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Ever since I was 12, my body temperature has been about 3 degree's lower then the norm (98.6). So just recently, my mom put me on this stuff called Selenium. It's actually working and bringing up my body temperature, but as a result i've lost about 10 lbs. I'm down to 105lbs., and I don't want to go any lower then 105, but I'm afraid if I stop taking the selenium I'll be cold all the time again. I've only been on this stuff for about 2 weeks. Please I really think I need some professional help. Was taking the selenium a really bad idea?

SELENIUM is a Homeopathic remedy and below are its provings taken from the Homeopathic Materia Medica . Homeopathy treats the patient not the disease so the medicine which suits your symptoms the most is the cure for you please read the symptoms of SELENIUM and decide for yourself if you have the symptoms of it or not :-

SELENIUM METALLICUM
The Element Selenium
(SELENIUM)

Selenium is a constant constituent of bones and teeth.

Marked effects on the genito-urinary organs, and often indicated in elderly men, especially for prostatitis and sexual atony. Great debility; worse, heat. Easy exhaustion, mental and physical, in old age. Debility after exhausting diseases.

Mind.--Lascivious thoughts, with impotency. Mental labor fatigues. Extreme sadness. Abject despair, uncompromising melancholy.

Head.--Hair falls out. Pain over left eye; worse walking in sun, strong odors and tea. Scalp feels tense. Headache from tea drinking.

Throat.--Incipient tubercular laryngitis. Hawking and raising transparent lumps of mucus every morning. Hoarseness. Cough in morning, with expectoration of bloody mucus. Hoarseness of singers. Much clear, starchy mucus (Stann).

Stomach.--Desire for brandy and other strong drink. Sweetish taste. Hiccough and eructations after smoking. After eating, pulsation all over, especially abdomen.

Abdomen.--Chronic liver affections; liver painful, enlarged, with fine rash over liver region. Stool constipated, hard and accumulated in rectum.

Urinary.--Sensation in the tip of urethra as if a biting drop were forcing its way out. Involuntary dribbling.

Male.--Dribbling of semen during sleep. Dribbling of prostatic fluid. Irritability after coitus. Loss of sexual power, with lascivious fancies. Increases desire, decreases ability. Semen thin, odorless. Sexual neurasthenia. On attempting coition, penis relaxes. Hydrocele.

Skin.--Dry, scaly eruption in palms, with itching, Itching about the ankles and folds of skin, between fingers. Hair falls out from brows, beard, and genitals. Itching about finger-joints and between fingers; in palms. Vesicular eruption between fingers (Rhus; Anac). Seborrh艙a oleosa; comedones with an oily surface of the skin; alopecia. Acne.

Extremities.--Paralytic pains in small of back in the morning. Tearing pain in hands, at night.

Sleep.--Sleep prevented by pulsation in all vessels, worse abdomen. Sleepless until midnight, awakens early and always same hour.

Modalities.--Worse, after sleep, in hot weather, from Cinchona, draught of air, coition.

Relationship.--Incompatible: China; Wine.

Compare: Agnus; Calad; Sulphur; Tellur; Phosph acid.

Antidotes: Ign; Puls.

if you need professional help, go see a doctor, you are going to get opinions here. my temperature has always ran a degree or 2 low , it has never bothered me. maybe it's all in your head and you need a psychiatrist not a doctor.

Selinium is not needed.Low body temperature is actually good. It is a nature`s way of evolving for continuous warming.
Tr belladona also increases body temperature but its side effects are dilatation of pupils,blurring of vision,dryness of mouth and of course increase in body temperature.

1st do you know that the natural temp of the body is lowest in the evening and higher at night. was your body temp low due to anemia or other blood disorder. Do you have any other medical problems?A weights loss of 10 lbs in two weeks is significant and may or may not be related to selenium. Did you ask your doctor before taking selenium, do you know what it is and what it's mechanism of action is? If you have a mistrust for traditiopnal medicine ,go to a doctor of osteopath ( they view the body as a whole) Do not self medciate, you could cause major damage to your body. I am a nurse and I witness first hand the well intentioned medicinal mishaps of others. Go to a doctor that is my advice.

No problem with the Selenium. But I think you're barking at the wrong tree. Try to check your Thyroid panel (T3, T4, TSH). You might have some hormonal problems.

lower bod temperature may be due to ur thyroid hormone disturbence get it checked , i do not think taking selenium is a good idea

If you feel fine and it's just the cold that bothers you, why not try wearing clothing with infrared in it. It reflects back the heat you release until it reaches your bodies resting temperature and then it will start passing the heat through. You stay comfortable. I was amazed when I tried it. I wore them on a rather hot day and I didn't even sweat. The fabric is incredibly soft too.
http://www.yourwellnesshome.net/thermowe...

On the average, human body temperature has decreased. 98.6 is no longer the norm. You should have a blood panel run to see what your levels are. What if it's your thyroid acting up? I lost a good friend because she didnt take care of her thyroid condition.

If you have had your thyroid checked and everything is fine you may have an estrogen dominance problem. Also if you think it may be thyroid take kelp---lots of it..it will not hurt you.

I have included below a link to a web page that has the syptoms of estrogen dominance. I personally think that if you have a normal thyroid then this will fix it...to much estrogen mimics thryroid problems..... the answer is Natural Progesterone Cream. I have included also a link for that.