Originally Posted by cyclelops

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!

Originally Posted by MelodyL

Hi, just wanted to share what I found out about cold hands and feet.

In the stores around here, they sell this item called HOTHANDS hand warmers.

You open up the pack and you put it inside your gloves and it makes them nice and toasty for 10 hours. Here's what the package looks like (I haven't opened it up yet): It does say on the back, to be careful if you can't feel hot things. So I wouldn't put this directly on the skin, but on top of the socks?? well, why not??



So my thinking is: "if you can put them in your gloves, why not just slip them on top of your socks, put on a loose pair of shoes, (or even in the house, put them inside your slippers)??? Around here, they cost 50 cents a pack, and each pack containes two separate hand warmers. I can't wait to try them out.

Worth a try, right??

Melody