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Huger cold house. Mostly stay in bed stay in bed to try and keep warm. I feel I am slowly dieindieing probably am
I have cirrhosis, and I'm never warm, heating constantly on, however, always cold, my fatigue is more. My mood is never good.
my breathing is so much worse at the moment. I can only think it is due to the damp weather. My sats at 90 is normal
I have seasonal affective disorder. At work I had to use a special lamp on my desk that was basically a sun lamp. It gave me the vitamin d I needed. I still have S.A.D., but my response is different so it doesn't drag me down as hard. I look for the positives of each day. Sometimes it's just waking up, as others will not have done so. Other times it's the birds on my bird feeder, a good movie, a nice tea. It's my reaction to the seasonal change that has improved, which, inturn, improved my overall mental health.
Otherwise my Fibromyalgia and M.E. seem to be much, much, worse. Greater general pain and more joint specific pain. It doesn't help my S.A.D. as I battle this every day, but my new attitude does. It's a strange set of scales regarding mental health and severe physical issues. The balance is never in your favour, but you have to do what you can each day. Warm baths along with,warm socks, scarves, gloves, all worn indoors.
much more fatigued and mood much lower. Cold causes my joints and muscles a lot of pain. I feel cold most of the time, particularly my hands and feet. My Raynauds is obviously more active. I try to be active if I can but don’t always manage it.
Being a solo person I find this time of year quite difficult but have improved over the years with the help of positive thinking and a sun lamp.
Cold feet and legs worsens mobility…😩
I feel colder even with a warm home. At night my hands and feet feel very cold. If I catch a cold it seems to stay longer then before my heart problems.
Everything is fine except I can get very very cold. I didn't used to be like that before ET diagnosis. Woolly vest helps a lot!!
I have several conditions affected by cold. Trigeminal neuralgia, which is (very) temperature sensitive. Mine has deteriorated so I have more difficulties with it. If cold is combined with wind I can't open my mouth outdoors, this makes breathing very difficult and exertion problematic. I also have SAD and sleep disorders. The low light makes me very depressed. It can be very slow and insidious. My sleep disorders sometimes impact so badly that I end up with no daylight and it is like Sisyphus roiling his boulder uphill to try and dig myself out of that. Lastly, I have an autoimmune condition that causes my skin to react to cold. In practice this means that the entire skin on my back and sometimes buttocks and haunches itches when I come in from the cold. It is exceptionally intense and often makes me damage my skin trying to relieve it.
My conditions ebb and flow throughout the year. Different seasons bring on different issues
I love the Holidays. Always have. I do get insomnia in early December and have since I was a child. Do not know why. I am anything but depressed. I get the blues around February when we are up to our keisters in snow and no sunshine for weeks at a time. BY March, there can be a glimmer of hope, but also the time we get our worse snow and weather. I do ache with the cold and damp, but it part of living in this climate. Now that I am retired, and do not have to go anywhere when it snows or ice, it's great.
I caught the flu which lasted nearly a month. And a 20-year old ligament injury began hurting again in the cold weather.
I am more a summer person, preferring the warmth and longer light days to the cold and dark winter days. I definitely think the heat helps the pain.
Stroke effects - as usual. Permanent AF - as usual. Homonymous hemianopia - as usual. Lung damage from pulmonary toxicity - more mucus. Osteoarthritis - pretty good. Hearing - diminished, probably due to the mucus.