merrygirl
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Hi I. Am having what I think is raynauds. Icey cold legs froM my mid calf down, cold nose, and hands. Its so cold it hurts. No color changes that I can see. Nothing but hot showers do anything. I am hypothyroid and type 2diabetic. And lyme of course. What can be done? Thanks.
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These are a few of things that I do to help manage these symptoms:
One is that i take a few drops of yarrow tincture a couple of times daily....I leave it in a few tablespoons of hot water for twenty minutes and drink down.
Yarrow is helpful for micro-circulation. Perhaps it is just my imagination, but it seems to me that the severity of white/numb cold hands has decreased since i began doing this.
I rub yarrow/rosemary oil on my extremities....you could make this with a couple drops of pure organic essential oil into safflower oil (safflower is especially helpful for circulation).....or you can make your own oil with the raw dried plants soaked in safflower or olive oil (or another that you feel affinity with.)
I also purchase re-usable hand warmers via the internet. They are non-toxic plastic with something in them which when squeezed, creates heat. My boyfriend and i both use these and find them very helpful to keep hands warm. Some companies make these in different sizes for different parts of the body.
This company above has usa made product and are higher quality than some of the others we've tried.
Those are some of the ways i manage to keep extremities from going white and numb.
Peace and ease, riverspirit
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blinkie
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I had that until I did a course of chloroquin/primaquine. Now, I no longer have cold hands and feet and nose. Some other symptoms that got better with that treatment came back. But, the cold hands/feet did not.
It was such a relief. I personally think I had a mild strain of malaria that was causing it.
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Exercise helps ,sauna, what helps the most is to live in the warm climate. You have to address the infection, hit it hard with antibiotics.
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lymeinhell
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Excerise. Rebounding could be extremely helpful - really helps the circulatory system. You can get a small trampoline quite inexpensively.
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blinkie
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nefferdun
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I had that last year when I was treating bartonella. Those symptoms are gone and now I am hot much of the time, treating babesia.
I just could not get warm. I turned the heat up to 75 degrees and sat under an electric blanket - still cold. Like you said, the only thing that helped was a very hot bath.
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merrygirl
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Thanks everyone.
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Have your ferritin checked. Even if not anemic, iron deficiency can cause symptoms.
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