I am in my 50's and had normal to huge veins until the PN hit....I can go from a normal sized vein to a teeny tiny vein in seconds....some vasospastic phenomenon. A nurse will tell me my veins are great and by the time she comes back with her IV tray....they have shrunk to thread size, the nurse is pale, and I get stuck 5 times and then anesthesia is called to put in the IV....(even if I hydrate). My thesis is all that blood pools in my butt or something.

Cold feet can be good---like for you in the dating scene, when your unemployed boyfriend wants to move in with you, OR for you parents, when your not so responsible son wants to borrow YOUR cell phone because his fell in the toilet. (yeah right) OR when you think about turning the cars keys over. Or when an in-law is planning to use the guest room-indefintely.

I tell my kids, listen to your cold feet.

People with sensory neuropathy have messed up signals from the feet to the brain...or from other parts of the body to the brain...the brain usually works, altho some days, it may seem we are not so smart.

Some days those signals say hot, burning, ouch!! Other days they say, cold, achey, groan.

I shivered thru my biopsy...the doc asked me if I was cold...'nope' nervous, 'nope' I said 'you just gave me a shot of epi and have autonomic neuropathy....voila---I shiver...no rhyme or reason...but I will hang my hat on the epi.'

I have this thing, cute winter socks and hats, and yes, I wear them indoors. A stylish little gnome!