i know for my self if its humid or if it gets really hot i get spams cramps and severe pain.My rheumy has only met one other patient with heat sensitivity.Are you also sensitive to light smell touch chemicals etc ?Im sensitive to all the above and samething rheumy knows of only one other patient like this.hope you get some relief soon.Good luck

He is looking right at a Fibro patient that obviously knows that heat bothers you. I am the same way with heat. I do much worse in cold but the heat affects me totally different. The nausea is horrible. I don't care what that guy says, if you are feeling dizzy and nauseated before even going into the pool, I would suggest to him that maybe it's not such a good idea right now! The dizziness could be caused from dehydration or low blood pressure and both can be dangerous. The nausea can be caused from the same. I hope you share this with your doctor..

I'd say your doctor is not very well educated about Fibromyalgia (FMS). Many of us are either heat or cold intolerant. Personally, I can not tolerate heat. I get agitated, dizzy and generally irritable when I am exposed to heat for even a short period of time. Even with central air, it makes me sick. I'm sure barometric pressure changes factor into to how I react. You are not alone with this issue. Take care.

I don't have more pain from heat (but sure do from cold!) but I can't tolerate it in other ways. I have a very limited "window" of comfort, below which I'm cold, and above which I start to sweat profusely and become very uncomfortable.

Heat and cold intolerance (one or the other, sometimes both) are extremely common among fibromyalgia patients - it's amazing that your doctor doesn't know that.

I have trouble with extreme temps. I am cold natured, but once the temp gets to about 90 I am exhausted. Under 60 I am in pain.

My joke is that my thermostat is broken

I agree that your doctor doesn't understand that part of fibro. That is one of the symptoms: being sensitive to extreme temperatures, along with light, noise, smell, etc.

I have had a hard time this summer with the heat...I can't stand it!

I just finished telling my husband that I am sweating (not perspiring) so badly that it is dripping off the ends of my short hair. My head feels like it is burning up in this heat and humidity!! I have had a salt free diet, but am going to start eating some things with sodium added. Maybe that will help. I know my son the football player has to have sports drinks that has sodium and electrolites during games. INot that I am all that active, but feel that I will pass out sometimes in the heat while others around me are fine. I find I can only go outside early, early morning and maybe late at night.

if i try to do anything in the summer, late afternoon i get very woozy and lightheaded even drinking lots of water. i have to lie in the shade a couple hours. then when the sun goes down, my energy picks back again.

Too much heat or too much cold, either can cause my flares. I swear I can tell a 1 degree change.

I posted this recently in the O/T Topics. It's a long read and an old article but it does explain well what happens to us re: showers, heat, standing for long periods. I want to see what, if any further studies have been done like this!

http://www.prohealth.com/library/showarticle.cfm?libid=16085

Hope it's informative and helps in this matter of heat and is fibromites!
Love and strength to you all, Musta

I'm the same as a lot of others that get "sick" from the heat. It doesn't seem to affect my pain like the cold does. But I most definitely get nauseated, dizzy, and weak from the heat!

I have the worst pain when it starts getting really humid or cold. I am like a barometer. I hurt like crazy when the barometric pressure starts to change. In this heat I sweat profusely, never did this before my hysto. I started taking red clover extract and it does help some. I no longer have to sleep with an ice pack on my head!

Add me to this growing list; I can not tolerate heat at all. The deep cold isn't my friend but I'd much rather deal with the cold.

I have always been intolerant to heat. However the past couple of years I sweat really heavily even when doing light housework. My whole head gets soaked and the sweat goes down my face. I look like I just got out of the shower, I get soaked. I hate this because I can't go anywhere looking like this, I have to take a shower. My hair has been thinning in the scalp area the past 10 yrs and when its soaked with sweat, I look almost bald. Its very embarassing and depressing.

I believe that the Citalopram that I take plays a part in making me more intolerant to heat. One of the side effects is heavy sweating. I am going to talk to my doc to see if I can get switched to Setraline (Zoloft). I have been on Citalopram for 12 yrs now and need a change.

I also get nauseated in the heat, even if the oven is on. I have to get out of the room and go near a fan.

In the winter, I am also the same way, I can't turn the heat up past 68 degrees F. If I do then I get nauseated and dizzy.

My dad was also very intolerant to heat so it may be a genetic thing with me or it can be the Citalopram along with fibro.

I am VERY intolerant of heat and cold but heat is the worst. I get nauseated, lightheaded, dizzy, very agitated, and become extremely exhausted quickly. No one understands what I am going through. I also am sensitive to smells, noises, lights, movements, you name it, it bothers me. I really feel crazy sometimes.