The best part of this is my putting 2 + 2 together started with a comment, not by the doctor but by a nurse assistant, that “it makes sense that your feet get cold when you bring them up on the bed at night b/c all your blood pools down when you sit and stand most of the day and when you bring them up, the blood drains out” or words to that effect. I also wanted to add that the success of this may depend on how occluded your blood vessels are and how much you raise the head of bed. And also, that after you get your feet warmed up you can lower the head of bed. If anyone else has success or failure with this please reply.

Well, I talked to someone yesterday who says he sleeps with HOB up already, due to GERD, but still gets pain in his feet from peripheral neuropathy. All I can say is, I do get relief from icy painful feet by putting my HOB up. Perhaps it has something to do with severity of the disease.