Advice please! Fingers / hands swelling on longer run 🖐🏻🖐🏻🖐🏻

[Lapsedyogi]

The past couple of longer runs I’ve done, I’ve been outside and it’s been quite cold, and my fingers have ended up really swollen! Anyone else experience this, and any tips for prevention? Do you think it’s the cold?

[Oldfloss Administrator Graduate10]

It can happen

verywellfit.com/swollen-fin...

[Lapsedyogi Graduate10 in reply to Oldfloss]

Thanks, yeah I did google it but there was nothing about cold having an effect - I just wondered. Hoping it improves as I improve!

[Hidden]

This happens to me sometimes- I think its worse when I am warm and lose salts through glistening excessively. I make sure I take my rings off before I run and it always returns to normal within a fairly short time. So I wouldn't worry

[Lapsedyogi Graduate10 in reply to Hidden]

Thanks. I bought gloves so Ill see if that helps or makes it worse. It was really cold those days and I run on a windfarm so it's really exposed. It does return to normal quickly but it is definitely worse, the longer I run for.

[Lapsedyogi Graduate10]

So, in spite of little reference of being related to the cold when I searched google, I have not had swollen fingers since buying gloves. And now it’s warmer I’m runnng for 60+ minutes without gloves and no swollen fingers.

[UnfitNoMore Graduate10 in reply to Lapsedyogi]

I was in shorts all winter, but gloves were a must... I’m still wearing them as it happens, now it’s more because the take the sweat off my forehead so well. Great to hear that you’re over the issue.