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Sleep through the storm, dance in the rain, party in the sun, run with the wind
but throughout it all remember to listen to your body when it is speaking to you.
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Why is it that our bodies react to weather changes? Is this where the term weird science derives from?
I swear that my body can predict weather better than any meteorologist. Last week, people across the Northeast scrambled to prepare for "Winter Storm Juno". The National Weather Service was referring to it as a "historic storm". As I tuned into the news channels for updates, it felt strange that my body was not spiraling out of control. A fellow fibro warrior text me to say she had been following the news and saw that we were getting hit with a major storm. She wanted to know how I was feeling. My response "my body is not acting up yet so let's see how bad this storm really is". I had the common daily aches and pains which I have learned to push through, ignore or have since developed a resistance to. What I was preparing for was the excruciating back pain, headaches, fibrofog, pins and needles, burning sensation, numb arms, hands and feet. Basically my very own personal storm Juno wrecking havoc on my entire body not just the upper left quadrant.
Cold weather dry or wet almost always exacerbates my symptoms. I believe this may be caused by the heightened demand on an already overworked body. During extreme cold weather, bodily heat rapidly leaves the body causing your body to use more energy and resources that may have already been exhausted from dealing with chronic illness. Smaller blood vessels tend to spasm in lower colder temperatures as well. Some theory's regarding what causes fibromyalgia have suggested that small blood vessel constriction caused by an overactive sympathetic nervous system is the problem. If this is indeed true then we can understand why cold temperature would affect our bodies. Maybe the science is like a weird family member trying to get their point across. The message is clear but the delivery seems to always be the problem.
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