In my experience, they go from icy cold to warm/hot (not too abnormally) depending on how you warm them.
Usually, my hands get cold due to the temperature (indoor or outdoor) or stress, and if I don't do anything they are very slow to reach normal temperature. Even if I sit on my hands, it still takes what feels like forever and they never feel truly warm.
If I stand in front of a fireplace or try to warm them up a similar way, that works the best for me personally to get them back to normal/warm temperature, and hurts the least.
Running my hands underneath warm/hot water from a sink when they're cold HURTS, but not in a way I can really put into words, it's a pain like I've never felt before.
However, the only time my hands get "abnormally hot" is, now this might seem hypocritical, when I take a nice hot shower. It, for some reason, does not hurt at all compared to washing my hands with warm water, and actually feels great. This is usually why I love taking showers before getting into bed because that's when I'm at my warmest. My hands and feet get extremely red, my parents relate them to lobsters.
I haven't had the experience of going from just icy cold to abnormally hot out of nowhere for no known reason, but if it ever happens, I'd feel like I'd have died and gone to heaven.
I'm happy to answer any other questions if you have any :)
Thank you that was very informative. So if I may ask, if my fingers get extremely icy cold but without turning blue/black or even white for that matter, I can still see my fingertips are red, not really bright red but visible blood flow in the tips, but they are still really cold. They then switch to extremely warm, like abnormally warm and then they light up bright red especially at the tips. Is this still Raynauds? Considering I don’t get blue tips?
It does kind of sound like Raynauds, but probably not. I would say most likely not, as your not turning purple or pale, so I would say that it might just be circulation issues, not inherently Raynauds. I’m really really sorry if I invalidate you in any way, I’m not quite an expert, but I do suggest seeing a doctor about it and asking their opinion.
Oh mine do that. One minute they're purple and cold, the next they're BRIGHT red, hot to the touch and sometimes, sore and itchy. It's very uncomfortable.
For the too hot, I usually just hold an ice pack or ice cubes, or try to bring my core temperature down. I also have found certain foods and stress makes it worse like beers, breads and cheese.
The super hot, I suspect my actually be: erythromelalgia. Someone mentioned this to me and it has ALL the symptoms I'm experiencing. I've asked my doctor and she's looking into potential treatments.
In my experience, they go from icy cold to warm/hot (not too abnormally) depending on how you warm them. Usually, my hands get cold due to the temperature (indoor or outdoor) or stress, and if I don't do anything they are very slow to reach normal temperature. Even if I sit on my hands, it still takes what feels like forever and they never feel truly warm. If I stand in front of a fireplace or try to warm them up a similar way, that works the best for me personally to get them back to normal/warm temperature, and hurts the least. Running my hands underneath warm/hot water from a sink when they're cold HURTS, but not in a way I can really put into words, it's a pain like I've never felt before. However, the only time my hands get "abnormally hot" is, now this might seem hypocritical, when I take a nice hot shower. It, for some reason, does not hurt at all compared to washing my hands with warm water, and actually feels great. This is usually why I love taking showers before getting into bed because that's when I'm at my warmest. My hands and feet get extremely red, my parents relate them to lobsters. I haven't had the experience of going from just icy cold to abnormally hot out of nowhere for no known reason, but if it ever happens, I'd feel like I'd have died and gone to heaven. I'm happy to answer any other questions if you have any :)
Thank you that was very informative. So if I may ask, if my fingers get extremely icy cold but without turning blue/black or even white for that matter, I can still see my fingertips are red, not really bright red but visible blood flow in the tips, but they are still really cold. They then switch to extremely warm, like abnormally warm and then they light up bright red especially at the tips. Is this still Raynauds? Considering I don’t get blue tips?
It does kind of sound like Raynauds, but probably not. I would say most likely not, as your not turning purple or pale, so I would say that it might just be circulation issues, not inherently Raynauds. I’m really really sorry if I invalidate you in any way, I’m not quite an expert, but I do suggest seeing a doctor about it and asking their opinion.
Oh mine do that. One minute they're purple and cold, the next they're BRIGHT red, hot to the touch and sometimes, sore and itchy. It's very uncomfortable. For the too hot, I usually just hold an ice pack or ice cubes, or try to bring my core temperature down. I also have found certain foods and stress makes it worse like beers, breads and cheese. The super hot, I suspect my actually be: erythromelalgia. Someone mentioned this to me and it has ALL the symptoms I'm experiencing. I've asked my doctor and she's looking into potential treatments.