Joint aches and weather changes

[VickyG]

Hi, friends!

As a person with RA I often experience joint aches during weather changes. When the sun follows the rain and vice versa, I sense it even before it happens. Has anybody else similar experience?

Vicky G.

[Gina_K]

rain! I get much more achy when its going to rain. They say a change of more than 10 degrees affects RA sufferers. (whoever 'they' are)

Gina.

[Hidden]

I haven't got the weather thing yet but i have only been diagnosed a year and look forward to seeing some kind of pattern!

[cathie]

Yes I feel the dampness. Also a big improvement when I moved from the Thames basin to east coast Scotland weather may not be Mediterranean but it is invigorating

[sylvi]

vicky, hi, yes i know when its going to rain. I had a ra nurse who sadly died a couple of months ago and she told when i had come back from spain in agony that the extreme changes in tempreture will affect ra. I always seem to be stiff when its going to rain. I've got it more now as i've got fibro as well.

sylvia. x

[marief]

Hi Vicky,

Yes, the weather really affects me too! Dry heats not too bad but hot humid or damp weather makes me ache more! My consultant said there's an old saying; ”I can feel it in my bones' and its true!

Marie

[CatherineL]

Hi Vicky,

My consultant told me that the synovial fluid in your joints act as a barometer because it is affected by changes in air pressure. So the old wives' tale of "feeling it in your bones" happens to be true!

Catherine x

[joan_w]

Yes, if find that humidity affects joints. If it is raining or very humid then they ache far more than on a dry day.

Jo

[VickyG]

Thank you all for the feedback! I was suspecting that joint ache and weather changes are positively related. I also think that CatherineL's consultant is right when he says that the synovial fluid acts as a barometer. It seems that air pressure and not the humidity or the cold is the main reason for the problem since I feel achy even when hot weather succeeds cold (only during the change).