Blue Feet After I Eat

[LindaJoy]

Hi, everyone. I've read here how many of you have blue feet with your Pots, from sitting.

Questions: Do you ever get blue feet from eating?

Does it hurt you when you have it, like a deep ache?

Thanks.

Linda

[juliegee]

Hi Linda-

I often have blue feet. They DO ache when deprived of proper circulation.

I haven't noticed that eating makes them blue- it occurs for me when I am feeling stressed- i.e.lots to do in a short period... Perhaps your hypovolemia is worsened after eating because your limited blood supply is shunted to your GI tract?

Julie

[LindaJoy]

Hi, Julie. That's what I was thinking, too, that my blood volume is low, low, low. It's so weird. I can get rigors after I eat, which was explained to me by a nurse that rigors come when the organs are deprived of blood because the blood is all in one other place, like the skin or GI tract. I just don't know who to see for this. I try to see neurologists, but they say it's not "their problem."

Anyway, I get blue feet from dangling them too long, or in the cold (even air conditioning), and after eating. It makes sense about the blood volume.

Would blood going to the GI tract be considered a fluid shift? And, fluid shifts can cause vasoconstriction, right?

Linda