Winter gloves

https://www.blazewear.com/heated-gloves.html

I have Raynauds. I use the Sports gloves whilst cycling. Off the bike, liners and sheepskin mittens work for me.

happy to report the Sealskin Winter Gloves (4/5 thermal rating) kept me mitts warm this morning,

as did some hot Yogi tea leaves before setting off..

Could it be that you may just need to adapt to it

How does one adapt to cold fingers? I ride every day through all weather conditions, and have been for years. I can HTFU and all that, but I'd rather not have to.

Do you also get cold when you get upset?

The last time I was upset was when my dog died 9 years ago. Life has been pretty good since.

Doc gave me nifedipine for Reynaud's. I never liked the idea of something that relaxed your heart and lowered blood pressure being taken while partaking in, sometimes extreme, cardio activities and as an ongoing treatment for the symptoms of something that wasn't going to go away or get better.

I did try it a couple of times mid-attack to see if it would provide instant relief. I thought it may be handy for times like winter punctures when having functioning hands would be advantageous, but it never seemed to do much for me. Maybe the dosage was too low.

Interesting idea, I'll upgrade my garlic intake starting tonight. Poor miss Hovis.

Cut across, drenched in olive oil and in the oven for 30-40mins. Then you can squeeze the soft cloves out as a very mellow, sweet puree.

Poor miss Hovis.

It's also an aphrodisiac.

Stop flirting

What I was trying to get to was, does it eventually get better?
i.e. You do some riding, and then after a while (due to the neurotransmitters and physiological reactions) your fingers return?
The reason I asked about getting cold when getting upset/stressed is because this happens to Raynaud's patients. Because it's a physiological response...

I don't see how taking dietary blood thinners, where the evidence isn't strong, will help here.

It may be that the vibrations, bar set up, and the cold all act together to bring about this response from your system.

In short: Science.

No place for that here.

In other, sort of related news: I have the circulation of a 15 year old, and I still got cold fingertips wearing liners and lobsters today - I blame cheap metal levers. Also though I guess my point is; sometimes you just get cold, even if you're wearing the right stuff and have good circulation.

Tried podgie?

So carbon levers for everything?

Pretty much. Di2 preferably.

Getting upset means flushed cheeks, and as any scientist will know, the capillaries in the cheeks, gums, fingers, glans, and clitoris all share the same circulatory pump nodule in the medial heart thoracic pseudocortex. Without longterm iron supplementation, supplying all of these sites simultaneously isn't physiologically possible. That's why I use heat visualisation techniques, focusing my radiant thoughts through special prismatic crystal racing shield lenses.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14711458

@Chalfie

I don't know if it'll work for Reynaulds in cold fingers. But it won't do any harm (unlike warfarin).

I see. How do you define eventually? Over a 45 minute commute, it gets progressively worse. Longer than that the pain does die down but the fingers remain cold, (if I touch my cheek it feels like a lolly).

Tried podgie?

I did consider this, but too many bikes. It's a hard life.

Can you focus these onto @Hovis perhaps? Fingers, not clitoris.

He's in my thoughts now. Glans mainly.

I think you need to internalise the cold and seek warmth from within.

I can feel your presence within.

Doing harm depends on your viewpoint of people.

"you're an amber leaf floating on a summer river"

@miro_o when looking for "proof" it's better to use meta analysis.
rather than a single paper.
http://www.cochraneprimarycare.org/search/reviews/garlic