Why are my hands always cold?

[inveterate]

No, I'm not dead inside.

 

[aidanjm]

you know what "they" say - cold hands, warm heart

 

[uberman]

My gf says my hands are always warm. I think I've had a physical before where the doctor felt my hands for temp, maybe not, just thinking it might have happened.

Your question is probably a good medical question.

 

[ElFenix]

you may be a woman.

 

[DrPizza]

Unless I'm mistaken, you just don't have that good of circulation to your hands. If you do hand exercises, perhaps you can build up the amount of muscle & circulation to your hands. Get some of those strength grip things (that you squeeze to increase hand strength) and maybe that'll help. Of course, I'm not a doctor, and I may be completely wrong. Anecdotally, whenever I finish a bottled water, I'll alternate between hands trying to crush the bottle (with the cap back on). Squeezing a bathroom scale (without leaning on it), I can usually get it to between 250 and 300 pounds. I haven't seen anyone else get above 150 or so. "Kung Fu grip" is my joke. I have snowball fights with my kids - I don't need to wear gloves to keep my hands warm.

 

[aidanjm]

maybe you could try to improve your circulation in your limbs, by changing the type of fat in your diet, more olive oil, less margarine/ butter, more fish, etc.

 

[sniperruff]

your hands, feet and nose are your body's extremities. when your body is cold, blood circulation will cut off from those areas to maintain your body temperature at your core (namely, brain and organs). just put on another sweater and you should be fine. that's why you see frostbites on mountain climbers and sometimes they become amputated when blood is entirely cut off from their hands or feet.

 

[SVT Cobra]

poor circulation to your hands, and muscle growth won't really help that, just something you have.

 

[FatJackSprat]

I have the same thing, my dr. told me a long time ago that it's something like "Raynor's syndrome"

I can't really remember exactly what its called, but he said some people just react to temperature changes worse than others.

 

[BillyBatson]

Originally posted by: ElFenix
you may be a woman.

rofl

 

[MustISO]

My hands are often cold.

 

[cker]

Do you smoke? Cigarettes can constrict blood vessels, leading to cold extremeties. I got the 'good god, your hands are cold!' a lot when I smoked; now, not so much.

 

[KRandor]

Originally posted by: FatJackSprat
I have the same thing, my dr. told me a long time ago that it's something like "Raynor's syndrome"

I can't really remember exactly what its called, but he said some people just react to temperature changes worse than others.

It's called Raynaud's Syndrome... It's something that runs in my family too - and I think I suffer from it too - even though my doc says otherwise... (I always have circulation problems in my hands - and sometimes my feet too - (lots of 'pins-and-needles' etc.)).

 

[j00fek]

Originally posted by: SVT Cobra
poor circulation to your hands, and muscle growth won't really help that, just something you have.