Re: I feel cold all the time!

[billd]

I’ve been feeling that lately when I go to bed. Sort of chills until i’ve laid there a while. Even then, I don’t mind the cats snuggling up to me. Weird, though – then at times I get to where I just have to strip down a bit as I can’t sleep if my feet are too warm!

Stimulant meds doing that would be sort of a contradiction. Here’s why I say this. I have Raynaud’s. It’s a syndrome where when you get cool or cold, the capillaries actually close down instead of opening up to allow more blood flow.

Let it get cool, my hands and feet will get cold, and at times to the point my hands or fingers go numb – or feel like they are “asleep” – as if when you sit on a leg, or lay on an arm wrong.

Took a while to find a doc who could diagnose it as all the other said “circulation feels good” as they felt the blood vessels in my legs and arms, checked pulse strength, etc. When I was eating at a restaurant on a cool afternoon one day my right hand felt funny and 2 or 3 of the fingers felt as if they’d gone to sleep and my hand felt cold. I tried the usual, moving my arm around, shook my fingers, etc. but it lasted nearly an hour. The clinic was only a half mile away so we drove there after eating. The fellow checked me out, asked some questions, then said “you have Raynaud’s”

He prescribed some pills to take if I felt the symptoms or starting having issues more frequently.

Those pills were a stimulant – which causes blood vessels to open up and allow more blood flow, warming the extremities.

So if our meds which are stimulants can cause a “cold feeling”, it just seems counter-logical to me, a non-doctor.

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