Gerrans I went ahead and picked up some Solaray Niacin No Flush Capsules (500mg) hexaniacinate from the local nutrion shop. Is this one okay as far as its makeup and quantity or do you think the niacinamide would be even better?
http://www.amazon.co...=solaray niacin
Up until now I had thought that the problem was possible "chronic venous insufficiency" and was taking supplements to combat it.
I do not know that make. I do not take niacin, as such, because I hate the flush--though I should maybe try the no-flush type. I do take a decent B vitamin, so I get some niacin and (thiamine). I take it at the same time as niacinamide, because it is possible they go well together, from what I have read.
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I have been all round the blocks thinking I had this, that, or the other syndrome causing me this sometimes ridiculous tendency to get cold. But, really, feeling the cold is a common condition enough. (My dad and grandmother had chilblains, so that is genetic.) I feel a bit embarrassed, now that I am in the same boat, to have spent a lifetime laughing at the people I have known, mostly women, who go through life like walking fridges. For a lot of people, it is part of the human condition. Maybe we were never designed to live this far north.
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My days of bravado about "not feeling the cold" are over. This has been since a slightly frightening experience that happened to me one evening. I was sitting up late at the computer and fell asleep. Later I awoke physically shaking. I put all the heating on full blast and stood in front of a blower, and I think what shocked me the most was how long it took me to warm back up--when I thought it would take only a few minutes as usual. I remember then thinking "If I am not careful, this is how I could die".
Not long afterwards, an old couple down the road were found unconscious by the health visitor in a state of severe hypothermia. They were both in hospital for three months after that, and the lady was then moved to a home. Gordon, the chap, told me the details, and he said a heating pipe in the house had frozen without them knowing.
This brings me back to the possible reason the hot water bottle works for me. As you say, it is adding new heat to the feet all the time, whereas socks might just hold cold or moisture in when the extremities cannot generate enough heat of their own. I learned from my hypothermic incident that warmth is not just about immediate circumstances but about the balance between core heat and peripheral heat over time. The colder we get on the outside, the more precarious our core heat becomes, as it approaches a tipping point. Usually the core wins, however cold our fingers feel, by robbing Peter to pay Paul; but if it, too, starts losing heat, then our overall ability to warm back up is compromised, and warming up must take longer. So I have realised the reason my feet are less prone to getting cold during the day this winter is that I probably give them a head start by roasting them all night. Feeling warm in the moment, I now grasp, is a 24-hour operation, like running a storage heater.
Edited by Gerrans, 11 February 2015 - 12:23 PM.
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