no. but it certainly effects my mood. Big HUg

I feel like every joint in my body aches when it rains.

Yes, I have a barometer installed on my spine...... I can tell you within 24 to 48 hours if a storm is coming because the pain on my back becomes unbearable! Is just one of those things that I have to go through, it comes with the territory.

LOL @ tipper
Did you have to pay extra for that or was it a gift from the surgeon for the FBS?
HEHEHEHEHEH

Rain definately effects my mood..I actually find it very calming and I love the gray skies etc. My pain is worse when it is rainings/cold in the joints of my knees, hands, ankles and hips....my arthritis in my back is not affected.

Sorry your pain is higher...have you ever thought of maybe a sunlamp? I used to go sit in the tanning bed room with the bed on (I DO NOT get in the bed/tan)...but just to sit in there and feel the warmth and the light really, really helped me. Maybe you could give that a shot?

LOL Duck! YES, is called my lumbar and cervical instrumentation..... those suckers can tell weather better than any of the Metereologist on TV! :p

OMG, when it rains, snows, or the pressure changes I would like to step out of my body and just leave it in the closet. The pain is amazing. I never thought that this type of thing would make my pain levels skyrocket, but it sure does. I sympathize with you, hope you feel better soon. I watched our weather here and we are expecting rain today and snow flurries tomorrow, so I do know how you feel. I think I can sum it up in one work: CRAPPY, Kim.

@ Superduck: I've actually got a membership to a tanning salon, I go about every two to three days and lay in the bed for about 10 minutes. The oddest thing is, when I do this I leave there and feel almost normal for about an hour. It is well worth the money. Not only do I not look like a ghost all winter, but I feel so much better. I use a high tech bed that limits the UVA and UVB rays, but the heat is wonderful, especially when you hurt all over.

@ Kim

LOL...I am a pearlescent, opaque, milky white ghost...but I loved the heat too and it really, really did help. The light also helps with moods especially depression or sun deprivation disorder.

i thought i was the only crazy person out there that can detect the rain or snow within 24 to 48 before i would make so much money for any weather channel, they would always be the most accurate. when i told my rheumatologist thats how i felt he told me that its due to the barometer change , and he hears it from all his patients that go to warm locations and return to the cold that they feel that much better when they are there.

Hahaha, you all make me laugh! The weather definitely affects me too. I've had this idea for a while, imagine it as a internet show of sorts... We all get together around a big round conference table and chat about what the weather is going to be... "According to my knees, it's going to be mildly humid with no chance of rain." "Oh yeah, according to my back there's going to be high humidity with a dip in temperature." At the end of the show, we all come to a consensus and deliver the weather report. :-D

Much love and understanding,

Lisa

P.S. A neurologist once told me that a tanning bed could help my pain. Aside from my millions of freckles, I'm so pale I'm pretty much transluscent. But I was desprate for any relief so I slathered on my sunscreen and tried it for a few weeks. It actually really did help my pain. Almost like a wonderful, full-body, penetrating heating pad! Not to mention, I tried it in the winter when I still lived in Chicago and it helped my self-diagnosed case of SAD too! I would walk out feeling refreshed and happy. I didn't do it too many times just because I know it's dangerous even with sunscreen, and with my ghostly white skin and freckles, I'm a prime candidate for skin cancer... I wish I could do it every day though! It really did help. Now I live somewhere where the sun is nearly always shining so I can just go outside... Not that I'm bragging or anything, hehehe! ;-)

Much love,

Lisa

it makes my pain levels go up when it rains and yeturday it rained here all day long and it made my pain go up to about a 9 or 10 the whole time it was rainging hang in there and i sure know i am not going to like it when it snows tomorrow here i don't think we are getting very much its to soon for snow winter is going to come early this year i hate winter because i know when it really gets cold i will have a hard time even getting out of bed

I can tell you within 24 to 48 hours if its going to rain or snow my mom would call me the weather girl because i was always right i would start feeling pain :0( i hope you feel better soon jspencereds i throught i was the only one who could tell you if its going to rain or snow atleast i know i am not alone on this

I feel for everyone who has weather issues. It really does hurt worse and I understand. I am ready for sping already.

same here i am ready for spring to already