Weather and Chronic Pain

I tend to feel my worse on chilly damp days myself..I thought the pain I was having in my joints was starting to ease up a bit since I've been taking Glucosamine and extra Omega 3 --uh--nope-the weather's turn crisp and cold again and oh, yikes am I ever feeling :-(

Actually, I have problems with migraines with weather changes. When a cold front or warm front moves in and the barometer changes or bouncing up and down, I get a migraine. If it is too hot and or too humid, pressure if either to high or too low and it causes a migraine. Sometimes I feel like a walking migraine and other times I am wow'ed because I can go a week or two without any pain. It is really exhausting at times. So, even though I probably do not have the pain that you are speaking of...I do understand.

My g/f has a severe level of RSD which keeps her in constant pain 24/7 with a few break-thru pains a day.She says she can feel when a weather change is about to occur thru atmospheric pressure changes.When she "feels it in her bones",we check the weather report and it seems to varify her belief.This has been around for years as many people with arthritis or broken joints report the same thing.

Personally the heat makes everything worse for me. Once again, this is the opposite of most everyone else. When I get hot I am totally miserable, this causes me to "stiffen up" with anxiety, causing my muscles to tense, and on and on from there. Not to mention the fact that I have a medication that makes me sun sensitive, so I stay inside as much as possible during the summer and keep the air conditioner on and stay as cool as possible. ~Donna

yup, i live in the tropics and everytime there is rainy season, i couldn't help but sneeze all the time. i don't know why and sometimes it develops into coughs that are so hard that i can't breathe and sleep. it sometimes triggers my toothache.

Yes, the weather does make my pain worse. I get a lot of aches and pains when it is cold. I can also flare up if it has been cold and suddenyl changes drastically to much warmer weather. I don't think the humidity is much of a factor, just the temperature.

yes, weather has a lot of effect on our body.. i have experienced that rainy season and very cold season always aggraves my pain in legs.. especially when cold winds blow during rains, that is the hardest time for my legs.. i once had a fractured leg.. it has been yrs now, the bone has healed but even today in some weather conditions, the pain comes back.

Most of the time I am in pain. I have fibromyalgia and the weather takes it toll when it is too hot or too cold. Dramatic weather changes. It also makes it much harder for me to do things like exercising because I am in so much pain all of the time.

Once upon a time I broke my shoulder bone. It used to ache in dampish cool weather. It hasn't ached for years. Just yeaterdays my horrid knees were hurting , ordinarily they don't work but they only ache and hurt when there is fluid on them. They were actually painful and I had a feeling it was because it felt like it might rain. Sadly, there is no rain inn sight and it is drier than ever...maybe that's what my knees are saying..."hey you...it's still not raining!"

I have arthritis in both of my legs and i have had it for years. My legs get so achy sometimes no matter what the weather is. They hurt even worse when it is damp or rainy outside. I also have restless leg syndrome and sometimes I cannot get my legs comfortable for nothing. The arthritis situation doesn't help matters much either. It makes me have a hard time getting comfortable in bed and going to sleep because I keep moving my legs because they hurt so bad.

i used to think my mom just liked to complain about all the aches and pains she had boy have i ever eaten those words and to top it off i just moved to a colder climate and the pain is horrific when it gets cold i fully understand where you are comming from !

Strangely enough, I get pain in my scar from the Casearean sections I had when it gets cold. It starts as a stinging pain, but then it gets worse and literally feel like I have red hot needles being poked into it. I asked the Doctor about it and he reckons it's damaged nerves. I had no clue you could suffer nerve damage there, but whatever. I just know when it gets cold, and I have to go out - there are days where I suffer.

Oh yeah. I have fibromyalgia. I thought the pain usually just got worse when the weather got worse (cold and damp). I am finding that it is actually anytime the pressure changes up or down. I live in the pacific northwest and it seems to be forever changing.

For me its not the cold or the heat that reeks havoc on my muscles its the wet and damp. I live in a part of Canada where all it seems to do is rain so since I have lived here I have almost been in some kind of pain everyday. It sucks but hey thats life and old age right. You being in Florida I would think that would be an ideal environment for me but I guess not for all though.

Yes I do in my case the Winter is the worst time for me as the cold affects me bad In the Summer I do get breathing Problems but not as much Pain as I do in the Winter

Yes, most deffinatly. I have had chronic pain for 20 some years. I have experience all sorts of weather and the only type that helps is warm, moist heat or dry heat. When the changes a lot I get cranky for the pain digs in and does not let go. I have neuropathic pain, and it is progressivly getting worse and the only season I beg for is summer. It has been raining here a lot and of course my pain is high as usual. But it is much better than -35F and snow.

Oh I can relate to this topic. I can usually tell when the weather is going to change just by the pains I get in my fingers. I think the barametric pressure has something to do with that. Seems right before it turns colder, my arthritis acts up. Humidity doesnt affect me re pain, just brings on the sinus problems. I live in Missouri, and humidity isnt as bad here as FL, but we do get it in the summer months.

When I got to hot I feel the worst. I guess because the heat has caused my body to shake. I take =pills for it but it seems bad for anyone else who has multiple sclrosis also.The winter my feet get in pain though. I think i might have arthrits also.

definetly.cold and pre-rain storms set off my leg everytime.i have arthritis in the leg partially due to multiple injuries-and i seem to be more accurate than the weather forcaster.

The only time I had a problem with the environment is when I worked as a warehouse secretary. It was so cold and damp, even in the office, that my hands often hurt and my fingers would ache long after I came home. It was like that the whole time I worked there and when I finally quit, the pain in my hands stopped.