Cold extremities

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Yes my nose is cold right now! Even though the rest of me is warm! I get this a lot. I'm sure people find it odd that I rub and touch my nose when I'm talking to them!

Ooh, that's why people rub their noses!

I'm always cold, especially my hands and feet. I'm miserable all winter. Once I get cold, I stay that way for hours. It's so difficult to tolerate, I'm actually making arrangements to move to a much warmer state.

I have Raynaud’s as does my mom...something you may want to Google...I really hate the cold.

I am so glad to see that I'm not the only one. I'm cold all the time. Especially in the evening. I wear 2 pairs of socks most of the time and sleep with a blanket and sleeping bag at night. My nose gets cold too.

My hands and feet get cold when I'm using the computer, especially my right hand.

I'm always shivering during class and the person who sits in front of me gets irritated because he can feel me shaking!

Yeah i used to have reynaud's syndrome... its when your fingers and toes get so cold that a few of them turn completely white and numb. It happened to me in 50-60 degrees F in california! Just one or two of my fingers and toes would freeze for a while. i needed to move them to get the circulation going. Now that i've been in maryland for several years, it seems my body has acclimated and i never get it anymore. I also got rid of my severe allergies around the time i moved. Either i grew out of it all, or california is terrible for your health

doctors told me to always carry gloves and a hat and keep some of those self-warming packets in my purse (the kind people use for skiing to put in their boots and gloves). never put your frozen parts under hot water because you can't feel how hot it is and you can burn yourself. For me, taking my socks off inside and rubbing my toes vigorously for 5-10 minutes worked better than putting on a million socks. if its your fingers, you can make big windmill motions with your arms.

fun fact: supposedly, Reynaud's is most common in women over 40 who smoke regularly.

i had fun with that one when i was 15!

Not over 40 yet either... and I don't smoke.

Mine go from white to this interesting shade of purple if I'm not careful LOL...hurts like he$$ somedays, especially when you finally start to get them warmed up again...when I was younger it would usually just be numbness..

yeah mine turned purple on a few rare occasions. not to scare you, but doctors told me that if they stay like that long enough, they can develop gangrene. i doubt that would happen unless you had no access to heat though.

I smoke some cigars now and then but I was cold as a child too (even colder than I am now, actually) and then I hadn't smoked a single time of course. And I don't inhale the cigar smoke.

My hands and feet (particularly my hands) can be still cold when the rest of me is fine.

I had no idea it was associated with AS, though.

I keep getting told I've got cold hands/ feet, but I can't say I notice it myself unless I touch someone else. I don't feel the cold either- kind of useful, considering that I'm a Scot.

The whole of all my nail beds are a shade of pale lavender, is that what you're talking about? D:

i don't think so... what i'm talking about looks like a purple hafl-circle poking out from under your cuticle onto the base of your nail.

Oh, what a relief. I was really sort of worried there.

My circulation is bad though.