Hey, everyone,
I’m having a weird situation I wanted to run by you before I see my doctor on Friday.
For the last ten days or so, my hands have been turning dark red to purple. Also having some tingling and pain in my hands. My legs and feet are also tingling and aching, but no discoloration in my feet.
This doesn’t seem to have anything to do with temperature. The weather in my area has varied wildly of late (light snow yesterday, this coming weekend is supposed to be a high of 82). If I raise my hands, they return to normal color. But if I put my hands palm down on my desk or at my sides, they turn purple almost immediately.
I went to a quick care facility last night. They said, “Yep, they’re purple. Could be Reynaud’s”, and referred me to my PCP.
I’m not on any prescriptions. The only thing I’ve done differently recently was I started taking an l-citruline/l-arginine supplement in mid March for some mild ED. I’ve also been eating a lot of watermelon. I had tremendous improvement with the ED, and thought everything was good, and then the hand and leg issue started. It doesn’t make sense to me that blood flow would improve in one area, and get worse elsewhere, but I don’t know. I stopped the supplement a few days ago, though. After some searching, I learned that this type of supplementation is frowned on by Peat.
Right now, one of my big concerns is having a lot of tests done, the doctors say, “We don’t know what it is”, and then I owe a bunch of money (I have pretty lousy insurance).
Any thoughts as to what I should have them test for?
I’m having a weird situation I wanted to run by you before I see my doctor on Friday.
For the last ten days or so, my hands have been turning dark red to purple. Also having some tingling and pain in my hands. My legs and feet are also tingling and aching, but no discoloration in my feet.
This doesn’t seem to have anything to do with temperature. The weather in my area has varied wildly of late (light snow yesterday, this coming weekend is supposed to be a high of 82). If I raise my hands, they return to normal color. But if I put my hands palm down on my desk or at my sides, they turn purple almost immediately.
I went to a quick care facility last night. They said, “Yep, they’re purple. Could be Reynaud’s”, and referred me to my PCP.
I’m not on any prescriptions. The only thing I’ve done differently recently was I started taking an l-citruline/l-arginine supplement in mid March for some mild ED. I’ve also been eating a lot of watermelon. I had tremendous improvement with the ED, and thought everything was good, and then the hand and leg issue started. It doesn’t make sense to me that blood flow would improve in one area, and get worse elsewhere, but I don’t know. I stopped the supplement a few days ago, though. After some searching, I learned that this type of supplementation is frowned on by Peat.
Right now, one of my big concerns is having a lot of tests done, the doctors say, “We don’t know what it is”, and then I owe a bunch of money (I have pretty lousy insurance).
Any thoughts as to what I should have them test for?