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From: wjr@frog.UUCP (STella Calvert)
Newsgroups: net.med
Subject: Re: Cold Hands, Headaches, and a Question
Message-ID: <626@frog.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 6-Feb-86 18:15:10 EST
Article-I.D.: frog.626
Posted: Thu Feb  6 18:15:10 1986
Date-Received: Wed, 12-Feb-86 20:03:56 EST
References: <194@noscvax.UUCP>
Reply-To: wjr@x.UUCP (STella Calvert)
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Summary: 

In article <194@noscvax.UUCP> bloomber@noscvax.UUCP (Michael N. Bloomberg) writes:
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>   Most of the time my hands are significantly colder than the
>rest of me. I would like to know what can cause such a condition??

With me, it's tension.  And I'll always be grateful to the friend who
suggested repeating "my hands are relaxed and warm" as a corrective.

He passed this to me as a fix for persistent headaches, but it works
for chilly extremities, too.

I passed it on to a friend who had incapacitating migraines, BTW, and
he reported that it almost always worked if he got started on the
relaxation and mantra the INSTANT he noticed that a migraine was
coming on.

Could someone better informed than I post a note about biofeedback in
migraine management?  All I know is that I've seen it work...

				STella Calvert

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