Comments on: My Own Personal Kryptonite http://www.rheumatoidarthritisguy.com/2009/04/my-own-personal-kryptonite/ Thu, 03 Sep 2015 17:55:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.3 By: Tracy http://www.rheumatoidarthritisguy.com/2009/04/my-own-personal-kryptonite/#comment-5405 Thu, 08 Dec 2011 03:46:17 +0000 http://www.rheumatoidarthritisguy.com/?p=64#comment-5405 My classroom is set at 67 degrees – not RA friendly! Long underwear and fingerless gloves are helping me to stay healthy… but warm baths and hand warmers sound great!

]]> By: Erika http://www.rheumatoidarthritisguy.com/2009/04/my-own-personal-kryptonite/#comment-99 Fri, 15 May 2009 18:23:37 +0000 http://www.rheumatoidarthritisguy.com/?p=64#comment-99 You’re lucky you can sit in the sun!

]]> By: Kali http://www.rheumatoidarthritisguy.com/2009/04/my-own-personal-kryptonite/#comment-35 Sat, 02 May 2009 15:12:08 +0000 http://www.rheumatoidarthritisguy.com/?p=64#comment-35 They’re actually a really sleek pair of earmuffs, this sunglasses place was the only site I found that had the exact ones I have!

Yeah, most people I know with RA, unless they have something secondary, warm weather is their friend. One of my closest online friends, on the other hand, has RA and dysautonomia. Dysaut responds very, very badly to heat, and as you know RA responds badly to cold, so between the two she has to be about as climate-controlled as I am!

~Kali

]]> By: RA Guy http://www.rheumatoidarthritisguy.com/2009/04/my-own-personal-kryptonite/#comment-22 Wed, 29 Apr 2009 20:23:59 +0000 http://www.rheumatoidarthritisguy.com/?p=64#comment-22 Kali, sorry to hear that the heat is causing problems. Throughout the year I am rarely anyplace where the temps are higher than the low 80’s, so I have yet to encounter any heat issues. I definitely have the cold thing and the humidity thing. (And don’t even get me started on the cold humidity thing!)

Thanks for the tips on the glasses earmuffs and the rice bags.

]]> By: Kali http://www.rheumatoidarthritisguy.com/2009/04/my-own-personal-kryptonite/#comment-18 Tue, 28 Apr 2009 23:41:34 +0000 http://www.rheumatoidarthritisguy.com/?p=64#comment-18 I’ll trade you my heat!

It’s been over 90 here for several days, and while I can bundle against the cold, there’s such a limit to what I can do about the heat.

Heat’s at least as bad for me as cold. Both of them make me tired and sore, and put me in a state of mental fog, but heat also occasionally makes me faint, and certainly makes me FEEL faint.

When it’s cold, keeping my head, ears, hands, and feet warm is totally vital. I have a set of these – http://www.sunglassesgiant.com/180searwarmers1.html – that I wear along with a hat, because otherwise I end up with a devastating headache.

Rice bags are a great way to keep warm. The quick and dirty way to make them is to take tube socks and fill them with about 2 lbs of rice, and knot the end to keep the rice in. That’ll take 1 1/2-2 minutes to warm up (depending on the power of your microwave). Just be careful not to get them wet (which destroys the rice) or over-heat them (which scorches the rice). I’d suggest going 1 minute, then adding 15 seconds at a time until you get a good feel for how long it takes to warm them up.

~Kali

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