Do your hands get cold easily?

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Yep but my ears are the worst effected by the cold. Same with my mum.

It happens a lot that my hands get cold. When everyone does not wear gloves anymore, in spring, I still wear them. In autumn I wear the too, when hardly anyone does.

For me, it really depends on the situation. Sometimes they get cold really easily and stay cold, sometimes they don't. Usually its late at night that they get cold, or early in the morning.

fingers get freezing cold and can hardly move them often,even in a warm house,they've always been this way,they're very swolen fingers as well,often get comments on how big they are.
used to wear thinsulate gloves,but they were bad to wear as am would rip holes through them when hand biting and the tracking pad on laptops do not read movement with gloves.
so got tough partly finger less wheel chair gloves which help with both problems.
was told to go doctors when once mentioned this on wp,but never got around to it as have always had too much stuff going on.

I've always noticed my hands are inconsistent with the rest of my warm/coldness levels. Like when I am nice and warm my mum grabs my hand and determines I need a jumper on.

And I sometimes need to wear gloves in winter (note winter = maximum daily temp is almost always (at least 95% of time) above 10 degrees C, minimum temp is almost always above 0, it doesnt snow here) in the morning to be able to write


On a slightly more technical note, my boyfriend knows a little bit of first aid stuff and was amazed at how cold my hands can get, and he did the thing where you press down on the skin at the end of my finger to make it go yellow/white and count how long it takes to turn completely pink again, and he said I was by far the slowest he'd ever seen (apparently its meant to be less than a second, in winter it takes like 10, i figured this was normal )

I'm thinking about getting a heated mouse.

There is an interesting theory that blood levels of nitric oxide are generally low in autism/aspergers. Nitric oxide is very important signaling molecule in the brain.

But also, nitric oxide is a major control system for the opening and closing of arteries. (Incidentally, it is also nitric oxide that is responsible for erection: viagra works by increasing nitric oxide in the penis, and this causes the arteries to dilate and open, thus bringing in more blood).

So if you have poor circulation you you hands and feet, it might be because your arteries are a little on the contracted side, due to low nitric oxide.

One way of raising nitric oxide is to drink beetroot juice, which is high in nitrates, and these nitrates help produce nitric oxide.

Beetroot juice is also a good treatment for high blood pressure (when your arteries are contracted, blood pressure goes up; when your arteries are relaxed (dilated), blood pressure goes down: Drinking beetroot juice lowers blood pressure.

Meditation also naturally increases nitric oxide in the brain.