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raynards and chill blains

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gosh i already have my first chill blain of the season. are any fellow suffers also subject to painful things and are they common in fibro

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Hello Moss, I have heard that people who suffer from Fibromyalgia are prone to having Raynaud's Syndrome and similarly people with Raynaud's are more prone to having Chillblains, so I think therein lies the connection.

I am sure some of our members who suffer from either Raynaud's or Chillblains or both will post and add to this discussion.

I hope you feel better really soon Moss, take care. (((hug))) xxx

Libs

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hello Moss

mine actually started with raynauds and arthritis then fibro.now think i ahve something more becasue of new symptons (dercums)which doctors havent heard of.

rose

Hi Moss i have suffered from raynauds since i was a teenager and often got chillblains but as i have got older i've learnt to keep warm and i'm always moving my fingers and toes to help i have done it for so long that i'm not aware i'm doing it. I always wear gloves when it's cold. I can be lovelly and warm yet hands and feet nose and bum are always freezing. I would keep yourself wrapped up and as warm as you can. Take care xx

Me too Moss, already have chilblains and my Raynards have kicked in since the cold weather started. I wear sheepskin mittens as they are the only things that keep my hands reasonably warm. I constantly have numb fingers, sometimes even when I am indoors. I got in the bath the other day and my feet were blue. We are lucky enough to go abroad in January which helps, otherwise I am stuck with this now till late spring. I feel really mean, but if I meet someone in the street I daren't talk for long as my feet turn to stone. All we can do is try to keep warm. They say it's going to get colder next week, possibly with snow, not good news for us sufferers. xx

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I suffer with Raynauds which is so painful in its own right. But I also have no working pulses in my feet and gout. Because of the pulses, or lack of them(caused by smoking) my toes swell to at least four times their size and turn blue and almost black. This is because they are filled with blood apaprently that cannot get out of the toes again. The only way to combat that for me is to start taking aspirin once a day to thin the blood. It works but then the toes split and the skin starts to fall off, extremely painful especially if they heat up. But everyone I have come across with fibro also has Raynauds so I would say there is a link. I hope the pain eases soon xxxxx

Hi

I always had chilblains and Raynauds when I was young (my Mum also had both), also pains in my feet during the cold weather especially my big toe which I thought might have been gout but apparently not, then all those symptoms eased when I reached the menopause and my sensitivity to cold seemed miraculously to disappear, but now I have fibromyalgia and joint pains such as bursitis and tendonitis.

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