Your warm-up plan
Pale, blue, then red
Thaw and TellYour cold-finger colour log, read plainly.
When the cold comes in, some fingers go white, sometimes blue, then flush red as they warm. Jot each time down - where you were, which fingers, the colours, how long - and the pattern starts to show: what sets them off, and what brings the colour back.
Not medical advice. Skin that breaks, darkens or will not heal, fingers that stay pale or blue for hours, or changes in one hand only need a doctor promptly.
1 Your log free
2 The hand free
3 Ask for the reading
One run groups your episodes by what set them off, lists what your own lines say brought the colour back, and gives three gentle warm-up moves aimed at those settings - plus a note to take to a doctor when the page's check calls for one. The page then re-checks the reading against your log.
The reading - none yet
-The page's check
4 Saved logs
How the page reads a log
Each line is one episode. The page looks for colours (white or pale, blue or purple, red or pink), the first minutes or hours given, the fingers named (thumb, index, middle, ring, little, or all of them), whether it was one hand only, and six kinds of setting: cold things held, wet hands, vibration, stress, a warm-to-cold change and cold air.
The check runs in a fixed order. A sore, broken or darkened skin, or an episode of two hours or more, comes first: see a doctor soon. Otherwise one hand only, or a start at age 30 or later: mention it to a doctor at a routine appointment. Otherwise: a warm-up plan.
The page only matches words, so it can miss a colour written another way - read the tally with that in mind. Warm numb fingers gently: lukewarm water, under the arms, or swinging the arms. Never hot water or direct heat, which can burn skin you cannot feel. This is a log reader, not medical advice, and it never names a condition.