tried all sorts of normal and well, peculiar things to keep my tootsies 'happy'. For a while, I actually thought of getting a 'pizza stone' heating it, wrapping it and plunking it under my feet to keep 'em toasty. Kind of like old time Colonial Bed Warming Pans. Nixed it, cause handling HOT things anywhich way isn't healthy in the long run for me.

What I do, when I find my toes are turning blue, no matter what the brain says? Has been to blow my hair dryer on lo and just warm over the skin until it thaws....Usually takes a coupla minutes and you can't fall asleep holding a hair dryer? Then gentle rubs to increase circulation all over with some gentle push-rubs upwards around my ankles where there is mild edema...I push-rub from the heel up to the knee, front and back but UP...not any downwards rubbing. Doing this, I find my feet will stay happy for 3-6 hours. Worth a shot anyone?

Hope this helps - j

IF I can, getting sunlight on my cold feet feels SO good. Slathering them in Baby Oil at the same time speeds up the warming. It's close to Zero degrees here right now and I have a little heater blowing close to my feet. I just got out of the shower so they are already warmed up BUT I am going back to bed shortly since I don't think I got more that 2 hours sleep Tops last night and if I don't get some more sleep this day will be Torture. Night everyone, for a while at least.

Wiix:

I assume you don't take a sleeping aid???

I do and if I didn't, I would be up till all hours. Not from my feet, but I just have never been a sleeper. What a gift it is to take a little "something" (in my case I take Alprazolam, as does my husband Alan, but he takes it because it quiets his PN).

We're like a team. We go into the kitchen at around 11 p.m. We look at each other and we take our pills.

In 20 minutes or so, we are in dreamland. I never knew what sleeping through the night was until I tried a sleep aide. This was about 7 or so years ago. I told my doctor "I don't sleep, I never did". He said "would you like to try an Ambien".? I said "why not?"

Well, it was like getting a christmas present. I remember sitting in my doctor's office and saying to him "do you know what it is like to NOT SLEEP, and then one night you take an Ambien, and you put your head down and the next thing you know it's morning and you had 8 or 9 hours.??"

When you've never experienced that, believe me, it's a gift. Now Alan was a completely different person. Before his PN went nutso on him, this man could put his head down on ANY surface, tell me: "I'm going to take a nap" and VOILA!!!! he'd be asleep in 30 seconds.

I have no idea how some people can do that!! I find this amazing.j

I couldn't do this on a bet.

I'm a thinker, a worrier, and because I am the way I am, well, I take my sleep when I can get it. And alprazolam is so cheap. It's not a sleeping aide, it's kind of a tranquilizer and it calms me down so I just drift off.

I hope I don't need this for the rest of my life, but hey, I'll take what I can get.

Mel

No, ML. I 'm o.k. as far as sleeping. I really can't take any sleep ades, it brings on visual problems for me. As long as I keep to my schedule and stay awake as long as I possibly can, I usually can get to sleep without too much trouble.

But if you let your pets sleep in your bed, like I did last night and both of them restless and waking you up every half hour because they want their Mama to snuggle with them, well, this is the price you pay. TONIGHT!!!! Mama sleeps ALONE!!!!

Naa, I love the little monkeys. But they are starting their "Heat" and they are both NOT themselves.

Wow, didn't know you couldn't take a sleep aide. You're probably better off. I know that probably there will come a day when I have to "stop", but until then, at least I get my sleep.

Got a cute story about dogs. My friend lives around the corner. She's 75 and she has this Shitzu (spelling??) His name is Babe.

He's the cutest little thing and when I go there, he gets all excited, starts shaking and moving back and forth, his little tail is wagging, just the cutest, friendliest dog I have ever seen.

UNTIL YESTERDAY!!!

I'm there visiting my friend and the doorbell rings. She's sick so I got up to answer the door. I see a delivery man with a big package. I open the door and I'm about to say "May I help you??" when little Babe runs past me and practically attacks the delivery man. I have never seen such a thing in all my life. It turns out that he doesn't like the Fed Ex Drivers or the brown trucks. He goes crazy.

So the dog whizzes past me and jumps on the man and nips his hand. I go "Babe, what the heck is wrong with you, stop that'. He didn't stop, He started barking at the man like he was the Creature from the Black Lagoon. My friend comes running in from the kitchen all apologetic and says to the man. "Sorry, he hates delivery people". I just stared. The poor guy said: "I've been barked at by Pit Bulls, but never a little dog like this. The guy slowly backed off the porch but Babe kept at him. I never saw such an angry doggie in my whole life. The guy thought it was funny. THIS IS FUNNY??

Oh, the other dog down the block is Whitey. He's 12 years old and arthritic, he can barely walk. Well, the postman came by the other day and told the owner of the dog, "if you don't get rid of this dog, I'll kill him" When I heard this story (this morning, as Alan and I walked to Dunkin Donuts), I said "wait a minute, the postman is afraid of Whitey???? The dog can't even walk, he's got arthritis". And the owner said 'I swear to god, the guy wanted to kill my dog, because Whitey kept barking at him?"

So what is up with these dogs and delivery people and post men?

I'm telling you, you should have seen the look on my face when Babe raced past me and attacked the Fed Ex Guy. If I were a Fed Ex guy, I would quit my job after that.....lol

Mel

Well ML dogs ARE very protective and territorial.

I used to have a male and female Shitzu. Yes, they ARE the Sweetest things.

i so hate anything touching my feet... at night i keep my feet outside of the blankets... cuz it bothers me...PN... but my feet feel like they are burning... yet they too are cold to the touch... what can do???