Hi,
Can anyone identify with this? I don't get white or blue fingers. It happens often when I'm out walking or just when my hands start to feel warmer (I have cold hands and freezing feet most of the time. ) My hands start to feel like they are swollen and throb a little and can feel like they are burning. The rest of the time my palms and fingers are pale. If I hold my hands above my head the mottling lessons.
The same sensations can happen to my feet but they don't seem to get the mottling (I don't think) and especially at night my feet and legs can feel like they are burning (bad enough to keep me awake) and are sensitive to the covers. My feet do sometimes swell up.
Not sure if the photo shows it very well.
Ive posted on different forums and so far had suggestions of Livedo Reticularis, Raynaud's, Erythromelalgia (or presentation s of both) and Venous Insufficiency /blood pooling. I don't know anything about the latter???
I did show pictures to my new Rheumatologist as part of my first assessment and will hopefully find out answers at my revision soon.
I'm just not sure if it is anything or nothing.
I also get all over constant paresthesias which is much more intensive with heat and both things get much better with submersion in cold water (swimming pool for example) but return immediately afterwards. Summertime is spent trying to keep as cool as possible generally in an air condioned room as otherwise I often feel like I am on fire and is totally unbearable. (I currently live in Southern Spain and not looking forward to another summer.)
The paresthesias has responded to corticosteroids but is beginning to return already as the days get warmer.
Thanks.