i grew up on long island with no air conditioning, just fans. it wasn't too bad when we lived by the water - there were always lovely breezes at night. and we had the downstairs family room a/c'd, so if it was terribly hot, we could camp out down there.

after spending five years in central florida with beautiful central air, i'm now spoiled. we have a two bedroom apartment, under 800 sqft, with three wall units - one in each bedroom, one in the living room which is open to the kitchen. i usually keep them around 72, but that's not an accurate temperature for our apartment. i don't know what an accurate temperature is because our building is ridiculously old and we have a strange thermostat that has three settings - high, low, and off. it's probably somewhere around 75 in here.

i don't seem to think the a/c bothers me at all. i do know that if i'm a bit hot, i will sleep TERRIBLY. so that's important.

I have never really gave AC a thought as to how my body feels but will pay more attention. Usually we have our AC set at 74 with no problems that I have noticed. My husband gets cold and uses an electric lap blanket but of course he never has a shirt on either, duh! But if the AC isn't set there I cannot sleep at night, I can breathe much better with where it is set, I've tried 75-76 and it's a no go. Indiana heat and humidity to along with it, don't know how some people get through the summers around here without air and especially with health problems!

When my husband puts the air conditioner in I pull out the sweat pants long sleeve shirts and sweat shirts and socks......I go to bed al bundled up like its winter and then when he leaves for work he turns the air off. He works third shift. It works for us since he gets hot easily and the air conditioner bothers my RA. So yes I have a hard time with it too.

I have central AC and find that if I leave it alone at a steady temp 72 that we are comfortable. It is fans that bother my RA, if they are in the least blowing on me at all I am in pain. If I have the ceiling fan on in the living room, I need to have a lap blanket over my knees.

I've started to think it's the humidity that kills me more than the cold.

We also have no A/C up here and we open the windows.

It gets rather chilly up here in the winter and I hated winters while living in Texas. Although it gets every so much colder in Fairbanks Alaska, it is worlds dryer. Things got humid and I started hurting. Yes, the cold affects me but the dry cold (like the relative humidity can be 15% or less) isn't a big deal where as the wet cold makes me whimper.

I have hot flashes, so I have to have AC...but the cold hurts my bones/joints. And, the heat makes my muscles weak and leaves me totally exhausted.

You sound like my mother. She's perfectly comfortable anywhere from 72 to 74 degrees.

I have many light jackets to wear whenever I go anyplace that has air conditioning. I just can't handle the coolness. I live alone and use my air conditioning but don't set it as low as most people do.

I have a tendency to have major sweats including at night. I sleep under three sheets. The middle one is flannel. I am cold when i go to bed but wake up with light to heavy sweats. Bummer.

I actually just turn on the ac to cool down the house. When I turn off the ac, I leave the ceiling fans on and I cool down with just the fans. I cannot sleep with the ac on. At work the ac is up so high that I just leave a sweater and a sweat shirt jacket that the hospital provides for us and pop it on when I need it. I need to take long johns and leave them at work as well as my knees get very cold.

I've noticed that when driving (outside sales, drive about 36K/yr) if the AC vent is directed toward me and blows across my arm then my hand and wrist will begin to ache.

Linzsey, there is nothing wrong with looking through old posts. But the guy that pulled this post up was using it to advertise his air conditioning business. He got banned. Plus, in the bipolar and many other forums, pulling old posts up and commenting on them is against the rules, if they are older than one year.

The reason is because the people who wrote the posts aren't here anymore to defend themselves. It sure is sad to see all those names, and all those people gone. And just a small topic, and so many posts and people participating in the thread. That makes me really sad.

i'm friends in real time with the folks that I adore the most. I would suggest doing that for years or decades. It works out well.

We were most lively here when we spanned different age decades and perspectives and genders current working with RA or birthing or raising kids or retiring or / and degree of difficulty with our RA or conventional treatment or other options - in other words when we had the greatest diversity and there was not one domineering voice of point of view.

pull up anything you want from the past on the Rheumatoid board - whomever is remaining will help with any interpretation. Newbies tend to ask all the same subset of learning questions. if you ask a blast from the past that is gone with the wind then someone else will step up.

hang in there Linzsey. and buddha you'll be back. we can count on you to always return.

What you missed was a post that was advertising that got deleted.

I wish I was in remission. I have just reached the end with what I am on now. I can't take mthx, because my liver enzymes just keep shooting up. So, my only thought is back to Rituxan, and not being able to breathe well. I just can't take this pain and stiffness, anymore. This is not about joints, but tendons, and nodules, and pain. I just hope I can convince my rheumatologist to do this, tomorrow.

I think we lost a lot of people when the forums changed over. Obviously, the people who have names on this post, made it. But, many didn't. I do hope they are all feeling better. I just wish I was one of them.

Thanks! He said Cimzia. I didn't even know we had that in Canada. With prednisone. Fun times! At least the pain won't be so bad.

Now I just have to find someone who will put my subluxed jaw back into place, from a flare that damaged it in July, when I was on one of my many "off mthx" times this year.

And my shoulder and the numb index finger. Don't worry, I am not holding my breath that they are going to improve.