valhalla@nocturne.Eng.Sun.COM (Tony Danis) (03/07/91)
Can't contact you directly, Mickey, so hope you're still reading sci.bio: Not my hands, but the back of my legs from butt to heel and all around the knee area do appear to become extremely cold; it's actually a prickling, freezing sensation like immersion in frigid water. I've noticed no correlation between eating and the appearance of these symptoms. Please let me know what you think.
rowe@pender.ee.upenn.edu (Mickey Rowe) (03/07/91)
In article <9246@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> valhalla@nocturne.Eng.Sun.COM (Tony Danis) writes: > > Can't contact you directly, Mickey, so hope you're still reading sci.bio: I'm actually surprised that my letter got to you :) > Not my hands, but the back of my legs from butt to heel and all around the > knee area do appear to become extremely cold; it's actually a prickling, > freezing sensation like immersion in frigid water. I've noticed no > correlation between eating and the appearance of these symptoms. Please > let me know what you think. There is a disease (or syndrome--I've heard it called both) known as Raynaud's disease which manifests itself as an abnormal constriction of the vasculature going out to the skin. I know of two people that have been diagnosed with the condition--both of them complain of having very cold hands. Only one of them finds that the problem increases during eating, but I believe he told me that that was a common symptom. I don't know how widespread the disease (or information about it) is since if it wasn't for these two people I'd have never heard of it. I can try to find out more from them if you (or anyone else) would like to hear about it... Mickey Rowe (rowe@pender.ee.upenn.edu)