Cold weather how does it effect you ?

Everyday living
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Since the weather has gone cold my legs have become very painfull and stiff making it difficult for getting about. wonder if anybody else suffers like this ? My heating has been more or less constantly on for the past couple of weeks i’m dreading what my bill will be like but i will have to cross that bridge when i come to it because i need the heat

jenny

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same here, i think cold weather thickens blood which means ccsvi makes sense

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I too suffer my legs are like lumps of dead wood that feel like they have been injected with iron. I also suffer Raynauds which in turn makes them worse. It also affects my hands severley and it’s so painful xx

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Makes me feel cr*p. Don’t think it has anything to do with my blood, as I don’t believe in all that.

It just makes everything that aches, ache more.

I’ve just switched the fan heater up to full blast, but I’m still sitting here wrapped in a fleece blanket - over my normal clothes, which include jeans, a thermal vest, jumper, and chunky cardigan.

Tina

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Oh well so its not just me think we need to hibernate and not come out till the warm weather haha.

jenny

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Every year I always forget just how much I hate the cold weather, I wish I could emigrate somewhere that has a nice temperate climate, where I could sit outside most of the year with a glass of something nice in my hand watching the world go by.

If anyone can arrange that for me, I’d be very grateful indeed, just let me know with a PM, don’t all jump at once please.

Thanks

Bill.

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Bill - couldn’t agree with you more - I usually feel terrible at this time of the year - pains and aches - stiffness - depression - really, really hate the cold dark days of winter - when is the next plane to Florida…?

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Greetings,but not festive just yet.I used to be an Eskimo,but now the constant pain in my feet is worsened by the cold.My circulation below the knees is knackered and tied in with the Neuropathetic pain…Happy days.I have various ways of trying to help this when I’m out on my buggy,which is every day,but more than three hours is very miserable so I try not to do it.

When I’m in my flat I have the heating on more than ever before and am thinking of growing bananas.What does help is playing the warm air from a hair dryer over the tootsies.It really helps,and I’ve got the electric blanket for a single bed folded around the end of the double mattress.It helps and I tend to leave it on the lowest setting all night…

For the first time in seven years I can bear to wear socks,albeit briefly.This is due to a better handle on the pain meds and patches,BUT the revelation has been Diabetic Socks.These are not sugar-free for foot fetishists,but have no seams or elasticcy bits and are very soft.Have a look on the South American river.

Wb

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Hi,

I think I am the exception! I love this cold weather being out on my scooter, the cold cuts through the fog in my head and I get a bit of clarity!

Heating on for half an hour at night and that’s it. On the negative, as many of you , below knee height my legs are v cold but hard to get the circulation going when in a wheelchair.

You will be pleased to hear I really struggle in the summer, lol!!

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Hi Jenny,

Yes, I hate the cold - but I hate the heat too. Spring and Autumn best seasons for me!

I’m the same as Tina - sitting in multiple layers of clothing and socks with wrist warmers on so I can still type.

I also have Raynauds - so chilblains on fingers and toes which are painful if they ever warm up as they itch. Am on nifedipine for

this but only seem to work for a few hours. There was a discussion in June about ‘Corned beef skin’ the mottling

that maybe due to MS or meds but think a few of us have that too. Very attractive!!!

Keep warm,

Jen xx

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Hi All

Me too! Have have Raynauds but my one neuro told me it was connected to the MS. Anothe neuro (both consultants at the same hospital) told me it was nothing to do with it! Has the Raynauds for about 20 years or more. Have lots more aches and pains in the legs. Is it because the blood is thicker?

Helen

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I’m like Jen - I prefer Spring and Autumn best. I cannot stand to be cold, similarly hot! Roll on April! Teresa xx

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I am much stiffer and achy in the cold, or when it’s very damp, but I feel absolutely sh*t when it’s hot.

Totally fogged up and crawling due to fatigue is way worse than the pain and stiffness I get. I still get the stiffness and pain when it’s hot, but not as bad as when it’s cold.

MS - you can’t win, can you?

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V, - you are an alien!

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I hate the cold too. It makes my joints ache and my prickly pins and needles seem worse somehow, as does my mood. I much prefer autumn and spring with their temperate freshness.

rae x