I take my temp and it's even at 97, sometimes even hits the high 96s. I just worry about this a lot.. I dunno. I still plan on making an appointment soon enough, to see what this is. They tested my thyroid and said I was fine.

Does anyone else just have a low body temp? Is this just my new normal? I guess it doesn't help that chills/low body temp is a symptom of other more serious things, like sepsis, so. Trying to ease out of the sepsis worry.. but it's hard not to when I'm so chilly all the time.

 

[JNervous]

Hi there, I normally have a low body temperature. Usually 97.2. It really does very person-to-person. i’ve been this way all my life. They usually rule out thyroid, otherwise you just run on the cold side.

 

[chickentender]

Mine is usually 97.6-96.6. If you had sepsis you would be desperately ill. I mean the kind of ill where you don't wonder if it's anxiety versus being sick. There would be no question of whether or not you were having a serious issue.

 

[Ari]

My normal temperature is around 96.8. If it gets higher, I feel uncomfortable like when you have a fever.

The «normal » temperature is an average, not the only possible healthy option. It’s perfectly normal (it must) for your body to change from day to day, from second to second, in order to function properly.

Also, your temperature can get lower if your on a thinner side and/or if you consume too few calories (even if it’s just for one day.)