Would lupus be a reason I get "wiped out" so easily when it's humid?

Thread view:

Enable EMail Alerts

Start New Thread

Thread rating:

Nell - 25 Sep 2004 20:43 GMT

I was in my rheumy's waiting room and I got a warm feeling in my
midsection and started really perspiring and feeling clammy. I had
ridden to office in an un-air conditioned vehicle and the waiting room
wasn't air conditioned either (though the rest of the office was) and
they had the door to the common hallway open. Also the waiting room
was very crowded (it's small and narrow).

The next day I was at a ladie's Bible study at our church and the
leader couldn't get the a/c to working in the room so we opened the
windows. Towards the end of the lesson, the same thing happened
(without the warm feeling in the abdomen, though).

Both times it passed off quickly as soon as I was under air
conditioning.

Nell

About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.~~Josh Billings

Reply to this Message

Boo - 25 Sep 2004 21:16 GMT

I have a similar problem... I just can't take warm weather; also I don't
respond well to heating pads. I have Hashimoto's (autoimmune thyroiditis)
along with lupus, which can make the sufferer intolerant of heat or cold. I
do much better in cold weather. I become exhausted easily anyway, and I do
find that yes, for me, it is part of the lupus. And getting out of the heat
is not only helpful, but necessary.

HTH,

Boo

>I was in my rheumy's waiting room and I got a warm feeling in my
> midsection and started really perspiring and feeling clammy. I had
[quoted text clipped - 15 lines]
> About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is
> to steal with good judgment.~~Josh Billings

Reply to this Message

Nell - 26 Sep 2004 20:06 GMT

>I have a similar problem... I just can't take warm weather; also I don't
>respond well to heating pads. I have Hashimoto's (autoimmune thyroiditis)
[quoted text clipped - 26 lines]
>> About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is
>> to steal with good judgment.~~Josh Billings

I have a low thyroid (have had most of my life). I take my medicine
faithfully.

I'll be glad when the humidity is gone.

Jeanne is supposed to skirt offshore Delaware, New Jersey (where I am)
and New York.

It's not usually this humid this late. It's not usually this humid,
period. Gads, I feel like I'm back in Missouri!
Nell

Anyone who says "Easy as taking candy from a baby"
has never tried it.

Reply to this Message

J - 29 Sep 2004 00:01 GMT

> I have a similar problem... I just can't take warm weather; also I don't
> respond well to heating pads. I have Hashimoto's (autoimmune thyroiditis)
> along with lupus, which can make the sufferer intolerant of heat or cold. I
> do much better in cold weather. I become exhausted easily anyway, and I do
> find that yes, for me, it is part of the lupus. And getting out of the heat
> is not only helpful, but necessary.

Hello Boo, I have Hashi's too and Raynaud's . I usually prefer heat, but last
week (or so), I crashed from the heat for a day or so. The cold is very damp
here and it hurts my bones (osteoarthritis), and flares the fibromyalgia too.
I only like cold and snow around Christmas time, then I prefer that it skips
right to Spring :-)
J

Reply to this Message