Michigan

[chickflick]

There's actually a name for your aching cold hands, just don't remember it! My daughter has the same problem. I do too, but not as bad as hers. Still hate winter...just the thought of putting all that keep warm stuff on makes me wish for spring! Notice the snow clouds out there?

 

[Olive Hill]

It is a lot to put on.... usually by about January I've got it down to a science though. LOL!

I did notice the snow clouds. I was trying not to look at them, hoping they'd go away if I didn't acknowledge them. LOL!

It's snowing like crazy up by Silver Lake, or so I hear. *hmphf*

 

[MrsChickendad]

Raynaud's syndrome is the hand problem. I have it too. Sometimes, just one hand will get really cold, other one stays warm. If you swing your arm like a windmill, forcing the blood out to the fingers, it sometimes helps. I usually just run warm water over my hands or wrists. It can be miserable.

 

[MrsChickendad]

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Yes, I have RLS also, runs in the family. Thank goodness for Requip!

 

[Olive Hill]

I think you're the only person I've ever "met" who takes medication for it.

I'll be honest ever since I saw the first commercial for treating RLS with meds it all seems a bit... absurd ...to me. I don't know. I just have a hard time with the a-pill-for-everything brigade. I've lived this long with RLS sans medication. I can probably make it another few decades. Most of the stuff they want to give people seems to have worse side effects than what they're treating to begin with.

 

[MrsChickendad]

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I only take it when I need it, like if I can't keep still enough to go to sleep (a few times a month). My Mom had it so bad she had to take meds 3x daily to keep her feet from flying off her legs, or at least feeling like they would! It got much worse as her health failed. It was a godsend for her in her last years.

 

[Olive Hill]

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I only take it when I need it, like if I can't keep still enough to go to sleep (a few times a month). My Mom had it so bad she had to take meds 3x daily to keep her feet from flying off her legs, or at least feeling like they would! It got much worse as her health failed. It was a godsend for her in her last years.

Awww, but some of my best work is done on those nights where, at three am, I can't sleep because I MUST MOVE MY LEGS.

Very interesting about your mom's being worse with failed health. Mine seems to have gotten better with age so far, maybe I'm facing the best years in the face now and that won't last for long. I hope not.

 

[Mom 2em All]

Olive Hill-

Thank you! I am going to invest in those gloves for sure! I have Reynauds syndrome also- and my hands are excruciatingly painful all winter- and if you hit it on something????

My husband has RLS and Requip is the wonder-drug!!! It is soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo hard to sleep next to someone who cannot hold their legs still.

Before Requip, I seriously wanted seperate beds. Twin beds and I was seriousss.

Now, if they could come out with something to keep him from bouncing around all night. I threaten to put him on a SPIT elevated over the bed all the time, then I would just have to turn it to roll him around. He never lies still for more than ten minutes- and cannot ROLL over like a normal person. He bounces.

I wish we lived in a warmer state, but we will never move. I freeze all winter. At least my coop is warm, and my chicken yard is, for the most part, blocked from the freezing wind. I was cold today, watching the ducks swim around oblivious to how cold it was.

 

[cwclub]

fleece fitted sock. I never knew there was such a thing. I may be in love. lol
The water worked fine as far as I can tell because it did not get that cold last night. My only problem with it is my one Polish flies up to the highest smallest spot and pooped down into the water all night. lol Moved the bowl and I hope to keep the poop out.

But I have a new one for you all. We went to Fowl-Fest up in Frankenmuth and a friend of mine was talking to a man there who said he feeds his chickens cat food for extra protein going into winter. I wonder if anyone has heard of that...seemed off because so much cat food is made with...chicken

 

[keyt1969]

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We feed our chickens the cheapest cat food we can find (that's why dollar stores are awesome!) and bar-s brand hot dogs. Talk about some serious protein there! It brought a few of our chickens out of molting much faster too!