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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

  1. Stay inside.

  2. I, too, sweat like a garden hose. I sit with a fan on.

  3. If I'm active outside in the summer heat and humidity, I sweat like someone turned a garden hose on me. Then comes the stomach cramps. Then I call it a day, have a snack and a cold drink. I'm taking mestinon and prednisone and there side effects might be part of the cause.

  4. I am from india .new delhi....very hot here ......very difficult to cope with hot temperatures...always in ac

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