H EVERYONE:
IT'S REALLY COLD HERE; 10 DEGREES. I GET STIFFNESS IN THE BACKS OF MY LEGS (MY THIGHS), ESPECIALLY IF I HAVE BEEN SITTING FOR A WHILE AND THEN STAND UP. IT FEELS LIKE THE PAIN AFTER YOU EXERCISE MUSCLES YOU HAVE NEVER USED. DOES ANYONE ELSE HAVE THIS PAIN? IS IT BECAUSE OF THE COLD? THANKS FOR YOUR INPUT.
lindaz9 That happens to me too. My legs get really stiff I try to stretch every so often. It helps a little but they go right back to being stiff again.
I experience something similar, and mine is called spasticity. I have 2 meds for it: baclofen and valium. I also do an exercise that stretches the back of my calves that seems to help. I stand on the bottom step and then step up on the balls of my feet and count to 5, then hang my feet off the back of the step, and extend my feet downward and count to 5. I try to do this 20 times. It usually helps immediately. I live in a one story house, but have a step up from the garage entry or, I use the lip around the shower as a step. Make sure you hold on to something.
This cold really makes my upper back and neck start to hurt after awhile, and at night my spams in my left leg will sometimes start to get worse. Stretches sometimes help. This week, the temps are supposed to start warming up a bit and get out of this deep freeze we have been in. I sure hope so because I am soooo over this weather already.
Jessie
AGREED!
I’m in sunny California and I get the same pains you describe. ☹️
lindaz9 , it must just be me. My MS does much better in the cold. When we lived in South Florida, the heat together with the humidity made my bones and joints feel like molten lava and the pain was horrible. Here in Northern AZ the dryness is very helpful and on miserably hot summer days I accomplish what I need to by 10:30 a.m. and hibernate the rest of the day in the AC. My husband and I just spent 5 days in the Alaskan interior and every day it never got above 6 degrees and the nights were into the minus, but the cold air was so refreshing and I had virtually no MS symptoms at all, except for the everpresent lack of balance. But I managed on the ice and didn't fall once! A big change from my usual days.
Weather. 
it’s been a rough six months.
Dear MS,
