The hot weather

cutieclaire

Hi, I was wondering, since this really hot weather has arrived my joints have been so swollen and in real pain. Does anyone else feel this way and if you have any tips as to how to help this, could you let me know??

Hope all is well with everyone else.

Claire xxxxx

fester

Hi Claire, your not alone. Gill and i are both aching like crazy in this heat,me personally as daft as it sounds i prefer colder weather.
Solution? don't know,i tend to hobble around in bare feet,shorts no top and boy do i look a sight :shock:
Hope you settle down soon
Steve

skezier

Hi Clair,

Some of my bones are not too impressed with the sun and heat but I have to say I as a person love it I feel better and able to cope with the pain and bones with the sun on my face I think........ the heat..... well I suffers so bad in the cold it makes me tolerant of the heat I guess? Hope you can get your joint comfortable and take care. Cris x

frogmorton

Phew!!!

I love it myself, but not sure it loves me :shock:

Ice ice and more ice

Love

Toni xx

speedalong

cutieclaire wrote:

Hi, I was wondering, since this really hot weather has arrived my joints have been so swollen and in real pain. Does anyone else feel this way and if you have any tips as to how to help this, could you let me know??

Hope all is well with everyone else.

Claire xxxxx

I do prefer the warmth for my OA, but as I'm post op - I have noticed more swelling this weather.

What about cool baths and showers as cool as you can bear? I think it was Sharmaine (?) who mentioned a cooling gel that you can rub into the joints and I suppose good old ice packs/bags of frozen peas.

Sorry you are suffering so.

Speedy

hileena111

I remember a thread about this not long ago....Someone was surprised that the heat affected them and then everyone came in on it agreeing with her.
It makes me feel more up beat but I could do with it a bit cooler and a lot less humid than it is....a good thunderstorm wouldnt go amiss as far as I'm concerned.This time my bones aren't affected any more than normal....last time they were and I put it down to the heat.
I've had a thum ping headache for the past 4 days and thats the humidity doing that
Love
Hileena

jaspercat

Hi Claire, my joints are very painful in the hot weather, they seem to prefer the cold weather, I have a little fan to cool me off but nothing helps my joints except pain killers, roll on the summer weather love Jaspercatxx

marion1952

Hi Claire

Sorry your joints are worse in this hot weather... it does seem to vary - I would suggest a few (at least) nice cool showers every day; make some fruit ice cubes up so that you always have something cool in the fridge; don't stay in the sun for longer than, say. 10 mins; and a big-ish fan is brilliant - either have it focused on your face or on your legs and feet

I used to take an ice-cool spray with me when I went on holidays in the sun - could spray them on your arms and legs/knees/feet..

Best wishes

Marion

lavenderlady

I think I'm sun phobic it makes me feel sluggish irritable and way to hot to cope so tend to stay indoors my daughter is the same and her asthma plays up my eldest son hates it along with my dad , so I use a spray from Boots to cool you down you spray it on your skin to cool down, pretty good stuff, my joints seem to hurt mostly in colder weather or indeed wet weather, but I feel so yuk when hot to be honest I just feel ill , apparnelty its now called summer sad, yep its the same but opposite to winter sad, thank goodness was begining to feel a freak hating the heat, I live by the sea yet the thought of being on a sun hot beach is a no no for me , :?

mandy1967

Hi Claire we meet again.

My wrist and ankle are very swollen due to the heat, more than usual so I have been sitting with my feet up and trying to take it easy.
Mandy