Seasonal sarcoidosis?
I can’t imagine this makes any sense, but it sure feels like it’s true: My sarcoidosis symptoms are flaring up like crazy this past week, after being mostly dormant for months. Oddly enough, the same pattern happened last year as well. Is it possible that the seasons are affecting things? If the temperature was below 90 degrees during the day, I’d blame a change in the weather, but it’s not like I can tell the seasons have changed except by looking at the calendar.
Odd, odd, odd. And hooray for Snap, Crackle and Pop living in all my joints. My knees make enough noise to wake up the cats when they’re sleeping.
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🙁 Sorry to read this.
If it isn’t the temperature, how about humidity – does that vary at all season to season?
Comment by Nicole — September 8, 2006 @ 14:42
Not much and not recently.
The good news is that everyone got me electric blankets (of every imaginable type, including one for the car when I’m a passenger) last Christmas, which work like all-over heating pads for my joints.
So I get to conk out early at night with a heating pad and a kitten on me. It could be a lot worse.
Comment by Beau — September 8, 2006 @ 15:15
Yeah sorry to read this Beau…I heard that Vanguard is a cure for all ills…sort of a Lady Fatima of MMoRPGs.
Comment by Dmitry the Wizzy — September 8, 2006 @ 18:41
that pretty much sucks.
I don’t know if this is helpful, but there’s been studies on the relationship between the weather and joints. So, temperature, air (barometric) pressure, precipitation, humidity, all of these things can effect the joints. Especially air pressure, since the joints are filled with fluid, and can act like mini-barometers.
It’s also a desert climate moving towards fall, so, there’s probably a bigger variation in daytime and nighttime temperatures, too. That could have something to do with it.
either way, again, that just sucks.
Comment by f. chong rutherfod — September 8, 2006 @ 19:16
I am in the sarcoidosis diagnosis process now and I was looking for
weather and sarcoidoisis relationship information. I am finding that
high-pressure systems tend to relieve my symptoms while extreme
low-pressure systems are making life difficult.
I am wondering if the pulmonary nodules in my lungs expand
during low pressure systems. It seems like such a stretch but it also seems
like sarcoidosis is filled with the bazarre.
Comment by Shane — September 30, 2006 @ 14:48
Actually, I was talking with someone who has advanced arthritis, and he was saying the exact same thing about pressure systems. He was convincing enough that I’m considering buying a barometer just so I can get an early morning heads-up on what to expect from my sarcoidosis.
I’m sorry to hear you’ve got it in your lungs — I had a coworker with greatly diminished lung capacity as a result of sarcoidosis nodules in both lungs, and I feel like I (amazingly) got a better deal with my joint issues.
Comment by Beau — October 1, 2006 @ 0:31