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Riversong 06-07-2011 04:51 AM

Mine is rearing its ugly head.Seems to be worse in the heat...Im running on will power here.Do any of you notice how the weather affects you???

cjr 06-07-2011 04:56 AM

I always feel better in warm weather. Last few days have been will power days for me also. Maybe it is because of the moon. Gotta blame it on something.
Hope you feel better soon.

chairjogger 06-07-2011 04:58 AM

absolutely ! humidity the worst !

take care of yourself.. good food, rest, not over extending yourself.

you have things in life you have to do.. good luck honey in figuring out what makes you feel better.

Ell

kit'smamma 06-07-2011 05:04 AM

Stretch, stretch and stretch some more. Have you tried massage? It ain't cheap but I've found it helpful. Staying fit between flares is important. I've found changes in atmospheric pressure to be a problem for both fibro and arthritis. Mild exercise on a regular basis is essential.

dar627742 06-07-2011 05:05 AM


Originally Posted by chairjogger
absolutely ! humidity the worst !

take care of yourself.. good food, rest, not over extending yourself.

you have things in life you have to do.. good luck honey in figuring out what makes you feel better.

Ell

i agree,humidity is a killer! hope we all make it thru this summer!!!!!!!
take care,
dar

chairjogger 06-07-2011 05:07 AM


Originally Posted by kit'smamma
Stretch, stretch and stretch some more. Have you tried massage? It ain't cheap but I've found it helpful. Staying fit between flares is important. I've found changes in atmospheric pressure to be a problem for both fibro and arthritis. Mild exercise on a regular basis is essential.

Agree with mild excersize. There are varying degrees of this odd "disease/syndrom" .. I hated it when a "friend" said, I just excersize" OK, did you really get a good diagnosis?
But, get moving is important. don't give into this .. it will take you down ! Agree with kit'smamma on this.

Good luck.. so sorry ..

jetnica 06-07-2011 05:12 AM

The heat zaps me. I get hot/overheated and it can take hours for me to get back to normal.

Lately (I'm sure it's wrong!) I've been enjoying a beer before bed - it helps me sleep better, and it's getting me through painting/moving my classroom.

I'm sure without that sleep I'd be a zombie. We're going on day four of the big move and I'm okay. Still going to the gym everyday but the past four days I haven't tried as hard.

Hopefully today is the last big day. Then I can go in on my own and work at a slower pace organizing and sorting. =D

grayma 06-07-2011 05:15 AM

I was out in the heat on Saturday and had a miserable evening. But I take magnesium supplement and that helps me tremendously. Usually my worst time is the winter. Probably because I don't get as much exercise then. I hope you get to feeling better soon!

romanojg 06-07-2011 05:20 AM

I want to share with you something that happened to me personally. For years I'd have all of sudden all over body pain; to the point that I had to go the ER but no one could touch me or help me in the car because it hurt so bad. I go and they'd run test and shoot me up with laugnem and send my home with pain pills and it would be two or more weeks before I recovered completely. Then in Feb 2008; I had this happen (for the last time). When I got home from the hospital and finally made it back to work I had an email from my DIL about aspartame poistening. The symptons was what I had been experiencing for years. I ordered the book Sweet Poisining; and even though I'm a hard sell on many things this book made a believer out of me. The stuff it does to your body. I had drank diet drinks for over 30 yrs and aspartame came on board in the 80's which when I really thought back to it was when my problems began. I went off of aspartame and I have had no bouts of unbearable pain since then; baring my arthritis and degenitive back disease but that is heridity. When I told the specialist he asked me to talk to his group that have fibromyalgia because he can't get them to understand. Aspartame has three ingredients in it and one of them is formalgahyde; I know when I die they will put in me but I don't want it before hand. This stuff is made overseas by a country that doesn't use it in their diet drinks but they sell it to us. I don't know if you use aspartame but it's bad stuff and now I read everything because I've found it in things that don't even say it's diet. I found it in cherry flavored Blistex of all things. Please pass this on from someone who hasn't had to deal with this pain since I made the decision to stop using it. On top of that after 10yrs of using thyroid meds; I no longer have to take them. I feel for you because I kind of know what you are going thru and even with the arthritis I know that the weather has a lot to do with how our bodies work.

Riversong 06-07-2011 05:29 AM


Originally Posted by romanojg
I want to share with you something that happened to me personally. For years I'd have all of sudden all over body pain; to the point that I had to go the ER but no one could touch me or help me in the car because it hurt so bad. I go and they'd run test and shoot me up with laugnem and send my home with pain pills and it would be two or more weeks before I recovered completely. Then in Feb 2008; I had this happen (for the last time). When I got home from the hospital and finally made it back to work I had an email from my DIL about aspartame poistening. The symptons was what I had been experiencing for years. I ordered the book Sweet Poisining; and even though I'm a hard sell on many things this book made a believer out of me. The stuff it does to your body. I had drank diet drinks for over 30 yrs and aspartame came on board in the 80's which when I really thought back to it was when my problems began. I went off of aspartame and I have had no bouts of unbearable pain since then; baring my arthritis and degenitive back disease but that is heridity. When I told the specialist he asked me to talk to his group that have fibromyalgia because he can't get them to understand. Aspartame has three ingredients in it and one of them is formalgahyde; I know when I die they will put in me but I don't want it before hand. This stuff is made overseas by a country that doesn't use it in their diet drinks but they sell it to us. I don't know if you use aspartame but it's bad stuff and now I read everything because I've found it in things that don't even say it's diet. I found it in cherry flavored Blistex of all things. Please pass this on from someone who hasn't had to deal with this pain since I made the decision to stop using it. On top of that after 10yrs of using thyroid meds; I no longer have to take them. I feel for you because I kind of know what you are going thru and even with the arthritis I know that the weather has a lot to do with how our bodies work.

I also do not use any aspartame products,,,,BAD stuff for our bodies...


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