Why are my hands and feet so cold?

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Just that really. I thought it might be due to anaemia but am on iron tablets now and my hands and feet are still constantly freezing. It's a beautiful warm day here today, but my fingers and toes seem to have missed the weather forecast.

Underactive thyroid may be to blame. Have you had your thyroid gland levels properly checked?.

Regardless I would seek medical advice and asap.

Thanks. Doc says thyroid is fine.

Raynaud's?

Thanks, Wilde (and, as always, lovely to see a fellow Smiths fan!).

I looked that up and it says that the fingers go white. Mine don't; just cold.

Do your fingers feel cold to someone else if they touch them? Or feel normal to them but cold to you?

Cold to others, too.

I get this when my thyroid meds are needing increased ( I'm under active )

Last week I mixed up my tablets and was sitting in bed under the duvet wearing two fleeces and was still shivering . I thought I had the flu until I realised what the problem was

I know you said GP said thyroid was ok, but Do you know if they did the full range of tests and not just one ? Do you have any other symptoms of thyroid disease? I know it's hard to tell as many are so general eg feeling tired

Disclaimer -I'm not a HCP

Thanks, Kristina.

It's only ever my hands and feet, not the rest of me. No idea what tests were done tbh, other than that thyroid was declared to be fine.

My other symptoms have been - tingling in fingers and toes (this seems to have stopped), achiness in limbs, tiredness, lightheadedness (fainted a few times) - all deemed to be due to low iron so far. After a couple of months on iron I am no longer so tired that I can't do anything (am feeling pretty energetic actually!) and I haven't fainted, or been close to it, for a month, although I still get lightheaded at times when I'm particularly hot or tired.

I would get your thyroid levels properly rechecked (some GPs can miss this); that could all be possibly indicative of problems with the thyroid gland.

This is a good non woo website:-

www.thyroiduk.org.uk/tuk/

I can't add anything to what Attila has said, other than that you should never accept that any test result is 'fine' or 'normal' without seeing the figures and the reference range.

Thanks, both. Honestly, I've had so many blood tests in the past few months that I'm exhausted just trying to hear, 'Fine' or, 'Not fine' let alone actually understand anything else.

thyroid

phone up and ask for last results. then get new tests done

No chance you might be entering the menopause, is there?