Reply To: Meds causing cold hands?

[sar316]

I also suffer from being too cold. I’m on concerta and I’m pretty sure I have been like this much before I started taking meds. I completely understand what it’s like to be unusually cold when everyone else is boiling. You should have seen the looks on my in-laws faces when I strolled out of our room in Mexico wearing a sweater. Or my parents faces when I bought winter mittens in Southern Texas, we are from Saskatchewan.

I find it difficult when I get nervous or stressed or sick. My body gets so cold that I start to shiver. Shivering while in a normal room-temperature building makes me sweat. Well, normal people sweat to cool down, and I am no exception to this rule. So now on top of being cold and am now even colder, sweaty and all hope of warming up any time soon is lost.

I also have a hard time being out in the cold for any length of time, lets define ‘cold outside’ as below freezing. I hate being in the cold because my fingers literally stop working. Pockets, gloves, mittens, it doesn’t matter and it gets even worse when I come into the warm because then my fingers swell and hurt so much.

I have always assumed it has been because of my lower than normal blood pressure compounded with my weak/fussy mast cells causing inconvenient histamine reactions.

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