I have discovered, in all my wisdom, something worse than heat and humidity, for MS. It's called COLD and humid.

At least, with heat, you can turn on the A/C. to get rid of the humidity....when it's cold, you turn on the heat and the humidity stays.

Rainy, cold and humid together, is now, my new #1 enemy. Anyone knows whats I talkin 'bout?

Up until now I haven't had any problems with cold and humidity. This winter has yet to be seen, though.

Heat and humidity just wither me. And living in the South we have lots of heat and lots of humidity. Just like today.....it's supposed to rain and also be in the upper 80's. It always does this. Teases us for a week or so with beautiful weather and then zaps us with Indian Summer.

I hope this winter proves to be the same as the others. Of course, winter here in GA is a little different than winter in OH or farther North.

Cold, damp weather (such as today) gets me from two directions: MS and arthritis. We won't even mention the mood thing.

I find the turn of any season now to be an adjustment for me. Winters first chill, or fall's first frosty nights bring stiff joints, and I feel like the tin man who needs oil. takes a while to warm up and get going. As the season wears on, i will get better, but those first few days reallys slap me.

I manage better in the summer. As you said a/c is my best friend.

But, for some reason the winter, I can't warm up. The dampness just
seems to stay. One thing I have found out that it is worse here in Ky then
it was in NJ. My feet stay cold, and my nose. Does anyone else always
have a cold nose?

Plus the arth. is getting worse. I turn the heat up and the minute it
shuts off, I start feeling the dampness and start all over again and feel
cold. Keep playing with the termostat.

Jappy

I struggle in the cold and the wet. The hunched-over-cold-trudge-to-the-field-posture really knots my back and shoulders.
We've had the longest, coldest, wettest winter in years. cold cold cold. And me too, my feet are so cold all the time. i wonder if there's any blood there!

I SO need some warmmmmth. Someone turn the sun up please !!

And kick me when I start moaning in about 3 weeks when we hit summer overnight.

I was talking to a woman who worked at a nursery in FL. And she said that they have *hard winters* sometimes. They get frosts, and you miht lose a couple plants. Last year, they had 3 hard frosts!

She does not get Ohio winters. I told her," Our winters can be so hard, you don't just lose plants, you can lose a driveway."



"Saying *winter* in FL is like saying *beach* in Ohio. We have them, but uh.... It's just not the same," I said.


Sally, how about a dehumidifyer? Did I spell that right? Also, you might not mind the wee beasties if you knew how good you'd feel in AZ. I hate spiders and snakes, but I'll cope if it means feeling 10 yrs younger and being able to turn my head, lol.

PE - not so, here. Often the humidity is up when it's cold and my house runs on the damp side anyway. Old, stick, gas heated houses tend to do that.

This morning... it was in the low 40s out, wet outside due to a night's rain and nice and warm inside. But I was dragging (courtesy of the fatigue) ...

perhaps ... the cold humidity was to blame? I began to feel better later in the morning, the sun broke through the clouds.

Can't catch a break!

Niko

I believe you've got it, Nico..

I was going to ask about this too. It rained Friday night and all day Saturday. I woke Sat. morning and knew it was going to be a bad day. I started out trying to unload the dishwasher and get it reloaded with Friday's dishes. Within an hour I was shakey on my feet and barely standing, and breathing hard, just walking back and forth in my huge (8 foot long) kitchen! I went back to bed, slept 3 hours and got up feeling a little better, but I didn't really do anything the rest of the day.

I've never had anything like that before and wondered if it was because of all the rain we were getting. On Sunday, it was clear and I felt almost fine.