Fibromyalgia in winter
Common Questions and Answers about Fibromyalgia in winter
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I can only tell you about my own experience. I am a resident of Canada's Yukon Territory. As much as I love the place, the cold is hard on me. I got to spend a short time in Florida the last 2 winters and I found it very agreeable. My husband and I plan to spend 3 months in Florida this winter. I don't know if summer in Florida would be good for me, since really hot weather and high humidity bother me as well.
I went thru 48 months of treatment developed fibromyalgia and worsened joint and bone pain. I have lost a lot of dexterity in my hands and fingers don't have a lot of feeling at the tips, but that's from the treatment. Pre-treatment I had a lot of winter arthritis-like pain in my joints and hands. Don't know if this helps, but I'm new to this forum. Wish I'd seen it when I was on treatment.
Was wondering if anyone has experienced significant relief of fibromyalgia/rheynauds by moving south? I am 29, was diagnosed with reynauds and connective tissue disease several years ago and fibro last year. It seems like every year the winters get worse for me with so much pain and depression. I really don't know if I can take another New Hampshire winter. I am getting married this summer and my fiancé is supportive, although it would take some convincing, but both our jobs are flexible.
The only symptom that worsens for me in winter is the numbness / disordered sensation in my limbs, especially my left hand. The sensations intensify and turn my hand into a useless, clumsy stump. It takes a few hours to thaw out and feel like my usual normal (still abnormal but not as bad). It was worst when cleaning ice and snow off my car in minus 40 Celsius weather in northern Alberta. Now that I'm in Calgary, and have a garage :) , I expect not to suffer quite so much.
Within 10 days it was my whole body and sharp, toe curling, nauseating pains shoot in my shoulders, hips, and up the left side of my neck and head. This progressed every day for 14 days. On day 15 my head stopped hurting. Today is day 16 and I was actually able to make it 1/2 the day before I took Lortab. MRI with and w/o contrast of head and neck, CT scan of head and EMG/NCT were normal and my reflexes are good. At a loss...
Please take at least 5,000 iu of vitamin D3. I,000 iu is really not enough. The Vitamin D Council and Dr. Mercola (mercola.com) recommend this much as the minimum maintenance dose. Dr. Mercola explains why the FDA did not increase the RDA sufficiently a little more thoroughly than the Vitamin D Council did. Actually, he recently recommended 8,000 iu of vitamin D3, so if you take at least the 5,000 iu, you can't overdose on that much. Not even as a senior.
I have had fibromyalgia for years and know that pain well. I take Cymbalta and Flexeril for that. After a slip on the ice this past winter I have developed sciatic nerve pain from my buttocks down to my ankle. It sometimes feel like a sharp stabbing pain that is not pleasant and is beginning to affect my job, which is physically demanding. Any suggestions on what medications can help decrease this pain.
Many individuals with other liver diseases do not suffer the pain seen in hepatitis C. And there is a high prevalence of fibromyalgia in hepatitis C patients; this is important for clinicians to appreciate, as the recognition of fibromyalgia in patient with hepatitis C will prevent assumptions of pain being due to liver disease—and perhaps allow for a more focused and correct treatment approach.
Hi everyone - I am 35 and pregnant with my first child. I have fibromyalgia and asthma. I have worked with children for 10 years and I seem to have no resistance to the bugs the children have. I get everything they have and seem to have no let up from different bugs during the winter time especially. I have just got over a bad virus I caught from the kids (in June) and had a chest infection and had to take an antibiotic.
I keep hearing that fibromyalgia is worse in winter, but I feel great in winter. I thought it might be heat and humidity (mind you, it doesn't get that hot here), but for example, yesterday was in the 60s and the air was bone-dry, yet my hands were all swollen. At its worst, the bottom of my feet feel like they are severely bruised and it is hard to walk and do anything with my hands. During the night, it feels like my legs and feet are filling with a painful fluid.
s quite painful. I also experience this in my legs which effects my feet ankles and knees. I always starts in the joints but as it spreads almost feels like my muscles and bones are aching aswel. It doesn't happen daily though and there's never any nods or red spots. It's starters affecting my upper arms and shoulders. These pains usually only affect one area at a time not my whole body, and can last from a few hours to a couple of days.
Keep weather in mind. In the summer, you would only need a light sheet or blanket, in the winter, heavier blankets are necessary to keep you comfy. Again, back to the senses...if you create a bed that keeps you too hot or too cold, that will interfere with your sleep. Keep a glass or bottle of water at your bedside, in case you awaken with that dry mouth and need for a drink. This way you don't have to get out of bed to get something to drink.
I too have peeling palms that leads to cracking and some times bleeding only when autumn comes around. I spent a year in the tropics and for the first time in 20 years, I went an entire winter without the problem. The pattern of peeling is incredibly symmetric and stops precisely where the skin begins to have hair follicles. I am 29 years old and for as long as I can remember, around October in the north east of the U.S.
During the winter most people spend more time in the home than they do outside so it could be an allergy to something inside your home it could be a mold allergy.
Also flea bites blister if have a mark like a mosquito bite with a small blister in the center it’s a flea bite.
So it could be is bed bugs but they would bite the entire family or it could be is a heat rash they blister as well or it could be hives or a heat rash. Only your Dr. can tell you for sure.
I'm not sure what time is bad for me, since I was diagnosed in may. I know now that summer is not good for me (I'm not allergic to any grass or stuff, I'm allergic to the smell of them). I've been out of breath for about 2 weeks (heat wave). I'm not good at all with humidity, exercise, perfums, molds, and illness (that's all I know for now), so I'm pretty scared about winter (I'm always sick in the winter). I guess I'll just have to see.
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