Pain And Changes In Weather...Am I Alone????

I believe childhood traumas such as losing a parent from divorce changing schools harsh punishment and emotionally distant parent esp. a mother can affect physical and mental health.
During stressful times RA seems to be more painful and flares mor often. It would be interesting to study adults with common histories.
I am very grateful to my doctor and his treatment plan he always listens to my questions and if necessary adjusts my treatment. The confidence I have in his treatment plan for me is the “other medicine” and it works! Trust is essential.
Be well, Jilly

Who is your doctor at Mayo you are referring to and what is their specialty if you don't mind me asking?

Hi Marley, I do not have a doctor at the Mayo, I live in Santa Barbara, Calif.
My doctors are with the Sansum Clinic.
In talking about my situation as a child I was sharing my belief that the “growing pains” I suffered from most likely begin during and because of how I grew up. Children living under stress do suffer many different problems both physically and mentally . We humans are adaptive and can have good lives and become healthy with the proper care. I believe I am a survivor who has had a very good adult life but have physical challenges that were probably started very young. I don’t know if this answers any questions you might have, I hope so.
Have a beautiful day.
Jilly

It seems to me you have a profound sensitivity to changes in nature. There are no doubt gifts you have from this as well, but I am sorry for all you have had to suffer.

There is no place it may seem to easily go to, to escape a sudden change in barometric pressure. It is commonly recognized that animals behave differently with changes in the weather. For example sea birds often rest on rocks along the shore or fly very low with low barometric pressure. It has been proven in a hypobaric climatic wind tunnel at the University of Western Ontario that birds behave differently when all conditions are maintained constant with the one exception being barometric pressure. It appears birds have their own way to register changes to barometric pressure in themselves and change their behaviour in different ways, such as immediately feeding in simulated storm condition.
This was reported in the journal “Animal Behaviour”.

Maybe you could follow barometric behaviour very closely like on an hourly or half hourly basic. Chart your sense of pain with barometric pressure. As soon as possible after you detect a significant change get comfortable in a bath where you are covered as much as possible. Keep the temperature warm. I assume at room temperature the air in the room follows outdoor barometric pressure, but in water the pressure would be more constant. See if your sense of pain stays lower and more stable under water and doesn’t fluctuate with the barometric pressure.

I imagine this could sometime be inconvenient or impossible, but it could be used with a cumulative build up of pain.

I found this information on birds and barometric pressure by chance, but maybe you were meant to hear it. I think water is our most powerful source of health and the most reliable. There is a range of receptivity with everything. You just happen to be at the highest levels of receptivity. This can be very good and very rewarding, but also has its risks and limitations. I hope you find a way to control any negative effects.

Hi @spruceriver, what a welcome post. At this point, Barometric pressure pretty much controls my life and my willingness to adapt to existing reality. I have recently figured out the up-and-down episodes of the BP. Relevant pain is more intensive when the pressure is increasing. Just the opposite when pressure is declining.

Thanks.
Chris Trout

I am suffering from barometric pressure changes right now.
Our spring weather has been changing almost hourly for the past few weeks and I am in the clutches of cluster migraines for a full 7 days now. The worst it's been in many years.

All I know is that my knees and back are better at predicting rain than our local weather forecaster. I had physical therapy for an ankle injury (torn tendon) and on days when I would complain about aches and pains my PT would tell me almost all of her patients were saying the same thing. So, yes I believe the “old timers” stories and I am one (age79).

I too suffer with BP changes and they are even more brutal in cold or even chilly weather. I do have Central Sensitization, I think better called Central Pain Syndrome. Ppl can a little better understand that term - I’m weary of blank faces and no comforting comment when I tell ppl, who ask, my diagnosis. If I didn’t use Indica THC and a little CBD, at bedtime, and a little Sativa 1:1 THC:CBD before 2 pm, I wouldn’t be here today bc the pain is terrible. (Very small portion of gummies). I am also on Lyrica but I’m suspicious it is triggering headaches. Is anyone else suspicious of this?

I suffer from this. I have fibromyalgia. There's a cold front coming in now so I'm hurting bad all over. Spring and fall are my bad times

I have more pain in rainy weather. So far I haven’t found anything to make my foot pain and tingling less severe even when the weather is nice