My hands and feet are always cold! Even when the rest of my body is fine my hands seem to be frozen - is this a problem that anyone else has found with CFS, or does this seem to be a totally unrerlated issue? :confused:

My hands and feet are always cold! Even when the rest of my body is fine my hands seem to be frozen - is this a problem that anyone else has found with CFS, or does this seem to be a totally unrerlated issue? :confused:

Have you had your thyroid checked? If not, I would do so, through a blood panel. But if you just have poor circulation, Horse Chestnut is a good remedy.

Peregrine

i get that!! i also know alot of ppl with CFS who get it, it may be due to the whole low blood volume theory thingy?? then again my hands n feet have always been cold even before i got ill! no help really but your not the only one!

i get that!! i also know alot of ppl with CFS who get it, it may be due to the whole low blood volume theory thingy?? then again my hands n feet have always been cold even before i got ill! no help really but your not the only one!

Thanks :) Knowing I'm not the only one helps - at least it isn't another issue I have to worry about! I have had my thyroid checked, and all is good there - just wish I could stay warm somehow, especially during the winter cold! I'm trying a new thing at work - fingertipless gloves! not sure it's going to work, but maybe it will distract me from the yawning :yawn:

Thanks all!

Have any of you read up on Raynaulds disease or talked to your doctors about it? My doctor asked me about any instnances of my fingers turing white or feeling frozen and I told him yes...and then told him what happened as well as what happened to my foot. He told me I have Raynaluds Disease. Check into it. I am freezing all the time and can only take the AC for so long in the summer till I freeze to death...would rather sweat then be cold. <^..^>)))~~~ Joyshow

Have any of you read up on Raynaulds disease or talked to your doctors about it? My doctor asked me about any instnances of my fingers turing white or feeling frozen and I told him yes...and then told him what happened as well as what happened to my foot. He told me I have Raynaluds Disease. Check into it. I am freezing all the time and can only take the AC for so long in the summer till I freeze to death...would rather sweat then be cold. <^..^>)))~~~ Joyshow

:eek: I just looked Raynaulds up nad from what little I read it sounds exactly like me! Only my finger tips (not the whole finger or hand) get FREEZING cold as well as my nose - my fingers alternate between white and red and no matter what I do they stay cold for an indefinite period of time. I will have to look more into it and ask my doctor, but thanks :D Is there anything that you or your doctor have found that works to help warm up?

Dear AnaRoman, Nothing he suggested. I just keep them extra warm. He said I might consider taking gloves to the grocery store to get stuff out of the freezer sections. I keep shoes on and socks constantly unless I am outside but even then somehow the heat can do the toes in if it is really hot; like it did mine on the beach. He just suggests keeping those areas warm and comfortable. I personally take my hands and run them under cool water and then when I get feeling back or the whitness leaves I make it a little warmer and continue till they are warm again. Hope this helps you, Hugs, Joyshow ^..^)))~~~

Have you had your thyroid checked? If not, I would do so, through a blood panel. But if you just have poor circulation, Horse Chestnut is a good remedy.

Peregrine
why horse chestnut

:eek: I just looked Raynaulds up nad from what little I read it sounds exactly like me! Only my finger tips (not the whole finger or hand) get FREEZING cold as well as my nose - my fingers alternate between white and red and no matter what I do they stay cold for an indefinite period of time. I will have to look more into it and ask my doctor, but thanks :D Is there anything that you or your doctor have found that works to help warm up?
Hi AnaRoman,
the only thing she told me is to keep a heating pad close by....I am now using a heating pad for the fingers and an icepack ont he wrists for tendonitis and crying because I just found out I don't have just a right torn rotator cuff but also the left is torn....and I only had surgery on the left back in April of last year. But heat is the best I can suggest. Gooc luck <^..^>