Guest guest Posted November 23, 2004 Report Share Posted November 23, 2004 I have to disagree with this article!! i can predict a storm about 24 hours before it hits! And in the winter...... YIKES!! Is it easier for those of you in the southern, warmer states????? Does the weather change as drastically there in FLA?? Just wondering. NEW YORK, Feb 12 (Reuters Health) - Although somepeople with fibromyalgia pain feel that the weatheraffects their symptoms, new study results suggest thatchanges in the weather do not predict changes in pain. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 23, 2004 Report Share Posted November 23, 2004 Oh me too!! I didn't mean to imply that you agreed!! Sorry if it sounded that way. My mom has arthritis in her knees also and we both joke about the weather changing. I thought you had to be at least 60 or so to predict weather changes. lol guess my "real age" is probably closer to 60 than 30ish. Hugs I didn't say that I necessarily agreed with the article either. Someone asked about relevance and I looked it up and that was what I found and I sent it along. That's all. I have to say that I have also had pain in the past worsen with the weather and although I have only been dx'd for a little over a year I am positive I have had fibro for longer than 10 years. Site-Mod Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 23, 2004 Report Share Posted November 23, 2004 I am really 32 going on 33 in January. I almost couldn't keep a straight face even typing 30ish cuz I feel so old. LOL! Yup, that's what my folks and I do as well. My mom gets dizzy and I get knee pain (arthitis wise) and we look at each other and say STORM COMING!!! LOL Add me to the "older" than she should be category too.... I'm 31 (about to be 32) going on 70 something... LOL Site-Mod Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 23, 2004 Report Share Posted November 23, 2004 Hi Everyone, I just wanted to add my .018 cents (that's about the Canadian equivalent... hehehehe) about weather and pain. As I have osteoarthritis, I've always been good at predicting weather changes. Years ago I did my own personal study on this and tracked weather, barometric pressure, altitude, and my pain. What I learned from this was that it wasn't bad weather that brought on pain, but barometric pressure. As pressure drops very quickly prior to a thunderstorm or severe weather, that was when I either went into a severe arthritic flare or just experienced pain. Toronto is only 130 ft. (approx) above sea level, I continued to track this when I traveled to Utah which is quite a bit higher in elevation. From what I've learned, higher elevations have a naturally lower barometric pressure. As Salt Lake City is up in the Rockies and Wasatch Mountains, the higher elevations meant a lower barometric pressure on a clear & sunny day than the higher barometric pressure in Toronto on a clear and sunny day than what I was used to. I hope that made some sense... my descriptions are a little foggy. On one particular road trip from Salt Lake to Park City, there was a drastic climb in altitude in a very short time frame. I immediately noticed pain starting in both my knees which continued throughout our day trip to Park City. As soon as we drove back down the mountain into Salt Lake City, I noticed once my ears popped from the pressure, the pain in my knees also started to diminish. My body never acclimated to the lower pressures in Salt Lake until I had been there for at least 3 days. Then not only did my body acclimate to the pressure, but it also acclimated to the incredibly dry air. All my research, tracking, and studying all pointed to the same thing. Any sudden weather changes meant sudden changes in the atmospheric pressure. Weather the barometer went up real fast, or down real fast... I could feel it in my arthritic joints immediately. Mind you.. I did all of this work before I was diagnosed with Fibro, so I can't make an honest correlation between weather and Fibro without starting up another study on myself. I also noticed that every time I took a plane trip somewhere... whenever the cabin became pressurized, my arthritic joints would again act up as the pressure in the cabin was never the same as it was in the city that I had just departed from. I have also recently discovered that whenever I get an osteoarthritic flare up, it will trigger a Fibro flare as well.... but my Fibro flares never seem to trigger an arthritic flare. My personal opinion and observations are that whenever my body or mind is under any kind of stress... be it from illness, climate changes, stress, anger, fear, etc.... my Fibro will translate this as a trigger to start acting up. I have no scientific data on anything that I have just told you all, just my own observations and personal experiences. Whether they are correct or not can only be determined by some kind of double blind study done with a wide variety of people in a wide variety of locations, climates, altitudes, etc. Maybe someone someday will do a study on this if it hasn't been done already. I just don't think they've taken barometric pressure into consideration in the studies I've seen so far. gentle and warm hugs, Norah --Norah Bleazard - Burlington, Ontario Canadawww.bleazard.net ~ www.janorlites.comE-MAIL=norah.fibroyahoo@...CHAT=MSN = black_dak_98@...Yahoo = drazaelbnAIM = black98dakICQ = 105346330Site Moderator for: fibromyalgia_support_group Site Owner for:Fibromites_Fighting_Weight:http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Fibromites_Fighting_Weighthttp://fibromites.ath.cx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 23, 2004 Report Share Posted November 23, 2004 I was going to say I disagree with it as well because I always know when a front is coming through and/or a storm is coming. I'm in FL. The weather changes quite drastically in the summer. Not so much in the wintertime though... just from June-October with the rainy season, which kills my fibro AND my arthritis... Stupid weather. Blah. Hugs, Dawn site mod > I have to disagree with this article!! i can predict a storm about 24 hours > before it hits! in pain. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 23, 2004 Report Share Posted November 23, 2004 You guy's are cracking me up.. I start laughing dh. has to ask whats so funny I show him your emails. and he says well don't laugh that sounds like you and Dad..LOL.. Hug's Marie Marie A. Roomsburg pretty_n_cute2002@... marieava@... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 23, 2004 Report Share Posted November 23, 2004 Me Too. But it was also from 2002, so maybe they didn't know enough about FMS then. I have found weather change pain listed in most articles that I have read about FMS. I also have arthritis, but I can tell the difference between the arthritis pain and the FMS pain. I predict rain and snow. Someone should pay me for that I'm telling ya. Alenna -------------------------------------------------- Site Moderator for: fibromyalgia_support_group "When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us." Helen Keller (1880 - 1968) RE: Weather/ ALL I have to disagree with this article!! i can predict a storm about 24 hours before it hits! And in the winter...... YIKES!! Is it easier for those of you in the southern, warmer states????? Does the weather change as drastically there in FLA?? Just wondering. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 23, 2004 Report Share Posted November 23, 2004 I totally agree, with you alenna....my hips warn me about weather...lol > Me Too. But it was also from 2002, so maybe they didn't know enough about FMS then. I have found weather change pain listed in most articles that I have read about FMS. > > I also have arthritis, but I can tell the difference between the arthritis pain and the FMS pain. I predict rain and snow. Someone should pay me for that I'm telling ya. > > Alenna > -------------------------------------------------- > > Site Moderator for: fibromyalgia_support_group > > " When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us. " > > Helen Keller (1880 - 1968) > > > RE: Weather/ ALL > > > I have to disagree with this article!! i can predict a storm about 24 hours before it hits! And in the winter...... YIKES!! Is it easier for those of you in the southern, warmer states????? Does the weather change as drastically there in FLA?? Just wondering. > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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