Rainy weather and LE.

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paintThesky
paintThesky Member Posts: 56
edited September 2015 in Lymphedema
I am new to this board, and have questions about how the weather affects LE. I was starting to feel better at the end of this past week. I felt like I could do anything I set my mind to on Thursday. On Friday a rainy weather pattern set in the southeast. They are calling it a stalled weather pattern. We've had rain for 3 days, and it looks like we will have a few more days of rain ahead. Yesterday my arm, breast, and underarm felt full, and my skin felt hard in my arm, and breast. It felt like I had burning sensations in my breast and upper arm. Is anyone else's symptoms worse when the weather is rainy. I know the heat affects it, but how does the rain affect yours?
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  • carol57
    carol57 Member Posts: 3,567
    edited September 2015
    Barometric changes make me achey. My arm feels tender and burns a little, and my truncal LE areas swell and feel super tender.
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  • Spookiesmom
    Spookiesmom Member Posts: 9,568
    edited September 2015

    Doesn't seem to affect the LE arm, but SURE aggravates my fibro. I want to crawl in a hole today. It hurts to blink.

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  • amcarter
    amcarter Member Posts: 21
    edited September 2015

    I have very mild LE but I live in the Southeast too and my LE hand is tingly and slightly swollen after the last few days of rainy weather. I have never been officially diagnosed with arthritis in my hands but I think I must have it because my finger joints get achy too.

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  • SusanSnowFlake
    SusanSnowFlake Member Posts: 165
    edited September 2015

    The last time we had rain I noticed it. My arm and breast were super achy. I didn't have an increase in swelling but I had a hard spot on my breast that I worked on for months with chip packs to get under control and it was back. I wondered if it was the weather.

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  • Kicks
    Kicks Member Posts: 4,131
    edited September 2015

    Meteorologically, rain/snow means low pressure and sunny means high pressure. For those of us who are very pressure sensitive it can make a difference with us, individually.

    I am VERY pressure sensative, l can only use/wear low compression garments which work great for me. Higher levels of compression makes my LE drastically worse within an hour of trying to wear them. It's the opposite for some others though.

    I have much less issues with my LE during summer/heat than with cold/winter. I think this is because I am so much more active outdoors doing all sorts of 'stuff' (bicycling, riding/caring for the horses, flyfishing, mowing several yards with my push mower, all sorts of 'stuff') during summer but during winter no where near as much I can do during our brutal winters - basically just going to the gym to work out.

    We are each unique and have to learn what works for us individually, not what works for someone else (or is supposed to be what works for all).

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