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!
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.
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.
(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?)