Dear LPG,

Have you noticed how even during the past decade our winters have been much kinder than we in the UK have been used to?  I heard that on the news recently and it came with the warning that global warming is affecting us all. But despite all that, as the days get colder and I get older my feet, if nothing else, can tell when winter arrives.

I doubt that I am the only individual who suffers from pins and needles, which are there all year but become more acute during the winter for some reason.   I think that I have learnt to live with it, but the people around me tell me that I mention it quite a bit which is annoying and worrying.  They get fed up with me mentioning it and, in the back of my mind I worry that it is getting worse although it does not affect me too much.  

A year or two before Covid-19, when it was relatively easy to get to the doctor, I mentioned it during a consultation but although it was there then it happened but not as often or severely.   But that was then and now that it happens more often, often enough that I keep mentioning it to the annoyance of my housemates, I do plan to see what the doctor can tell me over the phone, if I ever get through.  In the meantime, I took a look online and found quite a bit of information about why it happens and what can be done about it. Perhaps the doctor told me all this when I asked but you can’t remember everything. 

I firstly found out that unlike cramping pains, pins and needles are more of an indication of what is happening with our nerves and not our ageing muscles or bad circulation as I thought.  I found some information about why it happens, how it happens and what we can do to minimise it and thought I should pass it on but if it is happening to you, I suggest that even a telephone consultation might be the way forward…

NE, Rushey Green.

NE offers the results of her research…  

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