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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. 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.

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

  3. i got a cooling vest so i can sit outside at night for a bit

  4. i am in mg exacerbation. staying cool and keeping core body temp stable helps a lot. even a littke heat exposure in summer heat wave is problemstic so im staying inside and keeping cool. drinking lits of water. resting. limiting talking. it seems to help my tired myscles work better to stay cool while flared up.

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