My hands have gone blue!

[janeyo]

With cold. I have really poor circulation and now all my fingernails are blue. Weird.
Maybe I'm one of those un-dead types? It would certainly explain how I am always so cold.

[Nicos]

Do you want to come and do my washing up??..that'll warm them.....or a trip over to see M leponge

[janeyo]

I'll wash if you dry.
Not sure Bob would cope with mad old Marty turning up on his doorstep, although the heat would be lovely!

[SlugLobber]

Sounds like a classic Raynauds symptom to me. My fingernails really are blue, today, but possibly this is due to the nailpolish on them!

I do get blue fingernails in the office, though, if the heating isn't on or I'm having a 'bad' day. I also get the 'White Finger' and am terrible for acclimatising to different temperatures, even if it's not very cold.

[where2start]

My daughter goes blue round the mouth and her fingers go blue if her asthma is playing up. You wouldnt happen to have breathing problems do you?

Mind saying that it is very cold in the UK and i think the best thing to do would be to hop on a plane to somewhere sunny and warm and lovely....to sit by a pool reading a gardening mag or book drinking a long G&T ummmmm sounds like a plan

Hope you feel better soon, if all else fails sit on your hands!!!! Or i did read a survival tip somewhere that suggested piddle?!?!

[janeyo]

I don't care if they drop off with cold I ain't doing nothing funny with my piddle!

I do have suspected asthma sometimes (ie some docs say I do and other say not). I am just ALWAYS cold, even when sunbathing. Mum said when I was little we would be outside playing (in the days when we seemed to have a summer lol) and the first breath of wind would blow and I'd have to go inside again, cold.

I'm sticking with the undead theory

[bobleponge]

I'll wash if you dry.
Not sure Bob would cope with mad old Marty turning up on his doorstep, although the heat would be lovely!

I'm not really Nicos' Dr. Just in case you were worried.

[Two_Sheds]

Another Undead one here, too.
I am always cold. It's 20C here in my lounge, and I have a blankie on my legs, but my nose is cold.
Mr Sheds will come home and strip off to his underpants (sorry, you didn't want to picture that)

[Polly Fouracre]

Cold hands, warm heart, they say!!

[lynda66]

I'm undead too ........ tis ok till bits start dropping off

[dexterdoglancashire]

With cold. I have really poor circulation and now all my fingernails are blue. Weird.
Maybe I'm one of those un-dead types? It would certainly explain how I am always so cold.

Hi Janey - yes, it sounds like reynaurds (sp?!) to me. I've suffered from it for years. I also have ice cold toes and feet. I have some really good thermal gloves when I'm on the lottie - I'll try and dig out where I got them from and also the details of the reynaurds association - they send you lots of useful info!
Basically, I'm never without my gloves and thermal socks during winter - you may feel a bit daft wearing them but its well worth it!

[dexterdoglancashire]

Another Undead one here, too.
I am always cold. It's 20C here in my lounge, and I have a blankie on my legs, but my nose is cold.
Mr Sheds will come home and strip off to his underpants (sorry, you didn't want to picture that)

..............and there was thinking it was just me and my OH that have this ritual every night when he comes home!

PS I have my side of the bed with the electric blanket, his doesnt, I also have two quilts on the bed (OH throws one off) also on my side of the bed Ive got a thick sleeping bag and a single quilt full of lovely, warm duck down.....nice and snuggly! Also OH says like trying to get a cuddle with me is like peeling an onion! I wear more layers in bed than I do in the daytime! LOL!

[zazen999]

With cold. I have really poor circulation and now all my fingernails are blue. Weird.
Maybe I'm one of those un-dead types? It would certainly explain how I am always so cold.

I get this as well - particularly bad one year at uni when they decided the evening classes didn't need heating - all winter PLUS had a tutor who decided that the freezing classrooms were too warm. I kid you not...she would turn up with a fan AND open the windows as we were freezing - all through the winter. Nutter.

Didn't know it was an actual syndrome! I have to have the quilt on in the summer and have an array of socks for bed in the winter.

[dexterdoglancashire]

Hi Janey - right here we go: the gloves a swear by and were recommended by a lovely lady on the vine called supersprout back in 2007 are Showa Thermal - you can find these on the amazon website. As for the raynauds association - Raynauds & Scleroderma Association - log onto their website and then ask for a pack of info to be sent (think you can still do that) and it's really useful. Good luck. Let me know how you get on.

[janeyo]

Thanks DDL, OH has just bought me some gloves but they didn't really keep my hands any warmer. They are called Atlas. I also have thinsulate ones for walking to school and they don't work either. I always wear 2 pairs of socks and have got some balmosa cream, it warms your feet up like deep heat.

I will have a look at those gloves too.
Funnily enough once in bed I am always warm. Although we do argue about which duvet to have one the bed, me WINTER, him SUMMER (He's wrong)

I find the only way I can get really warm before bed is to get in a molten lead bath!