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LuckyCharms

(17,440 posts) Thu Apr 12, 2018, 10:56 PM Apr 2018

I used to silently laugh to myself...

when I would hear those old people say they could tell that the weather was changing by their arthritis symptoms. I thought it was a psychosomatic type of thing.

These days, I realize the error in my thinking.

A front came through today, and when I woke up this morning, I thought someone had broken in during the night and beat me with a baseball bat while I was sleeping.

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I used to silently laugh to myself... (Original Post) LuckyCharms Apr 2018 OP

It's psychosomatic. A sign that you're getting old Xipe Totec Apr 2018 #1

I wish that I was just "getting" old. LuckyCharms Apr 2018 #2

Nah, youre not old old yet jberryhill Apr 2018 #5

you want I should kick your geezer ass, LuckyCharms? Skittles Apr 2018 #7

oh hell yes, Kali Apr 2018 #3

Every time it snows... jberryhill Apr 2018 #6

I have the same problem..... chillfactor Apr 2018 #4

joints hell, i get migraines whenever the barometric pressure drops below 30 unblock Apr 2018 #8

Me too. Spring storms....ugh irisblue Apr 2018 #10

I use to get pain in my arms -wrists -elbows -thumbs Farmer-Rick Apr 2018 #9

Good For You! I Experienced The Same Thing.... becca da bakkah Apr 2018 #13

Yes, it's so much less pain Farmer-Rick Apr 2018 #14

October through April is hell for me, unless... Binkie The Clown Apr 2018 #11

Yep. If the pressure changes dramatically in a short period of time, Laffy Kat Apr 2018 #12

Xipe Totec

(43,890 posts)

1. It's psychosomatic. A sign that you're getting old

Reply to LuckyCharms (Original post)

Thu Apr 12, 2018, 10:58 PM

Apr 2018

LuckyCharms

(17,440 posts)

2. I wish that I was just "getting" old.

Reply to Xipe Totec (Reply #1)

Thu Apr 12, 2018, 11:01 PM

Apr 2018

I AM old!

jberryhill

(62,444 posts)

5. Nah, youre not old old yet

Reply to LuckyCharms (Reply #2)

Thu Apr 12, 2018, 11:06 PM

Apr 2018

If you think you’re old now, just wait another ten years!

Skittles

(153,160 posts)

7. you want I should kick your geezer ass, LuckyCharms?

Reply to LuckyCharms (Reply #2)

Thu Apr 12, 2018, 11:11 PM

Apr 2018

no baseball bats; no INDEED

Kali

(55,008 posts)

3. oh hell yes,

Reply to LuckyCharms (Original post)

Thu Apr 12, 2018, 11:06 PM

Apr 2018

crazy how my knees almost cease to function when there is a winter storm.

jberryhill

(62,444 posts)

6. Every time it snows...

Reply to Kali (Reply #3)

Thu Apr 12, 2018, 11:08 PM

Apr 2018

My elbows lock up and keep me from shoveling it. My wife refuses to believe me.

chillfactor

(7,576 posts)

4. I have the same problem.....

Reply to LuckyCharms (Original post)

Thu Apr 12, 2018, 11:06 PM

Apr 2018

I have arthritis in all of my joints.....I can tell two days ahead of time when there is going to be a change in the weather....I feel like I have been hit with a semi.

unblock

(52,233 posts)

8. joints hell, i get migraines whenever the barometric pressure drops below 30

Reply to LuckyCharms (Original post)

Thu Apr 12, 2018, 11:13 PM

Apr 2018

i know a storm's coming when that happens.

irisblue

(32,975 posts)

10. Me too. Spring storms....ugh

Reply to unblock (Reply #8)

Thu Apr 12, 2018, 11:34 PM

Apr 2018

Farmer-Rick

(10,173 posts)

9. I use to get pain in my arms -wrists -elbows -thumbs

Reply to LuckyCharms (Original post)

Thu Apr 12, 2018, 11:23 PM

Apr 2018

It was so bad sometimes I couldn't lift a glass of water. The pain in my ankels and hips would leave me limping. Then my better half put me on a low carb diet and cut out all the artificial sweeteners, even my diet coke.

I rarely have any pain at all anymore. Check out the studies involving aspartame and increased inflammation in arthritis. Don't take my word for it, try it out.Take away sugar or aspartame and see how you feel. Cut carbs back for 30 days and see if the pain gets better. I feel so good now I wish someone would have told me about this years ago.

becca da bakkah

(426 posts)

13. Good For You! I Experienced The Same Thing....

Reply to Farmer-Rick (Reply #9)

Fri Apr 13, 2018, 07:24 PM

Apr 2018

....when I went low carb. I keep it under 25 grams a day and my pains have been reduced by at least half. Same for my diabetic boyfriend. That made him a believer to stay off diet cokes, with aspartame.

Some people get all freaked out at fat in the diet. But SUGAR is the real killer...even whole grains. Also the added bonus of losing 32 lbs over the past 5 months, and never hungry.

Farmer-Rick

(10,173 posts)

14. Yes, it's so much less pain

Reply to becca da bakkah (Reply #13)

Fri Apr 13, 2018, 11:02 PM

Apr 2018

I haven't lost a lot of weight but am losing inches around my belly.

I thought I would reward myself for staying off carbs for 3 months, so I had 3 glasses of diet coke that night. The next morning I woke up in pain in every joint in my body. It took all day for the pain to subside. Never again I'm giving up that poison for good.

Stay the course, getting that deadly sugar and grains out of your diet too is going to make you feel so good.

Binkie The Clown

(7,911 posts)

11. October through April is hell for me, unless...

Reply to LuckyCharms (Original post)

Fri Apr 13, 2018, 12:04 AM

Apr 2018

... I put at least 2 or 3 miles on the treadmill every morning. If I skip a couple days my joints flare up with every passing storm front, and here in rainy Orygun, we get a LOT of rain storms in the winter. (I'm 72)

Yet, walking those miles on the treadmill seems like an effective antidote for those body aches and pains. For me, at least. Your mileage may vary. It's worth a try anyway.

Laffy Kat

(16,379 posts)

12. Yep. If the pressure changes dramatically in a short period of time,

Reply to LuckyCharms (Original post)

Fri Apr 13, 2018, 03:48 AM

Apr 2018

I can end up in bed and hating life until it passes. Horrible. And I ain't THAT old.

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