Weather Changes
 

Does it effect everyone else like it does me?

YIKES, the RSD cannot handle the SO CAL heat, loves the cool as swelling is more controllable. The FIBRO hates when the baromater drops. Lets weigh this...Increase fibro with weather changes or RSD heat, whats worse? They are all bad for TOS sufferers.

I really love the heat we get in the Okanagan here. I also have RSD. The TOS hates this changer from summer to autumnn to winter.
Even though the RSD is irritable during the summer here, the TOS is the worst in the fall and winter.
I wish there was a way to have a happy medium.

tos hates hurricanes
 

a bad hurricane season is not good.

My pain events are almost always caused by weather changes. I STILL can't figure out well enough to predict, but I know Winter and Spring can be hell on me here in the Southeastern US. I Know when isobars are close together it's bad and Low's are not good - if they're moving north to south? Humidity changes, temperature changes, wind... it varies.

It's the 'changing' that hurts. Once the weather gets here, the pain has subsided.

:grouphug:

Anne

I've found that its the worst when there is a rapid change from high pressure to low pressure and/or rapid drop in temperature. I'm with Anne on this one- fall/spring are the worst in Tennessee because the weather can't make up its %*%@ mind! :rain:

Hi Dabbo long time.. how are you doing?

D a b b o
 

So great to hear from you! I have been on the FM & RSD forums the last couple of days. Sounds like a slam dunk with barometer drops. Now to figure out what more I/we can do beside MOVE to help the CRPS.

Hey Jo! I've been doing ok - alot of travelling lately, which stinks. Connecticut week before last, Memphis for my high school reunion last weekend, and THEN a business trip to Chicago this coming week. ugh.

hey Cyn! The weather has not been helping lately especially with the travel. Cold, rainy, warming up, cooling off. At least when I :Bang-Head: I have an idea what the result will be!

I live in a somewhat mild climate (San Francisco). It doesn't get in the 30s at all during the winter. Mid 40 is the norm I'd say from November to March.

Problem is we don't have central heat + old Victorian house has single-pane-unweather-proofed windows and only one electrical outlet per room (not enough current to run a ton of appliances even with extension cords) + no direct sunlight.

Do you see where I'm going with this?...
Its often 5 degrees colder than what the thermometer reads outside :ranting:

I kinda hate winter now that I have no circulation going to my hands :icon_cry:

I'M IN DESPERATE NEED OF WARM, THIN GLOVES that I can manipulate typing, turning pages and etc with. Can anybody recommend any? I'm wary of the arthrits fingerless gloves because my fingertips are ice cubes anyway :icon_neutral:

my techniques
 

thursday, my home is finished in only one room which i heat with a radiator which is oil filled electric. after ike it snowed and even that room did not get warm enough. i also have an electric blanket and an electric heating pad. sometimes the only way to be warm was with those. one thing i did was to drink a lot of hot tea. and i would pass my hands and wrists over the steam. when it cools enough i wrap my hands around the mug.

when i was little our home burned down and i remember being cold all winter. some of the things we did was to zip two sleepings together and all pile in with the dog. we were living in a half finished building. i slept over at friends' homes a lot just to get a break from that. we ate a lot of chicken noodle soup. it kept us active during the days.

one thing i do in my little finished room both summer and winter is to buy styrofoam and make insulators for the windows. i covered them with reflective mylar xmas paper. winter, when the sun is shining you can remove and let the sun heat the room. at night they help those poor space heaters manage. summer you put them on in daytime to reflect the heat away from the house.

Thanks tied!! You've given me tip & tools I can use :)

Fibromyalgia
 

Crap, this stuf is full body with the cold. The RSD calms with the cold. The TOS muscle spasms increases with the cold. Love the cold much better than the heat but what about the fibro? So out of control! Cant sleep nights with the RLS or when constipation sets in. Sorry "friends" but its the truth.

can't helput remember
 

there is a cloud over texas the size of a hurricane. i bumped my head on the car door frame and thought i was gonna die from the pain in my neck.

when my stepmom was terminal i remember one social worker telling me how they (the nold ones) drop dead like flies in this weather. this was not helping my depression thinking of dad dying from the weather.

had my exit interview from work today. dad says i am making myself depressed. he can be really mean sometimes. so i sang zippity do dah to try to cheer myself up. then i remembered that was what i was whistling on the day they gave me notice. i just can't win for losing.

oh yes the change in weather = extra cold hands and blue fingers and best of all - MORE PAIN!!!