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Cold hands and feet

Lottie89

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Type of diabetes
Type 1
Treatment type
Insulin
Is this diabetes related? I've been diagnosed for 7 months and I've always been a warm person but for the past couple of weeks my hands and feet have been frozen.
For instance tonight at work I had the heating on, underfloor heating on, fluffy socks and a blanket and my feet and hands were still like ice consequently making me cold. My boss came home and I asked her to feel my feet to make sure I wasn't over reacting and she's concerned.. It's just not normal.

Does anyone else have this? Can I do anything to help? Should I call my DSN?

My bloods were in range and I don't suffer from neuropathy.

Any advise would be hugely aopreciated xx
 
for gods sake, you live in the UK, of course you're bloody cold you need to migrate to aussie land.

thermal underwear and more food, if weights an issue, LCHF
 
Hi @Lottie89,

Have you had your thyroid checked as cold extremities can be a sign of an underactive thyroid.. Sometimes Type1s have other autoimmune conditions to contend with.
 
AS Catherine says. have your thyroid checked if you haven't already Your symptoms are classic underactive thyroid.
 
I had my thyroid checked in May and it was fine then. Do you think it could of changed since then? DN said she didn't think it was diabetes related but I should ask my doc for full bloods anyway... I just think it's too much of a coincidence x
 
Lottie89 said:
I had my thyroid checked in May and it was fine then. Do you think it could of changed since then? DN said she didn't think it was diabetes related but I should ask my doc for full bloods anyway... I just think it's too much of a coincidence x
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Of course you thyroid can have changed since May. Something obviously has changed as your hands and feet are so cold now.
 
I have always had cold hands a feet, and had to wear multiple extra jumpers, only since being diagnosed with diabetes and underactive thyroid at the same time have I started to feel almost human again. My daughter asked me if this was why I have been tired 'like her whole life' (she's 15). I still wear more clothes than most people in my office, but I frequently get my outer layer off. I would get it checked again, also my GP thinks I'm fine a a level that's much higher than the Endo, he said 1-2 she says 5 is fine, I know that I feel good at 1 any higher and I feel rubbish again, I'd felt rubbish for so long that I just felt this was normal, now I know it's not!
 
I have always had cold feet and hands. As soon as weather changes they go like ice blocks especially at night. I do have other conditions that don't help

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When I get cold feet (only in the winter) I generally find my blood sugars to be on the low side, not dangerously low hypo levels but around the 3.5 mmol mark.
 
I suffer from really cold hands and feet, I have Raynaud syndrome. speak to your doctor. I take 5mg Amlopidine (sp) and whilst it doesn't cure it, I think it does help.
 
Cold hands and feet is certainly a symptom of winter.

It could be a bunch of things or nothing. You can see a doctor but check for other symptoms of hypothyroidism if you need re assurance.
 
Yes it's normal if you're type 1, im the same with my feet, even when i got the gas heating on flat out, my feet are like the antartic! Haha
 
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