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PMR and cold weather

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paula50188
paula50188

I have PMR and I noticed last night woke up with joint pain and muscle pain and was cold because of temperature change. Walking around this morning helped. Does anyone else get this with the weather change?

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  • EileenH
    EileenH paula50188

    Posted

    I'm worse with damp and wind. If it is dry heat or cold I'm fine.

    The Germans have a bio weather forecast - because they have taken the effect of weather conditions on various conditions seriously for years. There was a study done in the UK a couple of years ago that came to the same conclusion:

    "A 2014 study of people with osteoarthritis (OA) published in BMC Musculoskeletal Disordersasked participants if and how weather influenced their pain. Of the 712 people who answered the survey, 469 (67%) said they were weather sensitive. It turns out that weather-sensitive people with OA experience more joint pain overall than their non-weather-sensitive counterparts.

    A 2011 article published in European Journal of Pain found similar results in people with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). The researchers looked at nine previously published studies of people with RA and concluded “pain in some individuals is more affected by the weather than in others, and that patients react in different ways to the weather.”" 

    Google "does weather affect arthritis" to find loads of links.

  • Michdonn
    Michdonn paula50188

    Posted

    paula, cold and damp effects all kinds of conditions. We moved here in the high desert because our daughter had failed back surgery. The doctors in Boston believed a drier climate would help her and it has. Think positive. 🙂

  • nick67069
    nick67069 paula50188

    Posted

    yes it does , cold makes harder  and stiffness is more pronounced. So what do you do to compensate for it? I make sure that I do some activities that gets the blood going and also dress appropriately when I am just sitting or laying down. I do put extra cover over night as well. 
    • paula50188
      paula50188 nick67069

      Posted

      Thank you nick Iam doing the same thing I do wear socks to bed and heavy PJ's and it works. Thank you!

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