Red Hands

[Euphanasia]

I've had this problem where my hands get very very red at times, usually when it is particularly hot or cold. i was in a restaurant the other day with a few friends and it was very warm in there. i looked down and saw that my hands were bright red. i showed my friend and he was like, "holy fuck, what's wrong with you?"

a woman nearby overheard us and she asked me if the knuckles sometimes get purple and i said yes. she said she was an EMT and that i had a condition but she couldn't think of what it was called. i asked her what i could do about it and she said absolutely nothing.

i've looked a bit online and found quite a few hand conditions, but none that matched mine. there's this one condition called Raynauds but that has to do with fingers that turn purple and white and mine never do; the entire top of the hand gets bright red.

the palms are normal.

anyone experience this?

 

[S O F I]

My hands turn purple-ish when it's very cold. I thought that was fairly normal.

But I guess I'm...diseased.

 

[Bobby Sands]

my face turns red if i go into a warm room after being out in the cold.

 

[Jokerman]

You most likely have a slight blood vessel imbalance that you were born with. Or you may have an allergy, most likely the gluten in wheat. Did you eat something in that restaurant before your hands got red? The other choice is you are damaging your liver with alcohol.

Have you had it since you were a child or just in recent years? Do your hands also sweat when this happens?

If it's recent, you should stop drinking as much as possible and take a 50-mg B-complex every day. (Take one either way.) If you've always had it, don't worry about it. You don't seem to have it in it's extreme manifestations. Just lift your hands over your head for a while.

 

[S O F I]

^What about me, jokey?

 

[TheCat]

Sofi ^^

i get that too and i met someone else who had the same thing and told me that its just bad circulation in the hands, because the blood is not moving around enough to mix the warm blood from your body to your cold hands.

 

[Jokerman]

^What about me, jokey?

Everyone's hands turn somewhat purplish when it they get cold.

Prognosis: you will die one day.

 

[TheCat]

actually i got stupid story to go with this too,

when i was 14 i used to do a paper round job, and it was terrible in winter, because my hands would be soo cold i couldnt even have the strength to pull the Brakes on my bike, so i used to used my feet, sometimes falling off the bike.

although one day my hands was killing me so much, even with gloves on, i actually thought about PISSING on my own hands to warm it up, but just as i was about to piss i thought to my self, if i get them wet, they will be even worse later and they will stink too.

 

[S O F I]

Everyone's hands turn somewhat purplish when it they get cold.

Prognosis: you will die one day.

I forgot to mention that my hands are almost always cold, even in the summer.

?

 

[Cooper]

I forgot to mention that my hands are almost always cold, even in the summer.

?

Cold hand syndrome

Eat lots of lettuce.

 

[Jokerman]

Eat lots of lettuce.

Especially iceburg lettuce.

No, Sofi, you just have poor circulation. Are you somewhat skinny? Skinny people have skinny blood vessels.

 

[Flipmo]

My hands turn purple-ish when it's very cold. I thought that was fairly normal.

But I guess I'm...diseased.

I'm the same, people think I have frostbite, but I feel fine lol

 

[S O F I]

Especially iceburg lettuce.

No, Sofi, you just have poor circulation. Are you somewhat skinny? Skinny people have skinny blood vessels.

Yea, I'm skinny.

5'9, 150lb.

 

[Jokerman]

Yea, I'm skinny.

5'9, 150lb.

That's not skinny. That's almost ideal weight for your height.

 

[Euphanasia]

You most likely have a slight blood vessel imbalance that you were born with. Or you may have an allergy, most likely the gluten in wheat. Did you eat something in that restaurant before your hands got red? The other choice is you are damaging your liver with alcohol.

Have you had it since you were a child or just in recent years? Do your hands also sweat when this happens?

If it's recent, you should stop drinking as much as possible and take a 50-mg B-complex every day. (Take one either way.) If you've always had it, don't worry about it. You don't seem to have it in it's extreme manifestations. Just lift your hands over your head for a while.

I didn't eat anything at the restaurant. I used to think they just got really red randomly, but I started to pay more attention and realized that it's when they got hot or cold. And by cold I don't mean outside in zero degree weather, i mean just like your in a cool room. As far as the sweating, I haven't noticed that but I'll pay attention to see if they do at all.

It's not anything recent, I can remember back in high school kids were asking me about it. I remember one particular time I was in a tenth grade math class. That must have been ten years ago.

 

[Duke]

The other day I was scooping out prawns from the boiler with my bare hands and they got all red and blistered.

Jokey, any thoughts?

 

[Bender]

stop wanking so much

pz

 

[Jokerman]

The other day I was scooping out prawns from the boiler with my bare hands and they got all red and blistered.

Jokey, any thoughts?

Of course the prawns got all red and blistered; they were in the boiler! (What are prawns and why eat them?)

 

[Jokerman]

it's when they got hot or cold.

You just have a blood vessel sensitivity where they overreact to hot and cold. It's one of the many variations of Raynaud's. No treatment really. Smoking can make it worse.

 

[keco52]

my hands have never turned purple :wondering:...does that mean I'm fat?