cold hands

I'm more keen to know why you my hands stuffed into my crotch. ;-)

hands and feet constantly fucking freezing

My mum has this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raynaud's_phenomenon

Good times.

Yeah I read something about that. Said it was accompanied with a tingling sensation. Then my hands started tingling. Hypochondria, gotta love it! Anyway I don't get the discoloration. And as for the treatment...

Avoidance of any environmental triggers, e.g. cold, drilling, etc. (although emotional stress is a recognised trigger, it tends to be impossible to consciously avoid).

Warm clothing for the extremities such as mittens

Stay in the warm! Wear gloves! Don't worry, be happy!

I think you can trick your thermo-regulation system to relieve the cold hands thing, it's a sign that your body is closing circulation down to "freezing" levels when you're not actually freezing.

Step 1: Open windows and strip down to not-enough-layers on a cold day.
Step 2: Put hands and feet into hot water (use an electric kettle to reheat or run the tub hot or etc to keep it warm).
Step 3: Sit there for a while -- maybe 20 mins? Nap, watch TV.

Having warm hands and feet keeps blood warm and flowing to extremities, so even though the room is cold you don't get low blood temp in the torso (you might feel a little chilly, but apparently that's minor). Overall the body gets broken of the habit of retracting blood flow when you aren't actually cold enough to merit it.

I read about that method in Outside magazine many many years ago but have never tried. Outdoorsy climbers an' shit were happy with it, though.

Danger of funny looks from flatmates. Even funnier looks from boss.

Are you meant to do this just the once? A few times? Often?

My hands get so cold that it's almost painful reaching back to unhook my bra!

I seem to remember the article saying that a few treatments would hold for a while, like maybe a season, or a couple of months? I dunno, see what you think, YMMV.

feet and hands so cold that I think I'll have a shower before dinner.

I totally get this, but then I'm a vegetarian anemic smoker, so it's not terribly surprising.

I totally get this too. In fact I'm experiencing it right now. I went and asked a doctor about it a couple of years ago and they basically told me there was nothing to be done about it, other than wearing gloves etc.

I get this too, and speaking from experience, I think we're all going to die someday.

I also get migraines...probably the same thing. My migraine medicine clears the cold hands and feet thing.