Has anyone else got painfully cold feet?

I'm always cold...esp my feet but mine is due to LOW IRON; I'm anemic. Have you had your iron checked?

My husband says I do, lol. Perceptually, they aren't cold to me, but to others they are. Same with my hands. Mine is pretty consistently the same though, no real changes.

I do!! It is cold here, but even in summer my hands and feet are always cold, and always have been. My hands don't bother me, they warm up sometimes and get very hot and swell a bit, but my feet go numb and then get painful and the only way to get them warm is to have a foot bath. It's only this bad in Winter. Good socks and shoes don't matter. My little toes are all bent from wearing my runners too tight when I was a kid. And they're all blotchy like blue and red. Recently the smaller toes have become swollen and the doctor said just to keep an eye on them. Whatever that means. Anyone have a similar problem? Bit of a weird one!

Also, I only wear heels to weddings and things like that, so, about ten times ever. Usually folk blame heels for foot problems but I'm all about runners. I even stick to runners when I go out. Runners here mean running shoes and skate shoes by the way, that type of footwear

Any help is appreciated, I know it's a circulation problem, my mum was the same, it's always been this way. But it's annoying me!

This might help to know. My problem is not exactly liek yours but my feet get VERY COLD and do to an accident I had a couple years ago I damaged the popliteal artery (the main one running through your knee) so my right leg from the knee down swells often due to poor eating, that time of month, and being up on my feet alot. My feet have always gotten cold and my nails will get purple (even on my hands to at times). I go every 6 months to have an ultra sound, stress test and blood pressure test on my leg and they compare it to the blood pressure in my left leg and both my arms to make sure it is the same as all my other extremeties.

Long story short, I just had my appointment 2 weeks ago for all this for the year and my doctar always tells me it freaks him out because after sitting there my feet will get purple-ish and be ice cold. He has told me from day one just to watch it. I told him it's alwasy been like that and it doesn't bother me and I am used to it. My knees will even get purple and splotchy after standing up a long time. Needless to say, my tests always come back fine and I have never had a problem with the bypass in my leg, and he told me 2 weeks ago blood flow was fine.

He laughed and said as always your feet are ice cold and purple! He said it isn't anything to worry about unless I have pain or get really worried myself. He said some people have a thing where when they get cold their arteries shrivel up. So that COULD be the problem you are having where you are getting cold and they shrivel up? No all the way but enough to effect you this way. I have had to put my feet in hot water before to and take a shower or put on socks at night and wrap a blanket around them to get body heat flowing.

If it get's to bad you might want a vascular test but I have always been cold natured and it's both of my feet that have always been like this but now my right one does get worse and colder since I had my accident.

Just a thought and hope it helps!

The cold makes my hands feel like they're on fire. It's Raynaud's. Check out the link the other poster gave you, as you might have it.

I was always the one who said it is way to hot in here. Lost 112 pounds and I am cold all the time. I go to bed with my feet hurting from the cold. I have been going to bed with socks on....which I usually end up kicking off and have to put them back on again. I used to be barefoot all day around the house. Not any more...feet get to cold. As soon as I am out of bed, I take a shower, get dressed, complete with shoes and socks.

I do! I read that B12 deficiency can be a cause. Sometimes my feet actually go numb in the toes, some toes turn white and the blood isn't flowing well. I've started taking B12 supplements and this has helped greatly. They are inexpensive and I take the sublingal. You just put a couple under your tongue (very mild fruit flavor) and they melt and get into your blood stream. Worth a shot if you keep experiencing this. I get them at Kroger or Wal-mart