It's the sun.

[Guest guest]

Hi,All.

I've been disable for well over a decade. I felt there was some sort of cycle in

my pain status. At times, I could do more, with the same level of pain. During

those better times, I'd start doing little projects around the house. During the

other times, it was an effort to watch TV.

Well after a few years, I noticed I started all my projects in December. And

never in the summer. Also, I noticed when I visited my doc in Nov.-Jan., all I

asked for was refills on my meds. Yet from the end of May to Aug. 1, I was

yelling about pain control.

At first I thought it was the heat of summer that was affecting me. Since I'm

pretty much home bound in a well air conditioned house; that didn't seem to be

the thing. Then it dawned on me, that my pain status had something to do with

the solar cycle. I, then, learned that humans are affected by the solar cycle.

Strangely, when I took melatonin in the summer, it did take away that ungodly

dead feeling you get.

So, I want to ask the group two questions.

1. Have you also notice this solar cycle effect with your pain status?

(Or is all this in my head?)

2. Melatonin does ease my symptoms in summer, so is there another drug that

deals with the solar cycle in humans? (Ya know, some chemical that decreases or

increases with the solar cycle.)

Thanks everybody.

Rick