Quote Originally Posted by buttercup132
Also I have a disease in my hands and toes I'm not sure how to spell it and I'm not going to attempt but it starts with a R and it's where the blood cells dotn get to your fingers and toes properly so my fingers and toes are ALWAYS cold even in very hot temeratures and get cold very fast!
I believe you're referring to Raynaud's disease. About a month ago, I was going through one of our large medical books looking for reasons for the pain I was having, and I randomly turned to Raynaud's and thought "ohh, I have this!". It's when your extremities go cold for unknown and known reasons - like, if you touch something cold, your hand goes cold, but why does it take 10 minutes for it to warm back up in a normal enviroment?

Here's a website I found, and it's referred to as Raynaud's Phenomenon.
http://www.ccohs.ca/oshanswers/diseases/raynaud.html


I, too, am ALWAYS cold. Before I lost so much weight, I was always fine - I hated warm weather because I'd easily get hot. Now, I'm not liking this weather so much because I can never warm up! Friday morning, we were clearing out the garage of a house and because I just had surgery less than 2 weeks ago, I could lift the boxes or files just yet... so I was just standing there. I stood there so long, shivering, that every part of me was cold to the bone. I was in an out of consciousness, and it took me more than 3 hours to get back to "normal" with the heat on, a blanket on me, and drinking something cold with caffeine to try to get me to perk back up. I was slurring my speech, my eyes were glazed.. it was really freaky, my mom was scared to death. But I stood outside, in the garage (which was better than standing outside of the garage, but still, the garage door was up) with a sweatshirt, shoes, and jeans on, and I even put on a coat over my sweatshirt - I was SOOO cold. Everyone else was fine, which shows that I don't tolerate the cold very well for some reason. My fingernails are almost always purple - no sense in painting them! I was in the ER room a few weeks ago, and my doctor was disturbed that my skin was yellow and my fingernails were purple - she pushed on the skin around my ankles and it didn't go white or red - just stayed yellow... and she looked at my hands and pushed on the skin, and it stayed the same colour.. and she was like "that's not normal". Oh well.

Audrey, I suggest just bundling up! Googling your symptoms won't be wise. If you're worried about this, talk with your doctor. They can do a simple blood test and see if something is wrong.