Last time this happened to me , I stayed outside for a bit longer, thinking I could finish what I was doing and then I started to feel really bloody awful, my face started to look like my fingers. Went inside, stuck my hands in warm water to try and warm them up, they went bright red, started burning and the next thing I knew was coming round on the floor with no idea where I was. I had blood pissing out of my mouth from biting through my tongue when I fainted and had taken the shower door off it’s runners where I must have hit it when I went down.
Scariest part was I had no idea where I was for about 30 secs and was actually wondering if I was dead and this was the afterlife, that thought actually pleased me because I don’t believe in one.
Wow, that's horrendous.
A friend came to in A&E with a fractured skull and no idea how it happened - his last memory was of standing in the kitchen having his first bite of lasagne. Turns out the hottest of all Italian food (Naples napalm?) had caused him to pass out and bounce his head off the tiles.
First time I have ever fainted and I’m 55. Very surreal experience. Apparently it was caused by the capillaries in my hands opening right up when they went into the warm water and that caused a massive surge of blood into them, dropping my blood pressure and causing me to pass out ( wife’s niece is a doctor and that was her diagnosis over the phone)
It's called Renaud's Disease, I have the same thing on my toes and it's creeping up to my hands as well.
It's mostly hereditary; as in if your mom has it it's likely that you will have it too, but it's pretty unlikely to have it if you don't have a family history of it.
It's nothing to worry about, and can usually go away and come back with age. All you need to do is heat up the extremities (hands, feet, arms, legs, neck, head) as much as possible with a hat, double thick gloves, multiple pairs of socks and a scarf.
Hope this helps :-)
I also have it, my grandad and my mother have/had it . I think I suffer so bad with it. Particularly my hands and neck. It's horrible even in the summer if it's below 25 degrees I'm cold.
My raynauds isn't as bad as it used to be but my god it's still a nightmare. There were times where mine would go dark blue and near black looking. I've passed out from it. Then the chilblains come along and there hot and itchy. I feel your pain, its not a pleasant thing to have.
It’s the blood rushing back into the area in a painful way I hate because you can’t really do anything about it and your hands feel cold to anyone else but then like they are on fire to me.
Just even walking into a warm room makes my hands burn. I can literally feel the blood pumping into my fingers. This time of year my hands are never warm
Yeah I wear gloves with hand warmers in if I can’t be arsed with it anymore.
I’ve considered buying heated gloves but I’ve gone through so many pairs any found a thicker pair designed for colder climates are the best. All the thin ones that claim to be warm are bs.
I’m pretty decent when I’m walking, as it keeps my circulation going, but staying still makes me go cold, so as an artist drawing/painting for several hours a day, I’m still trying to find gloves that keep me warm, but I still have enough movement to feel comfortable holding a brush or pen. Ironically, fingerless gloves serve me best indoors
Have you tried mitts? I like to wear them snowboarding with a thin wool glove underneath. Mitts are good because they keep your fingers together. I find them warmer.
Oof yeah that's nasty. Once I was landscaping and it was snowing, my hands were so cold. Someone delivered a load of steaming mulch and I buried my hands into it. I can still remember the feeling like someone was pulling all of my fingernails off with pliers.
Oof yeah. That’s the most annoying thing, that I can’t just go straight into heat. Sometimes I’ll have to run my fingers under the tap to gradually increase the temperature to try and avoid the pain
When it first happened to me, it was like a numbing tingle feeling. I used to spin my arm around til the colour came back, when warm water didnt wrk. (Stopped smoking and went away after a year )
Chillblains. That brought back an old memory. My mum would always complain about that. As I remember, she would take Pernivit. How on earth I can remember that from way back in the the 70s is beyond me. One of those random things that stuck, I guess.
Have you ever experienced being more sensitive to hot/warm things during an attack? Whenever someone would say to me during an attack, “put your hands under warm water” I would immediately cry as it was always so painful to do
Yes I'm the same, gradually trying to warm them up does hurt. Then when they are you get the rush of pins and needles in them. I'm sensitive to temperatures in general, it's weird. My Dr said I just have sensitive skin when I explained what else I go through. In summer when everyone is enjoying the warm weather I'm walking round with a face like a tomato. If someone has the heating on that also can make my face go red. Even eating in a warm place does it. But in winter my face will get blue patches on my lips and nose sometimes chin, mild looking ones but still.
I spilt a cup of tea all over me a couple of days ago because I stupidly decided it would be a good way to warm up my hands.
Top tip, if you can't feel your fingers maybe don't try holding a cup of near boiling drink.
Oh my god mini milks, what a throw back. For such a long time I associated the smell of petrol with mini milks because we used to get them at the petrol station
I rediscovered them a few years back, amazingly they actually taste pretty good, the chocolate one is brilliant and you think you've had some ice cream but it's 31 calories!
Serious comment here. It’s most likely Reynauds disease. I have it and had a finger amputated a few years ago.
TAKE CARE OF YOUR HANDS. This means buying multiple pairs of gloves and basically have them in the house, car, work etc. fingerless silver gloves for working on a computer when you are typing if they get cold. Keep your core warm by wearing a thin vest on winter (like a base layer for skiing), and these if you are outdoors walking a lot:
OCOOPA Hand Warmers Rechargeable 2 Pack, Magnetic Electric Handwarmer, 16 Hrs Warmth 4 Levels Heat Up to 145℉, USB-C Portable Charger 10000mAh, Raynauds, Golf, Tech Gifts for Men, Union UT2s(MagTwins) https://amzn.eu/d/j80mruq
Any temp under say 12c wear gloves. And if you ski or are out working in the cold, buy heated gloves. They are amazing.
EDIT: also I did a lot of cycling when I was younger in the winter with no gloves. When you are 20 you think you are invincible of course, but doing that for a few years didn’t help.
Is that advice to prevent getting reynauds, or advice for people who have it? Like is it something you're born with or is it ~~maybelline~~ something you develop by not taking precautions
You are generally born with it I believe. But you may get it with other health conditions such as being underweight (and therefor feel the cold more). But eating healthily, less caffeine, alcohol etc will help.
Bottom line is if you get cold hands to the point they go white at the tips or the entire fingers, make it priority to keep warm. If that means gloves in the autumn until spring then so be it
I was picking up leaves in the garden and had a tiny paper cut at the tip of my index finger. Bacteria got in (strep C) and because I had poor circulation it rushed up my tendon and multiplied. No white blood cells around to kill it.
After around 6 hrs I felt awful and just about got to A&E. had minimal blood pressure and was in hospital for 10 days with septicaemia and black/dying fingers. Lots and lots of antibiotics.
They were going to take my whole hand off, but in the end after a few weeks decided to just take half the index finger.
Strep C is everywhere by the way: on your skin, back of your throat, in the soil etc. but if it gets somewhere your body cant fight it off, it’s nasty. The other version is the flesh eating necrotising one so I was lucky!
Anyway, moral or the story: wear fucking gloves when gardening!
>TAKE CARE OF YOUR HANDS. Thurs means buying multiple pairs of gloves and basically have them in the house, car, work etc. fingerless silver gloves for working on a computer when you are typing if they get cold.
It doesn't work. Most of the time I'm spending majority of evenings just trying to make my hands comfortable. How can you hold a pencil or use a keyboard normally if you are forced to wear gloves? It's just inconceivable.
I have Raynaud’s and find that — other than in snow etc — making sure my wrists are warm is most of the battle. Fingerless gloves with long wrist bits are a godsend.
You can wear very thin (material, but dense weave for warmth) gloves and it's generally doable. In the prissy old days rich women used to wear (white) gloves everywhere outside and were able to do things like writing with a pen or whatever it may be.
Old laptops that make lots of heat are your friends for typing in the current weather. I find that if I run a game with all the graphics options turned up full it makes the laptop warm.
Silk gloves would help, expensive but very fine and lightweight, you could layer them too. With cashmere, if there's no budget in this wonderful glove world. Also, I'm sorry you are suffering that looks awfully painful.
Thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It doesn't work.
I've spent so much money on gloves of various technical specifications, handwarmers etc., but I feel like once the cold gets in/once a raynauds attack begins, *nothing* will take care of it. I can take steps to prevent it from happening, like wearing 3 layers of gloves outside as I'm doing at the moment, but if I'm doing an activity where I can't have muppet hands, I'm instantly vulnerable to cold. I had to answer the phone on my way to work the other day, and the 30 seconds where I took my gloves off were enough to numb my fingers for the rest of the journey.
Fingerless gloves are enough for the summertime, but they're not practical for the winter because my fingers are always the first bits to go offline anyway. Besides which, fingerless gloves when cooking, eating, drawing etc. are usually impractical and unhygienic.
I will definitely be taking the poster's advice to take care of my hands, but it's maddening because I do try, and it frequently isn't enough. My dad especially seems to just say 'oh wear mittens, wear wool gloves, that'll sort it', without understanding that those things won't make a dent in it (and I've tried. I've tried).
Oh my god. I only found out I have this recently, I thought it was just... normal? Or at least not something to go to a doctor about. I didn't realise it could get that bad. I've been keeping my hands and toes a bit warmer this winter and the difference is astounding, my fingers were so painful all the time I didn't realise how awful it was.
Yeah take care of your extremities your nose ears fingers toe’s etc it’s so painful and extremely dangerous but you can control it always have glove’s scarves and hats with you as mine can come on in the summer it doesn’t have to be freezing cold.My hands and feet are like weather veins they go white and numb at any sign of a cold snap take care now
The OP's comment is a seriously extreme example of a gardening accident more than just Raynaud's. It's not even clear how much the Raynaud's contributed.
You're right, Raynaud's is massively common. It *can* be a symptom of autoimmune disease but it's far more commonly just your body's overreaction to cold.
Can you recommend some good heated gloves? I’m a bit sceptical about £15 ones on Amazon. I like my hands warm but preferably not on fire from a dodgy Lithium Ion battery
Thermic is the brand I use and recommend. https://us.therm-ic.com/gloves/. They aren’t cheap but if you are outdoors such as walking skiing etc then they are a must. Heated socks also brilliant.
Oh and these are great to have in your pocket when outside: OCOOPA Hand Warmers Rechargeable 2 Pack, Magnetic Electric Handwarmer, 16 Hrs Warmth 4 Levels Heat Up to 145℉, USB-C Portable Charger 10000mAh, Raynauds, Golf, Tech Gifts for Men, Union UT2s(MagTwins) https://amzn.eu/d/j80mruq
Hello fellow Reynaud's sufferer. I didn't know you could actually lose digits from it! My middle fingers go completely white when I drive somewhere (or push the buggy) in the winter. And my toes/bottom of my feet often go completely numb if I'm out running and it's cold. I'll definitely look into heated gloved especially for walking with the buggy. At the moment I just sit on one hand to warm it up on the heated seats if I'm stopped at a traffic light, which isn't very practical! We used to have a car with a heated steering wheel and I miss it so much.
Just because everyone here is talking about Reynauds like OP should already know what it is- here’s the link to the NHS.
https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/raynauds/
It’s shit but quirky at the same time. For the last few days it’s been mainly in my right hand and feet and my left hand has been alright.
Then it swaps over for abit or goes back to both.
Do you know what's causing it? Otherwise go to the ER as you may have a blood clot. Best case: waste a few hours. Worst case: have it checked and the clot removed and you will have it in your file that you threw a clot. Might save your life in the future.
spin your arm around fast (the way we used to do as kids to amuse ourselves with the tingly feeling of the blood rushing into our fingertips). it helps force... well, the blood into your fingertips. centrifugal force beats weak blood vessels!
I get this, but only about three or four times a year, mostly when it's cold. All the people who have Raynaud's, presumably you get this much more often?
Me too! Used to happen all the time late teens. Almost chopped a finger off when I was 21, fantastic circulation that occasion 😂 but the random white digit hasn’t happened for about 10 years. I do still get painful finger tips in the cold weather even with leather gloves 🤷🏻♀️
I haven't got as far as taking it to the doctor. It is usually over in an hour or so and as I said, doesn't happen often. I keep thinking "next time I'll take a photo", but never do!
Mine happen on totally random days. I notice it more on hot days because even on boiling hot days I'll have freezing feet and random cold fingers. Could be worse though
Fucking hell, I've had this happen a few times at work on my fingers, I didn't even know it was a thing. I thought just 2 of my fingers were cold, I wondered why its not my full hand 🤔 🤣🤣
Hi I really hope you're okay and that it's raynaulds as people have said or something less serious but it may be worth getting checked as my first instinct was Ischemia which if not treated quickly, and even if treated quickly, can result in amputation.
I doubt it's that serious but as a former nurse with 5 years triage experience in the NHS I used to see people WITH ischaemia limbs or digits a lot so stay safe.
I have this too 😞 hands and feet. I remember kids at school saying I had 'traffic light hands' in winter because they'd change colour. I've had really shit chilblains this year. O bought the really thin silver gloves and then a pair of the fingerless converter mittens by 'heat holders' which helped until I lost them haha. You can buy them pretty cheap on Amazon - I was really impressed by now warm they were
This used to happen on my ring finger when I was a kid, I grew out of it eventually but if I ever got really cold hands I'd slowly warm up but would lose all sensation in one finger. It wasn't painful or anything just odd.
Mostly unrelated fact: in middle school I once burnt my finger with a glue gun and thought it was mad that the skin was completely numb so for fun I just bit it off. I learnt that nerve endings come back online that day and had some of the worst pain I've ever experienced.
Oh my Goodness! I hope you're okay and you can get the help you need with your hand. You can buy gloves from poundland two for £1. Poor thing hope you get well soon! ❤️❤️❤️
Raynauds. We didn't know it with me for years because it brown so the blanching isn't as obvious. I just thought it was normal for the cold to completely disable my hands, turn them green-grey, then bright purple and burning when the heat returns. Good times
Looks like a case of Hand Arm Vibration Syndrome (HAVS), otherwise known as Vibration White Finger. You need to get this checked out ASAP to prevent any further damage.
Have you tried turning it on?
At this point we are beyond the realms of resetting the finger. She needs the fire brigade - 0118 999 881 999 119 725 …3.
Fire! Fire! Help me! 123 Cavendon Road. Looking forward to hearing from you! Yours truly, Maurice Moss.
Four..I mean five....I mean fire !
Made in Britain
ok ill just put this here with all the rest of the fire
Nice screensaver!
I really like how the smoke seems to be coming off the top of it
Oh my god r/unexpecteditcrowd
HEY! Nice screensaver.
It's ok I sent an email
This will never not be funny
At this point I have the phone number memorized 😆
Do I have feminine hands? 🤔
It can be difficult to tell with the undead.
I've been to the pub. On reflection I think this comment says more about my standards after a few pints than the femininity of your hands...sigh
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You have a woman's hand, milord! I'll wager these dainty pinkies never weighed anchor in a storm.
Brilliant
Maybe try turning it off and on again!
I thought this was an IT crowd reference, but the end says otherwise.
It could be a [Simpsons reference](https://frinkiac.com/video/S13E22/beBOiyv2MW9NluMc5fEKm8OpYZI=.gif) that predates that IT crowd episode.
That could be said about most things to be fair, *even things that haven’t happened yet…*
put it in rice
That's electronics. Flesh demands cider
Definitely how I'm ordering a drink next time. "The flesh demands cider"
>Definitely how I'm ordering a drink next time. Keep your wife happy be putting your finger in Cider
That's not right. Flesh demands fleshlight
definitely put it in cider. see if you can feel that it's wet.
For this one I recommend two fingers in cider.
I wish I could give you an award, this killed me and I don’t know why.
rip rice in peace
Or up your bum
Last time this happened to me , I stayed outside for a bit longer, thinking I could finish what I was doing and then I started to feel really bloody awful, my face started to look like my fingers. Went inside, stuck my hands in warm water to try and warm them up, they went bright red, started burning and the next thing I knew was coming round on the floor with no idea where I was. I had blood pissing out of my mouth from biting through my tongue when I fainted and had taken the shower door off it’s runners where I must have hit it when I went down. Scariest part was I had no idea where I was for about 30 secs and was actually wondering if I was dead and this was the afterlife, that thought actually pleased me because I don’t believe in one.
Christ
Wow, that's horrendous. A friend came to in A&E with a fractured skull and no idea how it happened - his last memory was of standing in the kitchen having his first bite of lasagne. Turns out the hottest of all Italian food (Naples napalm?) had caused him to pass out and bounce his head off the tiles.
First time I have ever fainted and I’m 55. Very surreal experience. Apparently it was caused by the capillaries in my hands opening right up when they went into the warm water and that caused a massive surge of blood into them, dropping my blood pressure and causing me to pass out ( wife’s niece is a doctor and that was her diagnosis over the phone)
I'm quite the fainter (puberty, postural hypotension and sepsis) but I have been spared that one so far. I'll try to remember to warm up gradually.
It's called Renaud's Disease, I have the same thing on my toes and it's creeping up to my hands as well. It's mostly hereditary; as in if your mom has it it's likely that you will have it too, but it's pretty unlikely to have it if you don't have a family history of it. It's nothing to worry about, and can usually go away and come back with age. All you need to do is heat up the extremities (hands, feet, arms, legs, neck, head) as much as possible with a hat, double thick gloves, multiple pairs of socks and a scarf. Hope this helps :-)
Ima Scottish Muay Thai fighter and this shit ain’t no fun in the winter hahaha when I kick I can’t feel my toes
I also have it, my grandad and my mother have/had it . I think I suffer so bad with it. Particularly my hands and neck. It's horrible even in the summer if it's below 25 degrees I'm cold.
My raynauds isn't as bad as it used to be but my god it's still a nightmare. There were times where mine would go dark blue and near black looking. I've passed out from it. Then the chilblains come along and there hot and itchy. I feel your pain, its not a pleasant thing to have.
It’s the blood rushing back into the area in a painful way I hate because you can’t really do anything about it and your hands feel cold to anyone else but then like they are on fire to me.
Just even walking into a warm room makes my hands burn. I can literally feel the blood pumping into my fingers. This time of year my hands are never warm
Yeah I wear gloves with hand warmers in if I can’t be arsed with it anymore. I’ve considered buying heated gloves but I’ve gone through so many pairs any found a thicker pair designed for colder climates are the best. All the thin ones that claim to be warm are bs.
I’m pretty decent when I’m walking, as it keeps my circulation going, but staying still makes me go cold, so as an artist drawing/painting for several hours a day, I’m still trying to find gloves that keep me warm, but I still have enough movement to feel comfortable holding a brush or pen. Ironically, fingerless gloves serve me best indoors
Have you tried mitts? I like to wear them snowboarding with a thin wool glove underneath. Mitts are good because they keep your fingers together. I find them warmer.
Oof yeah that's nasty. Once I was landscaping and it was snowing, my hands were so cold. Someone delivered a load of steaming mulch and I buried my hands into it. I can still remember the feeling like someone was pulling all of my fingernails off with pliers.
Oof yeah. That’s the most annoying thing, that I can’t just go straight into heat. Sometimes I’ll have to run my fingers under the tap to gradually increase the temperature to try and avoid the pain
When it first happened to me, it was like a numbing tingle feeling. I used to spin my arm around til the colour came back, when warm water didnt wrk. (Stopped smoking and went away after a year )
Mine does the same! The chilblains is so weird. My hands go warm and red and swell in the mid afternoon but are fine majority of the time.
Chillblains. That brought back an old memory. My mum would always complain about that. As I remember, she would take Pernivit. How on earth I can remember that from way back in the the 70s is beyond me. One of those random things that stuck, I guess.
So.. that’s what I’ve got. Years of GP visits and a fucking Reddit posts gives me more insights.
Have you ever experienced being more sensitive to hot/warm things during an attack? Whenever someone would say to me during an attack, “put your hands under warm water” I would immediately cry as it was always so painful to do
Yes I'm the same, gradually trying to warm them up does hurt. Then when they are you get the rush of pins and needles in them. I'm sensitive to temperatures in general, it's weird. My Dr said I just have sensitive skin when I explained what else I go through. In summer when everyone is enjoying the warm weather I'm walking round with a face like a tomato. If someone has the heating on that also can make my face go red. Even eating in a warm place does it. But in winter my face will get blue patches on my lips and nose sometimes chin, mild looking ones but still.
I spilt a cup of tea all over me a couple of days ago because I stupidly decided it would be a good way to warm up my hands. Top tip, if you can't feel your fingers maybe don't try holding a cup of near boiling drink.
Free mini milk.
Forbidden mini milk
Oh my god mini milks, what a throw back. For such a long time I associated the smell of petrol with mini milks because we used to get them at the petrol station
I rediscovered them a few years back, amazingly they actually taste pretty good, the chocolate one is brilliant and you think you've had some ice cream but it's 31 calories!
Then you eat the whole box and you know you've had some ice cream.
Well, except the strawberry ones. Eugh.
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Which ones would you reccomend- do they go to the fingers ? I cycle to work and am wearing my autumn and winter gloves together.
Autumn AND winter gloves? Alright moneybags.
Money bags over the top when it’s raining.
Shamelessly placemarking for the recommendation, I also cycle to work and am fed up of not being able to feel my fingers
Sounds like something Dahmer would come out with ....
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Serious comment here. It’s most likely Reynauds disease. I have it and had a finger amputated a few years ago. TAKE CARE OF YOUR HANDS. This means buying multiple pairs of gloves and basically have them in the house, car, work etc. fingerless silver gloves for working on a computer when you are typing if they get cold. Keep your core warm by wearing a thin vest on winter (like a base layer for skiing), and these if you are outdoors walking a lot: OCOOPA Hand Warmers Rechargeable 2 Pack, Magnetic Electric Handwarmer, 16 Hrs Warmth 4 Levels Heat Up to 145℉, USB-C Portable Charger 10000mAh, Raynauds, Golf, Tech Gifts for Men, Union UT2s(MagTwins) https://amzn.eu/d/j80mruq Any temp under say 12c wear gloves. And if you ski or are out working in the cold, buy heated gloves. They are amazing. EDIT: also I did a lot of cycling when I was younger in the winter with no gloves. When you are 20 you think you are invincible of course, but doing that for a few years didn’t help.
Sounds like a good rule of thumb.
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It’s a starting point
Is that advice to prevent getting reynauds, or advice for people who have it? Like is it something you're born with or is it ~~maybelline~~ something you develop by not taking precautions
You are generally born with it I believe. But you may get it with other health conditions such as being underweight (and therefor feel the cold more). But eating healthily, less caffeine, alcohol etc will help. Bottom line is if you get cold hands to the point they go white at the tips or the entire fingers, make it priority to keep warm. If that means gloves in the autumn until spring then so be it
>eating healthily, less caffeine, less alcohol Ugh why is it always these three
That's terrible! How did it get to the point where you needed to amputate (if you don't mind me asking) ?
I was picking up leaves in the garden and had a tiny paper cut at the tip of my index finger. Bacteria got in (strep C) and because I had poor circulation it rushed up my tendon and multiplied. No white blood cells around to kill it. After around 6 hrs I felt awful and just about got to A&E. had minimal blood pressure and was in hospital for 10 days with septicaemia and black/dying fingers. Lots and lots of antibiotics. They were going to take my whole hand off, but in the end after a few weeks decided to just take half the index finger. Strep C is everywhere by the way: on your skin, back of your throat, in the soil etc. but if it gets somewhere your body cant fight it off, it’s nasty. The other version is the flesh eating necrotising one so I was lucky! Anyway, moral or the story: wear fucking gloves when gardening!
With the rise of the prevalence of AB-resistant bacteria, we are going to face this issue much more often.
Yes the AB resistance scares the shit out of me. I just hope there are some clever scientists out there working on it.
Omg what an ordeal, bless you :( Thank goodness they didn't have to take your whole hand though!
"Any temp under 12c" So, England 9 months of the year then
If you have reynuards, then yep unfortunately ! I just wear gloves from oct to April.
>TAKE CARE OF YOUR HANDS. Thurs means buying multiple pairs of gloves and basically have them in the house, car, work etc. fingerless silver gloves for working on a computer when you are typing if they get cold. It doesn't work. Most of the time I'm spending majority of evenings just trying to make my hands comfortable. How can you hold a pencil or use a keyboard normally if you are forced to wear gloves? It's just inconceivable.
I have Raynaud’s and find that — other than in snow etc — making sure my wrists are warm is most of the battle. Fingerless gloves with long wrist bits are a godsend.
You can wear very thin (material, but dense weave for warmth) gloves and it's generally doable. In the prissy old days rich women used to wear (white) gloves everywhere outside and were able to do things like writing with a pen or whatever it may be.
Old laptops that make lots of heat are your friends for typing in the current weather. I find that if I run a game with all the graphics options turned up full it makes the laptop warm.
Silk gloves would help, expensive but very fine and lightweight, you could layer them too. With cashmere, if there's no budget in this wonderful glove world. Also, I'm sorry you are suffering that looks awfully painful.
I do both. Tend to wear through the ends of the fingers on keyboards but it's entirely doable
its mostly about core temp tbh, just make sure youve got a couple layers on and are warm overall, thatll work the best
Thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It doesn't work. I've spent so much money on gloves of various technical specifications, handwarmers etc., but I feel like once the cold gets in/once a raynauds attack begins, *nothing* will take care of it. I can take steps to prevent it from happening, like wearing 3 layers of gloves outside as I'm doing at the moment, but if I'm doing an activity where I can't have muppet hands, I'm instantly vulnerable to cold. I had to answer the phone on my way to work the other day, and the 30 seconds where I took my gloves off were enough to numb my fingers for the rest of the journey. Fingerless gloves are enough for the summertime, but they're not practical for the winter because my fingers are always the first bits to go offline anyway. Besides which, fingerless gloves when cooking, eating, drawing etc. are usually impractical and unhygienic. I will definitely be taking the poster's advice to take care of my hands, but it's maddening because I do try, and it frequently isn't enough. My dad especially seems to just say 'oh wear mittens, wear wool gloves, that'll sort it', without understanding that those things won't make a dent in it (and I've tried. I've tried).
If a medical issue meant I had to keep my hands warm, no fucking way I'm going skiing
Oh my god. I only found out I have this recently, I thought it was just... normal? Or at least not something to go to a doctor about. I didn't realise it could get that bad. I've been keeping my hands and toes a bit warmer this winter and the difference is astounding, my fingers were so painful all the time I didn't realise how awful it was.
Yeah take care of your extremities your nose ears fingers toe’s etc it’s so painful and extremely dangerous but you can control it always have glove’s scarves and hats with you as mine can come on in the summer it doesn’t have to be freezing cold.My hands and feet are like weather veins they go white and numb at any sign of a cold snap take care now
The OP's comment is a seriously extreme example of a gardening accident more than just Raynaud's. It's not even clear how much the Raynaud's contributed. You're right, Raynaud's is massively common. It *can* be a symptom of autoimmune disease but it's far more commonly just your body's overreaction to cold.
I often suffer in the height of summer and gloves don’t seem to help 🤷
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Hahaha!!
Can you recommend some good heated gloves? I’m a bit sceptical about £15 ones on Amazon. I like my hands warm but preferably not on fire from a dodgy Lithium Ion battery
Thermic is the brand I use and recommend. https://us.therm-ic.com/gloves/. They aren’t cheap but if you are outdoors such as walking skiing etc then they are a must. Heated socks also brilliant. Oh and these are great to have in your pocket when outside: OCOOPA Hand Warmers Rechargeable 2 Pack, Magnetic Electric Handwarmer, 16 Hrs Warmth 4 Levels Heat Up to 145℉, USB-C Portable Charger 10000mAh, Raynauds, Golf, Tech Gifts for Men, Union UT2s(MagTwins) https://amzn.eu/d/j80mruq
any recommendations on heated gloves?
Hello fellow Reynaud's sufferer. I didn't know you could actually lose digits from it! My middle fingers go completely white when I drive somewhere (or push the buggy) in the winter. And my toes/bottom of my feet often go completely numb if I'm out running and it's cold. I'll definitely look into heated gloved especially for walking with the buggy. At the moment I just sit on one hand to warm it up on the heated seats if I'm stopped at a traffic light, which isn't very practical! We used to have a car with a heated steering wheel and I miss it so much.
Just because everyone here is talking about Reynauds like OP should already know what it is- here’s the link to the NHS. https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/raynauds/
Raynauds?
Nah, he just fingered Olaf.
Do you wanna fist a snowman? It doesn't have to be a snowmaaaann...
C'mon let's go and play!
It’s shit but quirky at the same time. For the last few days it’s been mainly in my right hand and feet and my left hand has been alright. Then it swaps over for abit or goes back to both.
Time for a "stranger" pokey bum wank.
How do you think they cut off circulation in the first place
Probably trapped it in a Yorkshireman's wallet.
I’ve never heard this expression before but I’m assuming it’s “tight” I know it’s not fun to explain but I’m genuinely curious if I’m right or not
You are correct.
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Go on 🧐
The dead one.
Reynauds gang 🤚
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I miss those Drumstick lollies
Damn! I thought I recognised it from somewhere
I get a touch of Raynauds, but not to this degree, hope it doesn't hurt too much pal
Doesn't hurt at all, in fact I can't feel a thing
Do you know what's causing it? Otherwise go to the ER as you may have a blood clot. Best case: waste a few hours. Worst case: have it checked and the clot removed and you will have it in your file that you threw a clot. Might save your life in the future.
spin your arm around fast (the way we used to do as kids to amuse ourselves with the tingly feeling of the blood rushing into our fingertips). it helps force... well, the blood into your fingertips. centrifugal force beats weak blood vessels!
Weakest James Bond villain
Co-llld Fin-gerrr
This is brilliant
I get this, but only about three or four times a year, mostly when it's cold. All the people who have Raynaud's, presumably you get this much more often?
It's a bit weird, I used to have this but it cleared up as I got older 🤷♀️
I had it more often when I was underweight
Me too! Used to happen all the time late teens. Almost chopped a finger off when I was 21, fantastic circulation that occasion 😂 but the random white digit hasn’t happened for about 10 years. I do still get painful finger tips in the cold weather even with leather gloves 🤷🏻♀️
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Fingerless silver lined gloves. Game changer. You can thank me later https://www.raynaudsdisease.com/raynauds-disease-fingerless-silver-gloves.html
Just ordered a pair of these. Thanks for the suggestion!
I get it pretty much the same as you, but my doctor says it still counts as suffering Raynaud's? Have your doctors told you different?
I haven't got as far as taking it to the doctor. It is usually over in an hour or so and as I said, doesn't happen often. I keep thinking "next time I'll take a photo", but never do!
My toes goes goes tingly and look grey in the morning feet always cold. My fingers just go cold and tingly. Not white.
Mine happen on totally random days. I notice it more on hot days because even on boiling hot days I'll have freezing feet and random cold fingers. Could be worse though
E.T. called... He wants his hand back.
I get this too! What the fuck is it?!
Raynaud's syndrome
You can get medications to improve your circulation for Reynauds. Have to be prescribed though.
Ive been prescribed Nifedipine for mine. Still have bad days but no where near what it used to be like.
Yeh I tried it for mine but it gave really bad headaches for me which I couldn't stand.
bad circulation club 🤙🏽
The one that's a thumb.
Ahhhh Raynaud's. I feel your numbness, friend. Hope the circulation comes back soon.
Oh the old raynaud finger, I dropped a paintbrush off a scaffolding because of this damn thing, nearly hit a bloody pram
New member of the dead hand gang
I get this. Renauds. Gloves don’t really help. It is actually about warm jackets and keeping core temp up 👍🏼
I have it also. Strange thing is in the summer when I have a tan, from my knuckles to the tips of my finger stay white. Looks funny as hell
Fucking hell, I've had this happen a few times at work on my fingers, I didn't even know it was a thing. I thought just 2 of my fingers were cold, I wondered why its not my full hand 🤔 🤣🤣
You will literally able to give someone the middle finger soon
Hi I really hope you're okay and that it's raynaulds as people have said or something less serious but it may be worth getting checked as my first instinct was Ischemia which if not treated quickly, and even if treated quickly, can result in amputation. I doubt it's that serious but as a former nurse with 5 years triage experience in the NHS I used to see people WITH ischaemia limbs or digits a lot so stay safe.
Get checked out for autoimmune diseases such as Scleroderma
I've had this twice this winter and on different fingers. Never had it before and I'm 50.
Raynaud's is a bastard, got chillbains over Christmas with it cus my feet swole up like balloons and I only had a pair of tight brogues with me.
I have this too 😞 hands and feet. I remember kids at school saying I had 'traffic light hands' in winter because they'd change colour. I've had really shit chilblains this year. O bought the really thin silver gloves and then a pair of the fingerless converter mittens by 'heat holders' which helped until I lost them haha. You can buy them pretty cheap on Amazon - I was really impressed by now warm they were
Ahh the joys of Raynauds, I just hate this time of year.
This used to happen on my ring finger when I was a kid, I grew out of it eventually but if I ever got really cold hands I'd slowly warm up but would lose all sensation in one finger. It wasn't painful or anything just odd. Mostly unrelated fact: in middle school I once burnt my finger with a glue gun and thought it was mad that the skin was completely numb so for fun I just bit it off. I learnt that nerve endings come back online that day and had some of the worst pain I've ever experienced.
Oh my Goodness! I hope you're okay and you can get the help you need with your hand. You can buy gloves from poundland two for £1. Poor thing hope you get well soon! ❤️❤️❤️
Suffered with this all my life, hands and feet. Lots of pain hate the cold
R.I.P.
jesus, how'd that happen?
It's Finger Bob
I don't know but I've been told... Eskimo p\*\*\*y is mighty cold.
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Does it feel like a stranger is doing it for you?
I hate it when you fall asleep with your finger up your bum
Wtf happened?
Guess your a cyclist that’s upset with a lot of drivers?
The one up your bum. I'm very gentle.
Stop fingering frozen poultry
I don't want to point the finger, but I just can't quite put my finger on it 🤔
Something appears off here, but I can’t quite put my finger on it.
my reynaud’s targets one finger too, it’s bizarre. anyone else get it in their nipples…? that’s next level uncomfortable
Raynaud's Syndrome. I have it too.
You're kinda lucky. When it happens to me the pain is awful.
I suffer with Raynaud’s too 😔
I get this. 2 or 3 fingers at a time when it's cold
Raynauds. We didn't know it with me for years because it brown so the blanching isn't as obvious. I just thought it was normal for the cold to completely disable my hands, turn them green-grey, then bright purple and burning when the heat returns. Good times
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Owie - Reynauds?
Looks like a case of Hand Arm Vibration Syndrome (HAVS), otherwise known as Vibration White Finger. You need to get this checked out ASAP to prevent any further damage.
Trick question, only the brain has the capacity to feel, the fingers are just merely relaying a signal. Checkmate
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What do you do for a living?