Spending time in AZ for a number of years during the winter I still knew when the pressure changed. Didn't feel any better that way. I believe that Louisiana has the least pressure changes. I read that somewhere.

I understand - I have pn pain everyday, but mostly just very light pain that I can live with easily. What I term a flare up is when it gets notably worse over a period of hours or days.

This is always when a storm is approaching or during one and the pain becomes more intense and more frequent. No flare up has ever lasted more than a week for me, as it slowly returns to my normal level of slight pains, but when the flare ups do occur, it is horrible! The only other times I have flare ups of pn pain is when I get sick with a flu or something.

Thankfully though, I notice that I'm feeling better as every month passes and the flare ups that occur every month are getting less painful than the months before it. I thank God for that.

I am a lot worse on stormy, damp, dark days. I almost always need extra medication on those days. Not sure that I want to move to louisiana though!

My husband travels there on business a lot and he loves it because everyone can pronounce and spell our last name (he is French-Canadian). We would both miss the seasonal changes too much to move.

I remember when weather forecasts always made a big deal of mentioning the barometric pressure. They only seem to do that during hurricanes now. Too much high tech stuff with all the moving maps, etc. obscuring the information.

Nope, I would not want to move to Louisiana either. (No offense to anyone who is from there). I like the four seasons but winter less and less as CMT has taken so much from me so I cannot enjoy winter anymore.

Not only do my wrists crack I hurt all of the time but much more when there are pressure changes. I can always tell when rain, snow, you name it are coming.

I kind of think that moving to dry warm areas would be better for pn victims, since less humidity and less rainstorms are the norm. But don't know if the heat has an effect on temperature either.

What seems odd is that lots of older people retire to Florida, but Florida, (from what I see on TV) seems plagued by ravishing rainstorms and high humidity -not ideal weather for old folks I would think.

Yes, there is less humidity in the warm dry areas. However, the dry conditions, and they are dry, suck the moisture right out of a person. There is a T-shirt I saw which had two skeletons sitting next to a rock and it said, "But it's a dry heat". How true that one is. In those warm dry areas there still are pressure changes and so they do cause aches and pains and hurting for some people.

As far as Florida, I guess some people like it and others don't. And it depends where you are in Florida. Whatever works, works.

We were in las Vegas and Hoover Dam in July five years ago. Since we live at the northern edge of the Chesapeake the humidity here is terrible so I always believed the dry heat saying, but it was 115 degrees, and it hit you like a slap in the face the minute you set foot outside. We drove to the Grand Canyon and the temperature dropped 40 degrees, it was amazing. There are obviously limits to the benefit of low humidity. We are going to Vegas this May to drive to Bryce and Zion national parks, that was our 25th anniversary trip and this is our 30th. I hope the weather is more moderate in May than July.

The weather should be fine. We were there in February a few years ago and it was great then too. Las Vegas is certainly a hot place in July but a decent place in the winter. However, I would not want to live there either. Las Vegas has changed tremendously since the time we went there for our conventions. Too many people and not a safe place to be anymore. At the time we were going you never had to worry about walking anywhere. Crime just didn't happen. Kids were not allowed on the game floors, people dressed to the hilt and great stars and shows to see. Not so much anymore. Everything changes I guess.

Here are some elevation statistics of different parts. Grand Canyon is 7,000 ft. depending where you are so it would be cooler than say Las Vegas. Las Vegas is 2,030 ft. Hoover Dan is 1,232 ft. Henderson, outside of Las Vegas is 2,402 ft. Boulder, outside of Las Vegas is 2,500 ft.

Enjoy your trip.

Jesse welcome to Neuro Talk only joined a few days ago and love it. I know forsure the weather plays a big part of the way I feel no question about it. One of my specialists also has fibro she tells me some days she cant even come in to work I live in Alberta Canada the weather can be -40 on one day and -10 the next when it changed in such a short time it is the worst. Like you know we dont allways have the option of not coming to work or shoveling of walks lol

Ha!

There was no reason at all why I would feel considerably more pain yesterday. Nothing alarming, (say, from a 1 to a 2) but it still made me go "hey?" and "Ouch!". Especially after everything constantly getting better, as reported elsewhere.

I am feeling great. I did not change my diet, I watch what I eat like a hawk, I didn't do any physical work that I didn't do in the last 90 days, I didn't take new supplements or stopped taking others, nor did I change dosage, no new medication, no more or less stress, no special events during the day or the days before, no different footwear.

What else is there? Natural progression? Would be a very sudden one.

As far as I can figure out, nothing that could explain it.

Except... the weather changed to low pressure, with lots of rain, for the first time in many many weeks. My wife came home and mentioned she... had tired feet. She looked at me and went "More pain? It's the weather."

As much as I keep thinking "it must be an old-wives tale" (hmmm, that is starting to sound very politically incorrect... anyway.), I really do think that the change in weather changed the symptoms, and I feel I'm in a good and calm position to conclude thus.

Now gimme back my sun!