AS an addendum to this thread, for the edification of anyone reading.

The newbie featured has thanked me again for his experience, because after pushing his physician he has seen a specialist who diagnosed him with a staph infection and a reaction to some combination of the medications he's been taking. He had a rash that was quite extensive that he's been living with for months. It turns out that now that he is being treated for it instead of being repeatedly told by doctors that it is just psoriasis and handed topicals, he is feeling much better and finds that he has been warmer overall because now that his skin is getting back to normal his temperature regulation has improved a LOT. And now he is being treated for a potentially very serious condition he had no idea he had.