By Kate T on Monday, June 05, 2000 - 06:15 pm:

Can anyone tell me if they think that the weather has anything to do with the level of pain?

I come from Australia and it gets up to 40 degrees on the hotest days and in winter down to -9 degrees at night. I am noticing in the last couple of years that I don't
have the pain in the winter as much as i have it in the summer. I went to England a couple of months again, coming in to you spring and found that i didn't have the
problems that i have durring the period before hand at home just coming out of Summer.

I would be really interested in any feed back,
Thanks
Kate T

By Pat E on Wednesday, August 02, 2000 - 01:52 am:

I live in the Philippines and I find that my pain is worse in cold and damp. My son, with a worse case the me, hurts more in hot and dry. Any sense in this? I was raised on the California desert and he was raised in the tropics. Maybe that has a lot to do with it?'
Pat E

By Gwen on Thursday, August 03, 2000 - 12:07 am:

I read an article in response to a similar query. The particular writer asked whether moving from a maritime climate with marked seasonal variations to somewhere inland and dryer would help her joint pains. The reply was, "Yes, initially" but that people who are sensitive to climatic changes eventually become as sensitive to minor variations as they were to major ones

By Sallie on Friday, October 20, 2000 - 04:44 am:

Yes, the pain increases in cold damp weather. i live in the Uk and unfortunatly it is like that most of the Winter. I was considering moving to a hotter less changeable country.

By Liz on Friday, October 20, 2000 - 10:15 am:

I live in Northern Ontario in Canada where the winter temperatures can go down to -50 below 0 but my joints are only affected by the weather on those rare damp days that we get. I find that when I travel anywhere that is near water, where the air is damper, my joints are very painful infact they ache and all my joints feel like they are in need of lubrication. So my experience is that damp weather can affect the joints but the cold dry inland weather doesn't. Many local seniors who have arthritis retired to British Columbia because of it's shorter milder winters but then returned home within a year complaining of joint pain from the damp air.

Liz