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Season Changes & MG Symptoms

With the weather starting to take a turn into Fall over the next few weeks —— do season changes affect MG symptoms? Do you find that a certain season causes symptoms to linger for longer? If not, is it more so random flare-ups that you can't quite pinpoint why/how/when they are onset?

  1. Having just been diagnosed this past spring, this is new to me. I hadn’t been made aware that the season change could affect my symptoms. My treatments are currently keeping me feeling mostly “normal”, so I’m hoping for the best.

    1. Hello This is my first post. I feel better knowing that the body aches and weird weakness when seasons change. I think the heat is far worse than cold. But, I break out in hives with extreme cold. A ice pack can give me hives. So I spend a lot of time indoors. But, I just had bariatric sleeve surgery 1 year in November and in April I had a shoulder surgery. Between reminding our kids to not sneeze on me and battling work school and home is a juggling act. It's not easy and sometimes the know not what they do.
      I am living my best life now that we are between the official start of fall. Sigh.
      Thanks for sharing it helps me so much!

      1. I find that as we change seasons, my MG needs a week or so to adjust. Hot temps are brutal, and cold seems to be much better. We live in an area that has four distinct seasons, so I enjoy the cooler times and suffer in the heat.
        I am a male 85, so my needed activities are challenged at times.

        1. Fatigue can be a factor in not getting up in time to make the bathroom.

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