Overheating & Sun Sensitivity

[epiphiny]

It's 11am here (Auckland NZ) and it's already 31 degrees outside and I feel like there are red ants crawling all over my scalp stinging me. I have currently got a frozen gel pack strapped to my forehead, it's straight out of the freezer and truly it feels like it is luke warm.

It's like I have no thermal control anymore.  I have always been a heat lover, but now I am becoming a sun hater. My skin has become radioactive and I have no cooling system...

Anyone else experience this and have any tips other than sit under a cold shower for the entirety of the daylight hours.  The other option is lie on the bed naked with the fan blowing directly on me, covered in wet towels, I guess. Don't have air-con but that wouldn't work anyway as it makes my skin itch and crawl.

Itch and crawl, that about sums it up....

This treatment is a life lesson in dealing with discomfort and attaining grace under fire...

[CMcH]

I am totally with you on the itchy and scratchy show. Night and day sweats with fire ants under my skin with no ability to control my body temp. I have tried everything over the counter and prescription to no avail. I find though that when it feels like it is you can't take it anymore it gets better. Also when you feel you have a handle on it it gets worse!
I thought it was the sun/heat in the summer but now in the winter having the heater on dries my skin too.

[bajawoman]

my climate here sounds like yours  
I want to warn you against the wet towel under the fan thing  
I did that for years to be able to sleep in the summer getting in the shower with a big tee shirt then straight to bed with a fan on the deck or wet the sheets over the mattress  totally and sleep with fan  and it is really not good rhuematism may develop later but it is cooling for sure
try an ice pack at the back of your neck  and on the bottom of your feet may cool you off and better for you
take care baja

[sunqueen]

Oh baby!  I understand, truly. I live in the tropics and went from the sunqueen to the sunloather (which is temporary - it has to be!)

Never found anything that helped other than staying cool.

[GreatBird]

I so wish I could help. I haven't got a clue except that it might be good to apply cold to your pulse points. Also the back of the neck is good.

Of course you are hydrated?

And, as to your second question, my hot flashes were all of short duration and very intense. It doesn't sound like that's what you're doing.

[epiphiny]

31 degrees Celsius = 87.8 Fahrenheit.

Frankly, that's not that hot.  I've been in the Arizona desert in temps over 100F and I didn't feel like this.

And it's only 45% humidity.

I may implode any moment, my own personal Chernobyl....