My Hands are Cold

What the hell? For the past couple of months my hands have been icy, and sometimes my feet as well. I thought only chicks got cold fingers/toes, I’ve certainly never been cold in temperatures above freezing. Sometimes I’ll wear gloves if it’s below zero or I’m throwing snowballs, but it’s been in the 50’s and 60’s dagnabbit!

Is this another of the joys of middle age? The aches and pains I can get used to, but this is damn annoying!

Or maybe it’s a tumor.

IT’S NOT A TUMOR!

Our office is freezing today, so my hands are cold, too. My boss just popped is head into my office, and he was wearing a jacket. So it’s not just me.

My hands are always ridiculously warm, everybody else’s hands seem cold to me.

Actually, it’s conceivable that it is a medical problem with poor circulation. Wouldn’t hurt to ask your M.D. next time you visit.

Silly, it’s from warming them on the ice cream.

Seriously? Maybe I should eat a box of salt to get my blood pressure up…

:slight_smile: I wondered why the ice cream wasn’t melting.

Well, you know what they say - “Cold hands, warm heart”, right? Maybe, like the Grinch, my heart grew 3 sizes that day.

Of course not. It’s lupus.

waits for it

This is a pain in the ass. My hands are usually cold, too, and I can’t activate the touchless controls they seem to keep installing around the workplace. I can’t get ice and water out of the dispenser in the cafeteria, can’t turn the water on in the restrooms, and so forth.

Whenever we appear in thermographic images, I’m the guy whose hands are black or invisible.

Next time your with your doctor ask him about Raynaud’s Syndrome. A coworker of mine developed it in his mid 50’s. His hands would get extremely cold and painful. In bad cases the hands turn blue.

It’s NEVER lupus!

Happy to oblige :stuck_out_tongue:

Gadzooks! Secondary Raynaud’s Syndrome lists several possible causes that could well be relevant, as well as some symptoms that sound familiar. And I see that Primary Raynaud’s Syndrome occurs in approximately 1/3 of patients with systemic lupus.

Jeez, my migraine med is a vasodilator, maybe I should investigate alternate treatment with the aid of my physician.

Thank you. :smiley:

(My next door neighbour used to have something like this. Unless she had some horrible deathly disease she never talked about, she chalked it up to bad circulation. Is there any way you can test for that?)

I always have cold hands/feet unless I’m pregnant, whereupon I radiate the heat of the summer sun for nine months.

Get pregnant! :slight_smile: