# My Hands are Cold **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 15, 2007, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-hands-are-cold/422805 "2007-10-15T17:22:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Bobotheoptimist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/919ad9/32.png) [@Bobotheoptimist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bobotheoptimist)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2007, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-hands-are-cold/422805/1 "2007-10-15T17:22:51Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![scout1222](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/34f0e0/32.png) [@scout1222](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scout1222)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2007, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-hands-are-cold/422805/2 "2007-10-15T17:34:22Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Dunawake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/85f322/32.png) [@Dunawake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dunawake)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2007, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-hands-are-cold/422805/3 "2007-10-15T17:42:07Z")
My hands are always ridiculously warm, everybody else’s hands seem cold to me. ---
**Author:** ![MLS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/919ad9/32.png) [@MLS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MLS)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2007, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-hands-are-cold/422805/4 "2007-10-15T18:00:51Z")
[QUOTE=Bobotheoptimist] 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. [/QUOTE] 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. ---
**Author:** ![Cowgirl\_Jules](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4af34b/32.png) [@Cowgirl\_Jules](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cowgirl_Jules)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2007, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-hands-are-cold/422805/5 "2007-10-15T18:05:31Z")
Silly, it’s from warming them on the ice cream. ---
**Author:** ![Bobotheoptimist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/919ad9/32.png) [@Bobotheoptimist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bobotheoptimist)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2007, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-hands-are-cold/422805/6 "2007-10-15T19:34:23Z")
[QUOTE=MLS] 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. [/QUOTE] Seriously? Maybe I should eat a box of salt to get my blood pressure up… [QUOTE=Cowgirl Jules] Silly, it’s from warming them on the ice cream. [/QUOTE] 🙂 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. ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2007, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-hands-are-cold/422805/7 "2007-10-15T20:18:57Z")
[QUOTE=scout1222] IT’S NOT A TUMOR! [/QUOTE] Of course not. It’s lupus. _waits for it_ ---
**Author:** ![Napier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ce73a5/32.png) [@Napier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Napier)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2007, 10:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-hands-are-cold/422805/8 "2007-10-16T10:53:56Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Jimson\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/838e76/32.png) [@Jimson\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jimson_Jim)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2007, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-hands-are-cold/422805/9 "2007-10-16T13:29:14Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Dunawake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/85f322/32.png) [@Dunawake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dunawake)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2007, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-hands-are-cold/422805/10 "2007-10-16T15:00:53Z")
[QUOTE=Kythereia] Of course not. It’s lupus. _waits for it_ [/QUOTE] It’s NEVER lupus! Happy to oblige 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Bobotheoptimist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/919ad9/32.png) [@Bobotheoptimist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bobotheoptimist)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2007, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-hands-are-cold/422805/11 "2007-10-16T15:05:23Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2007, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-hands-are-cold/422805/12 "2007-10-16T17:46:38Z")
[QUOTE=Dunawake] It’s NEVER lupus! [/QUOTE] Thank you. 😃 (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?) ---
**Author:** ![Solfy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@Solfy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Solfy)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2007, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-hands-are-cold/422805/13 "2007-10-16T18:09:54Z")
I always have cold hands/feet unless I’m pregnant, whereupon I radiate the heat of the summer sun for nine months. Get pregnant! 🙂