Autoimmune, Depression, and Gluten Intolerance, Oh My...
It's the day after Valentine's Day and I'm ready for a vacation. I was recently diagnosed with Raynaud's disease, Hashimoto's disease, and more recently diagnosed with Undifferentiated Connective Tissue Disease. I'm tired, I'm frustrated, and I'm sad. I've always had really cold hands and feet. I've always thought it was Raynaud's, but never talked to a doctor about it. After all, it's just cold hands and feet, right? Then in mid November I was on my way home from work and noticed not only were my hands really cold, they hurt, and I had gloves on. My fingertips felt like they were slammed in a car door. And then on inspection once I got home, I noticed they were white. Not like, 'oh, you touched your skin and it turned white for a sec and then back to red', but white white. Like the blood was drained. It took about 20 minutes or so of running warm water over them and squeezing them to warm them up for the color to re