Hands so cold you could cry... anybody else suffering?

my tack shop had them in for about 6.50
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Hi,

I also suffer from raynauds disease. Some people don't understand how painful it can be (has reduced me to tears many a time). Feels like needles stabbing all my fingers.

I find that wearing plenty of layers, ie. thermal layer, two fleece jumpers and two coats (yes I do), neoprene lined wellies and thinsulate gloves help. Also as soon as I arrive at the stables I do jobs which increase body heat first so my core temperature rises, then I am able to do less energetic jobs without my fingers turning white. Somebody actually said I wasn't actually as big as they thought when they saw me in the Spring without two coats and several jumpers on.

My fingers have actually been worse recently at night in a centrally heated house sitting still, but holding a cold knife and fork!

Your situation sounds terrifying though, so take care. Perhaps take a hot drink with you and mobile phone.
 
I suffer from Raynauld's too, and even sitting in my GP surgery this morning, my fingers were just so painful...
I lost all my gloves when we changed cars this year, so recently bought some thinsutae gloves, and they are worse than useless. Might try some sealskinz ones.
 
I get Reynauds too, and one thing that has helps me control it in my hands is making sure I keep my forearms and wrists well covered and as warm as possible. I have mini leg warmer type things that I wear all the time and it makes a noticeable difference to the time before my hands "go".
 
I suffer like that too so great to read all the options above as I'm running out of ideas and have been groaning and moaning out loud at the moment when go to scrape the ice off my car of a morning and that's with 2 pairs of gloves on! My fingers also split open just by the top of the nail too...though I apply quantities of industrial strength handcream.

I wondered if there's any good dietary options as well that helps improve circulation or is it dodgy veins at fault? (We have heritage of varicose veins/poor circulation in family). My sister suggested I try and get more iron into my diet to see if that would help (think she was thinking healthier corpuscles might mean more oxygen to cells, etc).
 
I second sealskin gloves..£25 ish lasted a winter, dexterious enough for buckles etc. And also putting your gloves on warm hands before you get out of the car/leave the house etc...And having gloves in every pocket of every coat so if you do get wet, you can changed as soon as possible..I suffer in a similar way and it is not easy, so sympathies...
 
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I suffer like that too so great to read all the options above as I'm running out of ideas and have been groaning and moaning out loud at the moment when go to scrape the ice off my car of a morning and that's with 2 pairs of gloves on! My fingers also split open just by the top of the nail too...though I apply quantities of industrial strength handcream.

I wondered if there's any good dietary options as well that helps improve circulation or is it dodgy veins at fault? (We have heritage of varicose veins/poor circulation in family). My sister suggested I try and get more iron into my diet to see if that would help (think she was thinking healthier corpuscles might mean more oxygen to cells, etc).

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i have done so much research on it as have been at my wits end! caffine you should steer clear off - so i drink hot water. think just eat as healthy as possible to keep arteries clear etc etc. need to keep your blood thin!

increase circulation seems to help me - need to get your blood flowing

its just so important to keep yourself warn. layers really good. rate silk!

silk gloves i found some on ebay fairly cheap.

other thing is when you try to wram your hands - don't go to extreme temperatures as this sets it off also - slowly warm them
 
Frozen hands means that your body is deliberately not pumping blood to the area as a strategy to stop you dying of cold. So putting even the best gloves on frozen hands is unlikely to be effective unless you can get your core body temperature back up to something your body feels is high enough to risk pumping lovely warm blood back to your hands! Even if you put the gloves on BEFORE you get cold, they cannot keep heat in that isn't there! A couple of days ago I had all sorts of gloves on to try to stop the pain in my hands that was so bad I thought I probably had frostbite lol. The only thing that warmed them up was taking the gloves OFF (yeah, I know!) and getting stuck into the mucking out. The horse-warmer is a great idea though! Brace yourself Sunny!
 
I also say seal skinz - with or without silk gloves underneath. I have the same prob and at the moment it is -7 here during the day but I am not having probs with the seal skinz when out and about. If you are not doing dextrous work you could also go to a mountineering shop and get some mits for arctic conditions.
 
sometimes not even my sealskinz are warm enough. I have tried layers but have to be careful what I layer as even if they are plenty big enough they seem to somehow squash my fingers and that hurts real bad.

The other thing I found was that holding metal shavings fork etc made things far worse so I put layers of vet wrap around the handle which helped too

I've got the thick riding sealskin ones which are lovely really a little thick but I manage all but the most fiddly of jobs. I would like to know if the knitted ones are as warm as they look easier to do things in.

My biggest pain is mucking out cos I pick a lot of the muck up with my hands, I wear some gloves similar to garden ones with rubber palms and fingers. They are thermal too from country wide £4.50 I found i can wear a cotton pair underneath these too. These are mostly enough, just the odd day when my fingers scream at me, wasn't even the coldest days either so who knows why!!
 
Sealskins didn't work for me either, in fact I think it made my hands worse, thinsulate works much better for me.

A good tip I heard about was to rub a muscle rub cream such as Radium-B into your hands before exposing them to the cold, haven't tried it yet myself though!
 
Due to YO's dog having a tendency to eat gloves....I dont like to spend a lot on mine, but have found the BEST gloves have been cheap winter cycling gloves courtesy of Aldi/Lidl. They were about 3 quid and are thick, so v warm, and splash proof so dont get cold when washing buckets etc.

I've also got 2 pairs of tesco mens gloves that were also about £3 (in the stores at the moment) that are a double fleece layer, v thick and v warm, but as fleece not waterproof and if you get them wet they get v cold
 
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