My pain levels are definitely affected by the weather. so is my fatigue.

In the summer months I can function quite well pain-wise, not pain-free but at a minimal level - enough to live a reasonably decent life (no work but self care and the occasional outing).

Come the winter months my pain levels ramp up a whole lot as does my fatigue, those months are spent mostly at home trying to find ways to entertain myself. The pain meds come out once more until the spring appears once again.

I hear in here a lot that many sufferers can't cope with the summer heat but I guess many of you are in the US. I am in the north of Scotland so our summer temperatures are probably very similar to what most experience in autumn or spring, although this year I suspect Scotlands summer was more like your winter temperatures.

I have as yet found no solution to this problem other than to hunker down at home and make myself as comfortable as possible, ask for help from those around me and remind myself that it is not forever, that Spring will come around again !

My pain levels are associated with changes in the barometric pressure. Definitely, feel more achy in cold and wet weather. Extreme heat also makes me miserable.

Yes, the barometric pressure definitely affects my general state. Low pressure and, uh-oh, I don't feel well After a frontal boundary moves through things shift for me for the better . High pressure with low humidity is the best!! Here in Florida, the summers get to me with the high humidity, and the time around hurricane season is the worst (August, Sept.). If one of those hurricanes or tropical storms comes our way, I don't feel better until it's passed. Florida winters can be damp, too, and that always hurts my bones and joints. So, I know that the weather affects me quite a bit and that might be what's happening to you, too. Hope things are better by now.

Yup, sudden change to very cold or damp weather affects me also. This happens sometimes in the middle of summer when it's nice and warm and I go to the grocery store where they have the air conditioning on high. The sudden change gives me problems. Damp, wet weather is the worse. I try to avoid leaving the house at all when it's raining.

It has been raining where I live all day, which is an abrupt change from the cold weather. Now that its nighttime, i'm getting joint pain and swelling in my left wrist, and getting over a horrible migraine that caused pain in my sinuses and neck area. Gotta go back to the ice pack, this left hand is still painful. Talk later.

Yes, any extreme in temperature is a flare up. Also if the barometric pressure is on the rise. I am most greatful I don't have cold winters. In the heat of the summer I know to avoid being out in the afternoon. I have long thought that we could all make good weather people for the news according to how we feel.