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Posted 7/1/2009 1:33 PM (GMT 0)
Hi everyone- just wondering if anyone experiences this, too. When it is hot out my symptoms are much worse. Joint pain, neck pain, heel pain all of the usual stuff. I feel better when it is cold out.

I remember last summer being at a Coldplay concert and it was SO hot inside. I hurt SO bad...had to sit 4 most of the show. As soon as I got outside I felt much better.

Even in the winter when I stand in front of my woodstove my neck will start to hurt.

Is this normal and why does it happen? Most people I know their joints hurt in the cold weather. For me it is the opposite.
Posted 7/1/2009 1:58 PM (GMT 0)
Lovelabs,
I also have heat intolerance.
I've just found this: http://www.rifelabs.com/heat-and-lyme.html
Posted 7/1/2009 3:35 PM (GMT 0)
Thanks I read that article. Very interesting. Might be a long summer. Ugh
Posted 7/1/2009 4:15 PM (GMT 0)
Hope,

Wow! That explains why I feel so weak when I take a hot bath. My legs pratically shake when I get out and I feel like I'm going to pass out. I've always wondered why I felt like that and no one else in my family did. My husband and I thought it was my blood sugar. Thanks for posting this!

Jen needs to see read this article too. It talks about weakness in legs.
Posted 7/1/2009 4:58 PM (GMT 0)
Here I am! Haha, I'm about to read it :)

I was JUST going to post something about this...!
Posted 7/1/2009 6:17 PM (GMT 0)
See! I told ya I think about you;)
Posted 7/8/2009 2:36 AM (GMT 0)
This is an interesting topic... i actually found this forum to look for other people's experiences since I'd recently noticed my symptoms getting worse... and last year, the peak of my joint pain was during the heat of summer. I seemed to recover over the winter, though....
Posted 7/8/2009 3:26 AM (GMT 0)
i was thinking the doxy was making me hot... but my symptoms get worse and worse each day.. i have this now also..

i used to love the heat and humidity, but now i go outside, i start to get sweaty and have hot flashes some...
Posted 7/8/2009 4:49 AM (GMT 0)
Years before I considered myself to be "sick" I found it unusual that I always felt lightheaded and downright horrible after taking a shower when most people felt revitalized.

I don't mind hot weather but find I can't tolerate humidity. When I belonged to a CFS/Fibro group many people said they did much better in the Southwest which is interesting.
Posted 7/8/2009 4:58 AM (GMT 0)
scorpio its funny i have always hated the cold. it makes me hurt so much more. but in the last yr or so i knowest when i take a hot i mean hot shower i am so weak afterwards i cant even brush my hair out. it takes me at least an hr to move afterwards.

but then again in the winters i cant handle the cold. it hurts me all the way down into my bones.
i try to keep it at 72º in the house at all times. this seems to work best for me to keep me happy.

granet we dont have the humidity here so this could be a factor too. shoot half the time its -5 to -10 humidity. and we have only had 5 inches of yr since Oct of last yr. lol dont ya just love Tx. LOL
Posted 7/8/2009 5:41 AM (GMT 0)
yeah i just vacationed in texas and i was waking up every morning worse and worse from the heat.
Posted 7/8/2009 5:51 AM (GMT 0)
wasnt you in the southern part of Tx. close to the shore? the humidity it a lot higher there then where i live. and know hot is not no matter where it is but when its 90 here you dont sweat as much as it drys on you as fast as you sweat, and then you have white crusty skin from all the salt in your body..lol
Posted 7/8/2009 5:56 AM (GMT 0)
RD, I can't stand the cold weather either! I like it very warm or even hot, but without the humidity. When I was in AZ a few years ago it was in the 80's and I was comfortable in jeans and a sweater while everyone else was in shorts and tank tops. Like I said, I'm living in the wrong place. lol
Posted 7/8/2009 6:11 AM (GMT 0)
well heck ya, your winters get to cold for most folks...lol this pass winter it would get cold for a day or two then right back up in the 60s. we had a 24 hr blizzared. then next day it was in the upper 40s and all the snow was gone! i mean thats perfict if you ask me. we had 1 day to play in the snow with the dogs and poof it was gone.

matter of fact i didnt have to waer my winter coat at all this yr. just a sweat jacket type. think they call em hoodies up your way :)
Posted 7/2/2018 6:27 AM (GMT 0)
I've not been diagnosed with Lyme, but I have heat intolerance that has been building for the past 20 years. Lately, I've been having terrible ligament issues that come and go: not just one area but it moves from joint to joint: lower back, upper back, one knee the other knee, hip, shoulder, now added today my jaw...then it clears up completely. Along with terrible stomach bloating in warm weather. Strange stuff!

The warm humid weather seems to make it worse.

It's to the point that I don't want to be in the sun when it's over 65 degrees—one of the worst things is stepping into a car that has been baking in the sun for hours; Or, being in bumper to bumper traffic when it's 100 degrees out, and I'm sitting in an air conditioned bubble. I hate that! When I was young, I lived in Hollywood and drove a car with no air conditioning. I want to be normal again!

If Lyme is made worse in hot weather, then maybe that's what I have.
And then, I would give a big YES to your question.
:O

Post Edited (cloudsandrain) : 7/2/2018 12:40:45 AM (GMT-6)

Posted 7/2/2018 7:23 AM (GMT 0)
Hey, Cloudsandrain - welcome!

Are you considering getting tested for lyme?

Do you have a history of tick bites...or finding ticks on you?

(although many of us with lyme did not have a known tick bite)

If this is the case, you can get an Igenex lab kit and get the Lyme WB IgM and IgG test done for $250.
Just call Igenex and have them send you the kit.
Posted 7/2/2018 8:53 PM (GMT 0)
hope_29
that website didn't work when I copied and pasted it.
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