May 24
Great, now warm weather is bothering me. I’m used to cold weather equaling a fibro flare. So in Utah that means that I’m in a flare from November-May. (It actually snowed several inches yesterday) However, in between the snow there were several 80-90 degree days last week.
For some reason my back/neck/shoulders were just in intense pain the entire time. I couldn’t alleviate it no matter what I did. It hurt to just look at the computer screen. I know that cold weather bothers me, but now warm weather is bothering me. Has anyone else experienced this?
I went to school in Utah and often found when the cool weather let up for a few days the warm weather seemed to bring miserable pain. Anytime the weather changes I usually experience some degree of a fibro flare. Once the warm weather sticks around for a week or so I seem to get over the flare.
Good luck!
Any change in weather, sometimes several times a day, will cause me pain, aches, cramps, sometimes even my blood seems to be made of lead and feels heavy and slow, hitting the edges of my veins and leaving bruises.
I don’t have fibro, I have a sort of cousin illness: Lime Desease with M.E/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) thrown in.
I can tell when there is going to be a storm, even if it’s several towns away or hasn’t even formed yet. And it isn’t by looking at the color of the sky. I think being generaly hypersensitive to a lot of things, perhaps we pick up something with changes in the weather. I know when there is going to be a storm generally 3, sometimes 4, days in advance, simply because my body tells me so. It took me some time before realising there was a relation between my symptoms being agravated before a thunder storm or rain, and the pretty much immediate relief once it was over.
My breething would become increasingly difficult, more brain fog than usual, low blood pressure, and the air just felt… “heavy” and I would feel like I was too weak to suck it in. As you will have understood, I’m no scientist. Nor do I know much about weather. All I know is what my body has tought me. Once the rain clouds finally open up, the heavy bag of potatoes sitting on my head seems to lift, my ears and balance return to normal (well normalish héhé), my blood seems to irrigate my brain that much better…
I think weather changes have a lot to do with health changes. Somehow, that it is changes in air pressure, heat, dryness, chilly winds or anything else, it affects us that much more than other perhaps healthier people.
All I know is that every transition from one season to another is a nightmare and every couple of days before the forecast even mentions big winds or rain clouds, I prepare myself for a long week where I will not be able to work or think and will probably find it increasingly difficult not to be impatient or irritable. ^_^