I live outside of philly and it’s going to be 25 tonight. I would love to be in the sixties. I’ve been on xeljanz now for about 31/2 months the past couple of days my legs have been hurting I was worried the meds were starting not to work but I wonder if it’s the cold?

Lonie2 - If xeljanz has been working so far, I would suspect the cold for sure. I am also in a Philly burb and walk my dogs every evening after work. My foot pain is excruciating by the time I'm finished. New sorta hiking boots/sneakers arriving Saturday instead of just plain sneakers. I'm praying that helps!

Wow! Thought it was just me! The best thing I did was keep a log on my "flares" . It seems to definitely follow a cold weather pattern for me.

I looked back starting around late October early November of 2016 & 2017 and both years started virtually the same for my pain & stiffness levels. 2018 appears to be mirroring the past 2 years identically!

Low level stiffness & low level pain jumping from joint to joint. Mornings seem to be much better than late afternoons. I'm typically the worst right after I come home from work & start to relax & then get better closer to bedtime.

Seems like I stop logging around early January for both 2016 & 2017 so that tells me I started to get back to normal around that time & didn't feel the need to keep logging. Last log for 1/4/18 says, "Woke up, no stiffness, no measurable pain, except slightly in right index finger, gone by shower. no warm joints, no swelling, no red joints".

I did notice while flipping through my log that it was blank up until around March for each 2016 & 2017 & 2018 with some logging of joint pain, flu like symptoms but no real stiffness & for only about a week & then gone again.

Cold is relative. I have Raynaud's Penomenon, which shuts off circulation, turns extremities (fingers, toes, nose, ears) whte, then purple. Sfter warming, they turn red and hurt like hell. Where I am, it's been 44 to 16 for te last 10 days. Wear gloves.

I lived in Edmonton Alberta for 14 years with RA. The temperatures were as low as days of -40 C/F. Mind you, we had a very well insulated house, double paned windows, etc.

I don't like cold either. But, 60 and 50F? Sorry, that is a warm spring or fall day. I would be riding my bike in that. I always rode my bike to 5C/42F. After that, my reconstruction foot would turn into a block of ice. Another reason for not getting the other foot reconstructed.

Wear layers of cold, don't dress like it is 90 outside. Wool and natural fibres are better. Get an electric space heater, electric blanket and electric heating pad. Use them as much as you can. Don't be embarassed to wear a wool hat and mitts and a scarf. I do! Oh, Ugg boots and slippers. I'm not sure how Australians have made a product that is ideal for Canada, but I swear by them.

For me, it's not the cold, but the fluctuation of the barometric pressure, which changes drastically while cold fronts move in. Once the fronts have stopped moving in, then I am adjusted for the season. It always happens in the fall.. but I always get adjusted.
I was in Colorado during August and the temps were much colder than where I am from. The lack of humidity helped me tremendously.
I would like to live in a very very dry climate like the mtns of CO. I felt great while I was there. Humidity bothers me more than cold. But then again, that's probably bc fronts and barometric pressure is involved.