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#1 2021-11-30 16:43:41
- Loohan
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fingertips numb after cold exposure?
Raynaud's disease
https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/176713
A person with Raynaud’s disease experiences pain in the extremities, for example, the fingers, when temperatures drop.
Blood vessels narrow and almost completely shut down. Fingers or toes turn from white to blue and, then, as the blood returns, they flush red.
Also known as Raynaud’s syndrome or Raynaud’s phenomenon, Raynaud’s disease affects 5 to 10 percent of Americans, but only 1 in 10 seek treatment. Females are an estimated nine times more likely to be affected than males...
There is no cure for Raynaud’s disease, but there are ways to manage symptoms...
I never heard of it until a week or so ago. I have had middle fingertips turning numb for about 5 years. First just the right fingertip. I thought it was peripheral neuropathy. Symptoms fluctuated but recently after taking a cold shower most of my fingertips including thumbs turned numb, and some fingers were white halfway down the second section! The worst it had ever been. I had never even noticed white fingers before (nor looked for them).
That's when i did some web searching and found out about Reynaud's. Several sources all agree, there is no treatment, just resign yourself to keeping your hands warm.
Then i did a search "Reynaud's TCM", and read to moxibust one's navel area. Well, i had some moxa sticks sitting around gathering dust so i tried it. So far i only did it for a few minutes 3 times, and the symptoms are virtually gone for now. I do the 2 points below the navel too.
The weird thing is, no-where in my searching could i find mention of the DELAY phenomenon. If i took a brief cold bath, swim, or shower, i would not notice numbness until several minutes after i got out. It would then start mild and in some cases build up for some time, then slowly go away.
And merely dunking my hands or arms in cold water would do little. But if i got my back etc wet it was another matter. I have sometimes soaked my arms in a very cold stock tank, all the way to my shoulders almost, for several minutes (when my arms ached) but that did not cause much numbness.
I never experienced pain, just numbness. It would also happen a bit if i went on a longish hike in sub-freezing weather with inadequate gloves.
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#2 2021-12-01 10:40:48
- Mark
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Re: fingertips numb after cold exposure?
There are some who claim it can be lack of vitamin B-12, I dunno.
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#3 2021-12-02 01:56:15
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Re: fingertips numb after cold exposure?
Yeah but that is not cold-related.
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