RE: Cold weather/Lyndi

[Guest guest]

Dear Lyndi: (Warning: Another one of my long, rambling posts)

I'm with you. I can't tolerate the heat and humidity, either. I grew up in the

Mojave desert in CA and it seems so funny now that I used to ride my bike and

run around outside when it was in the low 100's and think nothing of it (other

than, 'gee...it's hot'). In my late teens, I moved to Cheyenne, WY and it was

another really dry desert. Even dryer than the Mojave. Lived there for 5 years

and then moved to Council Bluffs, Iowa. What a rude awakening! Iowa is HUMID.

In the summer when you'd walk out of a door to the outside, it would feel like

getting hit in the face with this huge wall of moist heat. Those two and a half

years were some of the most miserable of my life.

Then we moved to Colorado for another 2.5 years. It was back to dry heat and

dry cold there. Then off to the Seattle area. We were there for 18 years. I

was quite surprised to learn that despite all the rain, it is not a really humid

place (except when it's raining). The summers are hot and not too bad. It was

tolerable and my body really adjusted to that climate. I had trouble with the

rainy months because the barometric changes would cause the arthritis to flare,

but it's a well kept secret that the Seattle area is rainy only half the year.

The rest of the time it's beautiful.

From there we moved to central NY and it was another rude awakening. We had

been misled by the people that recruited my husband to that area and were told

the the climate was very similar to Seattle area except that you got more snow

in the winter.   HAAAA! Not only are the summers hot and humid (almost as bad

as Iowa), but the winters were horrific. We'd have 3 to 5 feet of level snow in

our yard from late December to the end of March! Come to find out, Rome, NY is

called the 'snow capital' of NY state. It's sits right in the path of the lake

effect snow bands that pound snow most of the winter. Rome, NY was the worst

thing that ever happened to my physical condition. Not only did all that cold

do horrific things to all of my broken, arthritic and degenerated places, and

the summers nightmares of never being able to get cool enough (no central air

conditioning), but the lack of decent doctors wreaked havoc on my conditions and

things

flared that hadn't flared in years.

It wasn't until we moved here to PA that I finally found some decent doctors,

but the damage is done. I'm in the worst shape ever. Those 4 years in Rome

were devastating. My current rheumatologist said that I should have been

receiving treatment for my flaring sarcoidosis at least 2 years ago.

Weather wise, this area (Lancaster county) is super cold in the winter (so far

not nearly as bad as Rome for snowfall) and is super hot and humid in the summer

(at least we have central air conditioning). I can't wait for my husband to

retire so that we can go home to WA. *sigh*

Thank goodness we got out of Rome when we did. Now, when people ask where I'm

from, I just say 'Seattle area' without even thinking...like those almost 4

years in Rome were a nightmare that I'd like to forget.

Well, sorry for going on and on again. Can't help it. Got nobody to play with

so tend to ramble.

Hope you all have a decent day!

- PA

In summer, it's illegal to ditch all of my clothes and go to work. :-) I

can take the heat up to about +35C (95F), as long as it is a dry heat.

Heat and humidity together are something I've learned I just can't

handle. I'm looking forward to moving back to western Canada and

escaping the midwest US summer humidity.

Lyndi

[Guest guest]

I am SO glad to hear I'm not alone! People in chronic pain have been in

shock for years when I tell them that the HEAT makes me hurt. Most of them

are like lizards, they LOVE the heat, LOL. For me, yes, the changing

weather of winter (and any extended time outside in the cold) brings pain.

BUT, far worse is the pain in the summer that makes both my RSD and Fibro

flare up and about drive me insane at times.

I live in Arkansas, so I'm not sure if it's the heat or humidity that causes

the RSD and Fibro to flare up, but I tend to hibernate in the summer, only

venturing out after dark.

Marta

Lyndi wrote:

In summer, it's illegal to ditch all of my clothes and go to work. :-

[Guest guest]

I'm definitely a lizard! I LOVE the heat and humidity because I feel 1000%

better. I live north of Boston, and we are over our heads in snow (more on the

way) and it's been cold. The cold makes me hurt so much more and I think it

goes without saying that shoveling snow is one of the most exhausting and

painful things ever. I don't really belong here but I can't go anywhere for a

couple of years. As soon as I can I'm heading south to warmer climates.

I envy people who love colder weather because if I were like that I wouldn't be

so continuously miserable.

Doren

> In summer, it's illegal to ditch all of my clothes and go to work. :-

>

[Guest guest]

I wish sometimes that I could stand the heat, but it is not to be. I've even

passed out just walking from the house to the car. the

heat just kills me.

And I am in CONSTANT pain unless I stay INSIDE in the AC all the time.

It's sorta sad, in the summer I keep it about 73 degrees, but in the winter

everyone wants it up to 80, LOL

Marta