My right hand is cold...

[Starberry]

It always gets like that when I'm at the computer, either reading or typing, for a long period of time. Anyone else experience this?

*Jen*

[frogprincess]

put it down your pants.

[sNyx]

sit on it bitch!

ooops, I mean put it under your bum.. girl.

[Starberry]

Jerks.

I was being semi-serious. I think it has something to do with my left brain functioning more than my right when on the computer...or vice versa.

*Jen*

[junglequeen]

^really?
mine gets that way too

[Lady Dame]

i get the exact same thing... when i am on my live journal or writing for a really long time, my fingers, toes and my nose gets really unhealthily cold and then i feel like i am being posessed or something and then slight depression.... same for you? as if your soul is being drained.

[sNyx]

I get the same thing too.. its from improper arm resting.
I would explain, but heh..

[Starberry]

Cool, so I'm not super strange!

I can't remember, because I don't know too much about biology, but I remember learning once that if one side of your brain is operating, the other side, including the circulation of blood, slows down. Oops, so if that is the case, then it wouldn't it be my right brain doing all the work then....?!?! I'm confused. Someone smart come and clarify.

*Jen*

[Starberry]

Originally posted by sNyx™
I get the same thing too.. its from improper arm resting.
I would explain, but heh..

Are you sure? Cause then, why would only the right get cold? When typing, my right and left arms are resting at the same places.

*Jen*

[shorerider]

maybe it is because your arm is elevated above your heart. try wiggling your fingers or finding a position with your arm lower down, or, "sit on it, bitch"

[Starberry]

^^ That still would not explain why the right is cold and the left is not.

*Jen*

[shorerider]

are you typing or just mousing?

[Starberry]

Aw man! I was counting on you to answer this when I started this thread!

:239:

*Jen*

[Starberry]

Heeeey...where'd her post go?

Cheater. You coming up with a theory, you evil genius you???

*Jen*

[Joanne]

sorry jen... I'm kinda stumped :(

but I highly doubt it has to do with the theory you just described, because even if it were correct, I'd think the differences between the temperature of each hand would be negligible.

it sounds like a problem that has more to do with your vascular regulatory function...

--Joanne :P

[Starberry]

Both. Typing a paper and mousing through F&K....
Are you on to something?

I think someone should conduct a study on this...

*Jen*

[vangroover]

now that i think of it.....my right hand is colder as well

[Starberry]

Jo....oookay. I will just continue being cold.

*Jen*

[Joanne]

Originally posted by Starberry
Heeeey...where'd her post go?

Cheater. You coming up with a theory, you evil genius you???

*Jen*

LOL!

sorry, I deleted my original post because I thought it was very unhelpful... so instead, I decided to post my personal opinion instead, seeing as I'm learning how to do peripheral vascular assessments tomorrow!

--Joanne :P

[Starberry]

Aha! See...everyone is admitting to it now. "It's an issue that effects society in our technological world and should be explored further".

Tell your profs!

*Jen*

[Starberry]

Ooooooh peripheral vascular assessments.....more fun than a barrel of monkeys!

*Jen*

[kAyB]

that doesnt happen to me.. well sometimes my nose gets cold but my hand never gets cold..but my wrists do start to hurt sometimes..

[shorerider]

Originally posted by Starberry
Both. Typing a paper and mousing through F&K....
Are you on to something?

I think someone should conduct a study on this...

*Jen*

Left hand moves around more, therefor getting more bloodflow. Wiggle right fingers more.

[All!e]

for most people there right hand will be colder [righ handed people] whereas a lefy's left hand will be colder.

because you do not type the whole time, your "stronger" hand is left just laying on the mouse [which for most set up's is higher on the computer table] which means it will get less blood.


OR you could be like me and have poor circulation


* Allie

[Joanne]

so I had my lab in peripheral vascular assessments.. I was actually used for the demonstration and my teacher found that my left knee is colder than my right knee. the reason is because I had surgery done a few years ago which changed the vascularization of that area... so... have you ever had surgery on your right hand before? if you have, it may be the culprit.

another possible explanation is perhaps your right hand is doing so much work that it's actually impairing the circulation, thus making it colder?

--Joanne :P