How Do You Cope With Hot Temperatures?
Summer is almost here. Does the heat worsen your Myasthenia gravis symptoms? Which ones?
https://myasthenia-gravis.com/living/heat
How often are you outdoors in the hot temperatures? When you are outside in the heat, how do you cope?
- Jodi, Team Member
For the most part I enjoy our summer weather as our temperatures are mostly in the low 70's to 80's, I find humidity more difficult to handle. I also used to find extreme winter cold very difficult to handle, rather like the "Tin Man" in the Wizard of Oz, but after my thymectomy and mitral valve surgery I can manage it by bundling up and pacing myself with rest breaks as needed.
Well, lol, between the summer heat, menopause and the body burn up from meds, I'm a walking furnace many times a day. Thankfully they only last a few minutes. Cold towel around the back of my neck, run cold water on my wrists, wearing a damp shirt also help
I constantly walk around with wet hair. 🤣. Thats at home. I find thats an instant cool down. When i'm out i take a spray bottle with water in it. Thankfully i don't wear makeup.
I have to come in from outside into our house's air conditioning.
