Anyone else get really cold legs and feet (especially in the night)? Plus, do any of you get woken up with pins and needles in your hands?

[Hilda_G]

I take warfarin, thyroxine and sotalol.

[MaryF Administrator]

Hello there, yes every morning I wake up with pins and needles and numbness in both hands,, this goes away once i get moving, normally, Mary F x

[Sue2803]

I agree with Mary F, am exactly the same. x

[ciaronsmum]

I often get woken up in the night with pins and needles / numb fingers

Louise

[MaryH]

I did get pins and needles for a while but it has gone for the moment. The cold legs and feet are another thing!! they are freezing nearly all the time. I now go to bed witih pyjamas; bed socks and mittens - truly a vision of loveliness. My daughter bought me a little dog that goes in the microwave oven and I use that when it gets very cold. Have just re-read this message and I do, of course, mean a toy dog. Love MaryH xxx.

[tassie]

LOL MaryH ...so glad you corrected that

I most definitely have the cold hands and feet most of the time, even on hot days, so I wear extra socks and mittens. Then one foot will overheat and swell and I will have to let it cool off for a bit! Then the process starts again.

I was thinking I didn't get the numbness and tingling so much but now I think about it I do but not the full blown pins and needles type unless I sleep too heavily on a hand or something but i probably don't sleep for long enough stretches now for it to be an issue.

[jessielou]

Hi Hilda

I get the same pins and needles and numbness, takes a while to get moving in a morning. also very cold feet and hands, but do have Raynauds. Quite common in Aps I believe.

Extra socks and gloves. Legs, ankles and feet swell like crazy too.

Take care gentle hugs love Sheena xxxxxxxx

[christinebonner]

hi

i get numbness and pain in my hands must morning but get pins and needles when i use my left hand a lot. i have very hot skin and have to have a fan on all night even in the middle of winter to keep cool plus the heating is turned of at night

[soul22]

Hi i get very cold feet,hands lower lower legs i have raymunds syndrome which causes that.pins needless relates to hughes syndrome im told keeping warm avoids the cold aches........

[CountryGirl]

Not really pins and needles, but I am cold much of the time.

[SharontheSheep]

Hi there

I do as soon as I've been sitting still for a while or lying down for a bit. My doctor reckons it's a side effect from one of my meds! I don't actually buy that

Sharon x

[SandiGray]

my lower legs and feet are always freezing, even when the rest of me is hot

[bevers1]

yes get pins and needles all the time, feet always like blocks of ice. wake's me up numerous times a night. joys of being alive lol

[Hilda_G]

So, I am not alone!

Thanks for all the replies.

I suppose the next question is "is this an APS thing, or is it an age and/or gender thing?"!

[Hidden]

I get a cold right leg and belly at night and cramps and pins an needles in my shoulders and numb hands sometimes. When I get up in the morning the soles of my feet are puffed up and give me trouble standing for a couple of minutes along with pins and needles. I have spent a fortune on buying beds but now I sleep on our sofa which is in fact a top of the range sofa and very comfortable. Still get problems though. I get cold legs below the knees if I sit at a computer for more than 30 minutes which makes things hard because I have to use the internet a lot. I am fine when I keep moving but as soon as I sit down or lie down the problems start. I suspect it is the sticky blood which does not give as much trouble when I keep the blood flowing.

Apparently it is impossible for inflammation to occur if the blood is moving quickly. Hence all my problems at night I suppose.

[Tannyah]

I have incredibly cold feet and hands, especially at night. Oddly, usually a cold nose too. I get pins and needles really quickly and often wake up with a dead arm, which I get confused about in my half awake haze!

[WayneL]

My daughter experiences a whole range of temperature symptoms but the coldness (particularly in the legs and hands) seems to be a common complaint with apls.

She sleeps with a fan going and often uses freezer packs for the headaches,

which she says are a common thing.

Wayne L

[tim47]

Yes. Feet can both be cold, and one colder than the other, and pins and needles in hands not caused by sleeping on the limb.

[dawneo123]

I have sle and aps, but dont suffer from cold hands or feet or pins and needles. Have lots of other symptoms though, but just lately when i get up in a morning my feet hurt really bad, once i start moving around they feel bit better!!!

[paddyandlin]

Hi Hilda

welcome to the group.

I get pins and needles every morning in my hands and feet and both are could from the raynaurds, APS, Fibromyalga and Lupus symptoms

Paddy