Internal Heat

Internal Heat
Good day Doc,
I have been following up with some of the problems people present to you in your health column in the Sun news paper, And so many of them have thanked you for your answer and solution to them with regards to their health problem. Please Doc I will like to know what causes internal body heat especially after sex? I have gone through AIDS test and its negative. I have only one sex partner, I do not smoke nor drink, Am just 28 and am being bothered. Please I will be glad if you send a piece of your reply to my mail box.
Thanks and God bless you.
Tooya Tant'Oloun, Abeokuta, Ogun 

Dear Tooya,

Let me first of all congratulate you that you have only one partner and you are HIV Negative. Let me also advise that your best bet is to marry as soon as possible so that you can have the safest sex-- we do not know what your only one partner gets up to behind your back. Now to your main query. The key to answering you satisfactorily is found in the phrase "especially after sex" which means not always after sex but many times after sex. So, we see that, very likely, it has nothing to do with the sex but it's just that it has happened to happen that way in the past. Internal heat must be defined as the feeling of hotness in the body without any evidence of the thermometer recording. Have you taken your temperature to find out what it says at such times or you simply assumed it would read? If you feel hot and the thermometer is reading and recording increases in your temperature, that is not internal heat ; it is fever. If however, you feel hot without thermometer evidence, what you have, truly, is internal heat. Internal heat is simply another of the possible manifestations of Somatisation Syndrome -- a common complaint in cases of anxiety neurosis in these parts. Somatisation occurs this way --when your mind is under stress -- maybe there are conflicts, worries and uncertainties that bother you but you suppress in your mind, the mind uses the avenue of these feelings--such as internal heat; crawling sensation; thumping or pulsating sensation, things moving all over the body, and things jumping from one part of the body to the other to make you sit up and realize there is something wrong that you need to correct. This is the Somatisation Syndrome -- patients whose actual diagnosis is Anxiety Neurosis manifesting and signaling their psychological ill--health as bodily symptoms when there is absolutely nothing wrong with their bodies. These symptoms are real and treatable (in this context this means we can give you medicines that will remove them) but they are not because the body is malfunctioning; it is because the mind is facing some hidden challenges. See a psychologist/psychiatrist who will treat you according to findings as to what is the cause or root -- in your mind , of course -- of the feeling of heat without any temperature rise. If, however, it is only after sex with the lady you feel the heat; that's another kettle of fish. Send to me if it is so, and we'll cross that bridge when we get there.

Cheers
Dr. Caleb Bibbi Oluranti
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