It it heat alone that bothers you? Does just humidity at any temperature bother your MS?
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Is it the Heat, or is it the Humidity?
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At this point I don't know.
Right now if I move I'm sweating like I lost my mind and it's freezing here in Chgo.
When it was hot I was sweating like I lost my mind.
Is it possible that I have lost my mind and that's why I sweating like crazy?
Try going through menopause-CRAZY!!!!! Just thank God you weren't a woman! It really SUCKS with this " condition"
I'ma female I'll get there
Sorry?!!??? I really thought you were a guy🤣🤣😅😅😂😂
G o d bless🙏
❤Lisa💕
don't worry about it . in my daily life when people see my real name they assume i'm a male. when i was growing up i hated it with a passion then i when got older i liked it. it lets me know if you know me or not.
my name real name is actually an old European male name . men in their 70's and 80's would have my name now. I had a friend whose father had my name and his mother every time she saw or talked to me would tell me that. My mother actually got the name when she took french . which started my obsession with the french as a whole.
My dad & mom are Eastern europein. My dad was GERMAN & French. Mom was GERMAN&Romanian. So I'm a mutt!!!
that is so kool
BTW my dad fought AGAINST the Nazis!!! I'm very proud to say my dad has 2 purple ❤ 3 bronze stars.
you should be very proud of your father and you shouldn't let anyone take that away from you
I never would've been been so "aggressive" in last post about medical marijuana. I've always (when younger) a "tomboy" that had alot of male friends. So, I'm used to "coming w/2 barrels )loaded !! So, I'm really sorry😞
God bless you rjoneslaw🙏🙏 ❤Lisa💕
Ps. I was an only child that was really trained on firearms!! My dad was in WW2.
I don't recall that post so it's water under the bridge as they say
Thank God🙏 it wasn't really nice...
The heat and humidity bothers me. If it’s hot I can always use a cooling vest but humidity is different.
You got that right!
It seems like they both do.
Definitely humidity makes heat worse for me
Most DEFINITELY!!!
carolek572CommunityAmbassador
Heat and humidity bothers me as does very cold temperatures! I cannot win for losing! Keep Smiling, 
I know RIGHT!!!
Yep, heat —> weakness
Cold —> spasms
Exactly! Keep Smiling, erash
Cold temperatures are REALLY 👎, when you also have raynouds syndrome, caused by yrs of 🚬- that's cigarettes!!! That means my cappillar blood cells are constricted not allowing blood flow to my extremities. Well, this one's on me not MS... Gotta wear mittens in bed!
Humidity makes the heat more unbareable!
Always......!#&$@
It’s usually the sudden change in barometer that effects me most. Humidity is next and then temperature 🥵. Just try and do things in the morning and ac late afternoon 👍🙏😉 Ken 🐾🐾
You and I should go into the weather forecasting business. Any sudden change in barometric pressure brings on a massive headache; the hardware in my ankle is great at telling me about temperature drops.
So does the hardware in my body. I had a right knee replacement plus a spinal fusion all within 7 months. Next I get my left knee done-oh boy I can't wait. Seriously, I wish none of this had to be done. At least, our "body parts"are replaceable!❤Lisa
Heat so far hasn't bothered me much. I can't sit in saunas anymore though. They give me massive headaches. I'm very sensitive to cold though. I have been since having frostbite and pneumonia but it has gotten worse over the years. MS to blame for that???🤔
Hi Peruzzot😊
You can never go in the sauna, hot shower/bath because your MS sx will ,temporarily,get worse
God bless🙏
❤Lisa💕
I haven't been in a sauna in years now. As for hot showers and baths, they don't bother me at all. I am comfortable at temps most people think is too hot. At work there is a constant battle over the thermostat. Some people at work prefer the a/c set to meat locker temps. My hands get so cold that I can't move my fingers. They're frozen. I wear thick sweaters all day while in the office and take it off before going outside to thaw out. Not all MS patients are heat sensitive.
Very true. I wasn't affected by the heat until about 23 yrs, after diagnosis... That's when I had to wear cooling vest & to my wrists.
Hope that never happens to you
God bless🙏
❤Lisa💕
both seem to bother me
It is definitely the heat AND humidity. Even years before I was diagnosed with M.S., I lived moved to southern Indiana, on the Kentucky boarder, I swore weather wise, that was the worst place on earth weather wise. Then I met Florida in the summer. But, I moved to El Paso, and life was good. I moved back to Chicagoland, hot, hot, hot. My winter coat in Chicagoland, a windbreaker. So, years after diagnosis, wanted to see if it was the humidity or the heat. Remembered doing days in the hot sun all day in El Paso, no problem. So took a trip to Phenix when the temperature was really spiking one summer. Over a hundred full time. Loved it. We spent nearly all day outside in that heat, it didn't bother me. Luckily there is little metal inside cars anymore, I remember always literally burning myself on the metal inside the car after it sat in the sun. Okay, I had an old black truck years ago, an ex-military vehicle, metal dash, metal... Anyway, even with M.S., the dry heat, for me is wonderful, Like one skeleton laying in a lounge chair next to another with sun glasses on and saying to the other: "But it's a dry heat!". Kind of like that.
And yes, back in Chicago now there's freeze warnings at night. But it gets warm every other day, and I'm thinking air conditioner! Got to get that 1 room personal air conditioner back in the bedroom window upstairs. No more sleeping in the basement during the hot evenings?
Crazy right!?!? I always say HUMIDITY is always worse !! You can always wear a cooling vest. I'm in OH , 20 miles from Cleveland. After almost 30 or more years w/MS, I'm used to going through "all" the "seaspons"in one day here in Cleveland, since I've been here all my life. I also have kin in Indiana& IL.
God bless🙏
❤Lisa💕
Yes, I've used, and will use from time to time a cooling vest. But when really humid, they only add to the humidity? You wind up like a dead fish! The extra weight, in the thick air?
High humidity does bother me: in the summer heat, humidity makes walking feel like struggling through hip deep water. I also feel as if I can't get enough air in my lungs. In the winter, my legs feel leaden; it requires more effort to walk. The humidity is rarely low where I live, but I am immediately aware when it drops below 30%.
The heat amps up the MS symptoms to a lower level than the last relapse but typically I'm back normal "The Funny Farm" by the next morning. The humidity doesn't get me as much, it's just annoying. When the barometric pressure changes, however, all those injuries gotten through the "immortality" of youth come back to visit... knees, shoulders, titanium neck and so on. I wasn't a stuntman, but the last time I had my feet and ankles Xrayed, they found 8 old, but healed fractures. MC racing will do that to you. But yes, for me the heat is the worst.
It’s the humidity more than the heat, for me. But if it’s both, I’m I’m done for. The other day it was 95 degrees and 82% humidity, so I was a limp noodle all day.
BOTH#!&#$@! Humidity is always worse for me...somethings we just have to live with....
God bless🙏
❤Lisa💕
They both bother me. Heat and humidity make me like an over cooked noodle. Cold makes my legs stiff as a board.
Yes either extreme is a challenge for me.
Both
This is a great subject. During the summer, months before I was diagnosed, I remembered at the art festival I began to feel dizzy and exhausted when the temperature increased. With or without humidity. Cold drinks, cool air and sitting helped.
Heat bothers me some but humidity is the WORST!
I don't need Jose Cuervo to stagger around like I'm drunk. I just need heat. And humidity is so rare where I am, I never get a chance to determin if it has any effect on me.
The heat & humidity combo bothers both me and my hair.
We're twins!
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