Does the heat affect Lyme symptoms? Like headaches?
Posted by chastain (Member # 34236) on :
I feel much sicker when it is very hot and/ or humid out. I definitely experience a worsening of my heart symptoms, as well as my headaches and vertigo. Jess.
Posted by faithful777 (Member # 22872) on :
Heat seems to exacerbate all my symptoms. I try not to go out when it is hot and humid. In my state, that is many months of being indoors.
Posted by philly78 (Member # 31069) on :
I have a set temperature where I feel best. If it is too hot or too cold certain symptoms worsen. I seem to do my best when the temp is around 75 but I still feel better in 80 degree weather than I do in the cold.
The humidity KILLS me. I cannot tolerate it much at all.
Posted by NJFitnessGuy (Member # 30886) on :
As long as it`s a dry heat, I can handle the higher temperatures fairly well, but have a HUGE problem with humidity. I`ve been getting spiking fevers, nausea, weakness, headaches, fatigue, etc. a few weekends so far this summer, but I noticed it was when the humidity was higher with the high temps. It just wipes me out.
Posted by krk (Member # 34690) on :
The heat today knocked me for a loop! I felt like I was suffocating, although Artemisin makes me suffer from air hunger, too. Humidity zaps my energy and adds to my headaches and dizziness.
Posted by ktkdommer (Member # 29020) on :
My thermostat is broken. Feel sickly in heat. Then in winter the cold affects me quickly and sometimes painfully at temps that shouldn't cause that severe of a reaction.
My Lyme symptoms are getting better but reaction to heat is not improving.
I blamed babesia for a long time but now that is under control or gone.
Posted by Robin123 (Member # 9197) on :
So here's a question - I read somewhere that Lyme folks don't know they're not drinking enough water. Add heat to that and we get heatstroke that much more easily. True in my case, and now I know to drink a lot if it's hot out.
Posted by Razzle (Member # 30398) on :
My internal thermostat has been broken ever since I got RSD/CRPS (1997). I personally believe I would not have gotten RSD/CRPS if I did not have Bartonella/Lyme.
Before that, heat did not bother me. Now, I can't handle either too hot or too cold. The heat makes me exhausted but unable to sleep, and nauseated.
The cold causes me to get chilled so badly that I shake uncontrollably and feel horribly exhausted but can't fall asleep.
Posted by Catgirl (Member # 31149) on :
Humidity makes my babs worse (shallow breathing, headaches, etc).
And the heat, I just want to escape from it. I think lyme hates heat though too, which is why I can't take it(maybe it kills it).
Has anyone read the book, The Tick Slayer (Fields)? The author sat in her hot car. This seems a bit dangerous to me, but whatever works for people. She killed her lyme (did more stuff).
Maybe lyme is protecting itself, because the heat makes it uncomfortable and it passes it onto us?
It's probably good for us. I know the sun is. I feel so much better if I give myself 15 min of sun, even if it's hot and humid outside. It makes a difference in my day. Even my herxes are milder if I get some sun.
Posted by Rivendell (Member # 19922) on :
I think that high heat actually helps to kill the spirochetes. So feeling worse is probably the dieoff.
And if you have orthostatic hypotension like me, hot weather makes your blood vessels expand causing blood to go to your feet rather than your brain, and your feel so much worse.