Hi all-
I finally have a functioning computer again (yay), so I apologize for not being able to respond to my last post a few months back (and thanks to all those who gave advice).
I just noticed last week that I've aparently started to exhibit Raynaud's phenomena in my hands and feet. I was a bit shocked to find that my hands had gone blue-purple and white in spots while the water turned cool in the shower. It only lasted a few minutes and then they turned a scalded red color before blanching back to normal. Granted, my definition of normal is vastly skewed, but I knew this was Raynaud's on sight. Now it seems it doesn't take anything major for them to discolor like that (sheer morbid fascination caused me to run my hands under cold water to see if I could reproduce this and determine that this wasn't just some random fluke thing that my system loves to throw out from time to time...and yes, it happened again)--even the normal temperature we keep the apartment at seems to do it.
Is this normal for Raynauds? I haven't been to the doctors since we moved from Illinois (we're in Maryland now due to my fiancee's civilian job with the Navy). Is this even something worthy of making a doctor's appt for? I know they can't dx lupus or classify lupus with this even given my other positive labs in the past. I don't have health insurance right now (was going to wait until we're married in June) and I don't even want to guess what the labs would cost if they re-did the bloodwork they always do when I go to a new rheumatologist. Any advice?
Thanks for listening
Envy
I finally have a functioning computer again (yay), so I apologize for not being able to respond to my last post a few months back (and thanks to all those who gave advice).
I just noticed last week that I've aparently started to exhibit Raynaud's phenomena in my hands and feet. I was a bit shocked to find that my hands had gone blue-purple and white in spots while the water turned cool in the shower. It only lasted a few minutes and then they turned a scalded red color before blanching back to normal. Granted, my definition of normal is vastly skewed, but I knew this was Raynaud's on sight. Now it seems it doesn't take anything major for them to discolor like that (sheer morbid fascination caused me to run my hands under cold water to see if I could reproduce this and determine that this wasn't just some random fluke thing that my system loves to throw out from time to time...and yes, it happened again)--even the normal temperature we keep the apartment at seems to do it.
Is this normal for Raynauds? I haven't been to the doctors since we moved from Illinois (we're in Maryland now due to my fiancee's civilian job with the Navy). Is this even something worthy of making a doctor's appt for? I know they can't dx lupus or classify lupus with this even given my other positive labs in the past. I don't have health insurance right now (was going to wait until we're married in June) and I don't even want to guess what the labs would cost if they re-did the bloodwork they always do when I go to a new rheumatologist. Any advice?
Thanks for listening
Envy