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Old 08-17-2009, 10:42 AM #1
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btw the humidity is what really throws me. I can deal with some heat, but make it muggy, and I go down like a sack of potatoes.
There are 3 papers out there (not free unfortunately) by Russell Johnson, a meteorologist with MS who made the connection between dew point temperature and MS symptoms some time ago has written a number of papers on the subject. Unfortunately you can't get at the papers for free on the internet. But, in a nutshell, he lays out a framework that shows that humidity is the oft overlooked variable, it's not just about heat. Ken
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Makes perfect sense to me that a high dewpoint would make MS sx worse..After all, when the humidity's up, your body can't cool itself off. Heat index is higher than air temp.
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There are 3 papers out there (not free unfortunately) by Russell Johnson, a meteorologist with MS who made the connection between dew point temperature and MS symptoms some time ago has written a number of papers on the subject. Unfortunately you can't get at the papers for free on the internet. But, in a nutshell, he lays out a framework that shows that humidity is the oft overlooked variable, it's not just about heat. Ken
That would explain why I can do so well in every type of heat imaginable, except hot and humid heat.
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Hot + Humid = Ragdoll

I get really weak on hot and humid days. It's like someone took my bones and replaced them with rubber bands.
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Russell Johnson did a chart of sorts that compares humdity and temperature in one of the papers I saw a long time ago. The bottomline was that heat is a key variable as most suspect, but changes in humidity had a greater impact. But, it's really a sliding scale for both of them with humidity being the more sensitive one. Ken
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