Re:living With the Temperature Sensitivity of Fibromyalgia & Chronic Fa

[Guest guest]

Stacie,

Oh my word do I ever feel your frustration with the temperature

roller coaster! I live in Orlando and it is the exact same situation

here with the wild swings from one day to the next between muggy and

disgustingly humid high 80's to a high of 50 the next. We have the

heat on one day and the air conditioning the next! It makes it so

much worse with FMS. I especially find the Florida humidity to be the

MAIN trigger and factor in my FMS flares. Our goal is to try to move

to a drier climate in the next year. I can deal with the cold dry air

and in fact, see a significant drop in my symptoms with the cooler,

drier air. It's just far too seldom that we in central Florida have

that pleasure.

Take care,

Cheryl E.

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> Can you only imagine how much worse it is now with the seriously

fluctuating temperatures outside. Here in Texas we went for 80

degrees to freezing rain in a couple of hours, then snow. Not just

anywhere in Texas but only a few miles north of the ocean, the deep

south. Then the next day it was 80 again. This week it has been

freezing with wind, and tommorrow it is supposed to be near 80 again.

My poor body is so confused.

> Even staying inside doesn't help, because my body can sense the

change a day or two before it happens. The difference in temp the

difference in humidity the difference in high pressure. Good grief

I'd like to just be shot right now.

> Stacie

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[Guest guest]

Our ability to maintain internal homeostasis is challenged by weather

changes, temperature fluctuations, travel, stress, etc. Anything that

forces a change upon us can make us worse - go into a flare or collapse

from exhaustion. It's a brain thing, I'm sure of that now! Whether a

virus has attacked part of our brain (hypothalamus?) or our nervous

system, who knows? One day researchers will figure it out! - Dom

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> Stacie,

>

> Oh my word do I ever feel your frustration with the temperature

> roller coaster! I live in Orlando and it is the exact same situation

> here with the wild swings from one day to the next between muggy and

> disgustingly humid high 80's to a high of 50 the next. We have the

> heat on one day and the air conditioning the next! It makes it so

> much worse with FMS. I especially find the Florida humidity to be