Warmer weather.

Carryl

Hi. Thankyou for letting me join this brilliant group. I'm 63 and was really fitness mad till generalised osteoarthritis took hold 4yr ago..my question is..I get more joint stiffness and bad leg weakness in warm weather..can hardly get upstairs through heavy legs..and fatigue is a nightmare..in cold wet weather I have bad pain in most joints and then start wishing for warm weather only to get problems again with stiff joints...I also have hereditary essential tremor so my walking is great..but anyone else suffer both in cold and warm weather? Best wishes to all.

PeterJ

Hello @Carryl and welcome to the community. We are a friendly and supportive group and I hope that that will be your experience as well.

I understand that you have osteoarthritis and wondering if the weather can affect it. Our website contains a lot of useful information and I would recommend you have a look but a couple of articles on it that may be of interest are

https://www.versusarthritis.org/news/2020/may/managing-your-arthritis-in-warmer-weather/

https://www.versusarthritis.org/about-arthritis/your-experiences/hints-and-tips/living-with-arthritis-hints-and-tips/

Please do keep posting and let us know how you are getting on and I am sure that others will connect with you to share their experiences and support as well.

With very best wishes

Peter

Carryl

Thank you Peter. I've just read what you posted too me with interest..i will be asking for ideas help with kitchen gadgets soon..especially since getting my right distorted thumb stuck in a pair of "normal" kitchen scissors! I use a knork because my tremors don't allow knife and fork together...however..pressing a cutting action with knork is often painful..im going to try pizza wheel...so I'm going to be getting some enquiring looks next time I'm in restaurant and out comes my knork and pizza wheel !

Kind regards C.