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
Not well. I get very hot when I cook.
This is my first year with MG, last summer was fine, but froze this winter. Seems I can't get warm below about 80 degrees. My wife says if I turn the heat up to 80 she is moving out, so I wore hoodies and sweat pants all winter, and felt like I was freezing.
pretty much as outlined above outside early days outside and late days outside. I also have problems with cold. Just a few degrees drop and I can just feel like I'm freezing to death.
I’ve had MG most of my life and fortunately heat has never bothered me at all, in fact I prefer it and love to just sit outdoors anytime it’s over 70 degrees. I make sure to stay hydrated because Mestinon and Predisone make me sweat something terrible. Cold on the other hand can and has caused MG crisis. Even cool 40 degree weather just zaps all of my strength and the colder it is the worse it gets. During the winter I leave the house as little as possible.
