Medical Symptoms - Symptoms of poor circulation

Peripheral vascular disease which is commonly known as poor circulation has potentially very dangerous long term complications. Today I'm going to describe the progression of symptoms of poor circulation. My name is Dr. Savage. I'm a family practice physician in Tampa. First when you start to experiencing poor circulation which is from obviously the arteries that flow to your extremities you may notice that your hands and feet are cold. You may notice that you have a little pale discoloration of the skin in your extremities. If someone were to inspect your blood vessels did you notice that there is a decreased pulse there? That is because what normally would be a wide artery is becoming more constricted and that is causing less blood to flow to the area hence less warmth and less oxygen and over time that blood vessel constricts more and more. As that disease progresses one would experience a further discoloration of the skin, a purplish type of discoloration, the nerves in the area will start to dysfunction giving it the sensation of pins and needles and as that progresses even further the nerves don't work at all hence there will be no sensation at all and when there is no blood flow at all that extremity dies and it is not possible to recover whether it is a toe or an entire extremity. That is why if you think you might have peripheral vascular disease see a medical professional right away and be evaluated for it because there are treatments that could slow the progress and somewhat reverse the progress. I hope this has been informative. I'm Dr. Savage and I wish you the best of health.