[Movingon69]

I live on the coast in Southeast Texas. Our climate is very hot and humid.

Before diagnosis and getting on medicine I was always hot even before menopause age. WHEN we had hold snaps I could handle it better than others, often not wearing a coat. I could barely handle the summers.

Now, I'm just the opposite. Inside the house I stay cold and often go sit outside in the sun to feel comfortable.

Has anyone noticed feelings about temperature related to BP? If so, do you use it to watch for signs of episodes?

Interesting. I've not experienced change. I've always been unable to handle heat (anything beyond low 70's). Often makes me physically ill, even with hydration. I LOATHE summer. It's an endurance contest. We don't have AC (or shade), so the only relief is the bus and grocery store. And work, TG. So that takes care of some hours 3 days a week. It's a 1/2 mile mostly unshaded walk with a big hill from the bus stop though. We've got high 90's (again) coming up. Goody.

I f****** HATE, HATE, HATE summer. And the sun. (I burn like a french fry, and sunblock is absolutely useless, so it's hat and long sleeves. Which only adds to the misery, but there's no getting around it. Also carry portable shade -- parasol, as the hat can only do so much. Sun's not always directly overhead, is it?)

Ok, there's my vent. What was the question?

[Unrigged64072835]

I don't if it's because of weight or meds, but I've been hot for a couple of years. I've become more intolerant of heat. And since we've had more humidity it's unbearable. I don't even need heavy sweaters for winter anymore. Waking up or having meals is worse. I just sweat up a storm. It's like a constant hot flash.

[~Christina]

I have never been able to handle the heat. But since psych meds came on board it’s even harder.

I love fall

[Movingon69]

thanks for your replies. Guess there's another reason for it. My husband is awfully happy, as I use to keep the house like a meat market.

[glennk]

I've experienced thermal changes since starting on Seroquel.

[Blueberrybook]

It happens to me sometimes. It's closely tied to my menstrual cycle.

What part of southeast Texas do you live in? I'm near Houston (La Porte). Summers here are awful for me. I've long been intolerant of the heat & humidity. I have fibromyalgia, and I think a doctor once told me that could make it worse. Not to mention, so many of my meds have heat warnings.

But there are days like today, I was freezing in the house (it's not freezing, our theremostat is at 74 degrees and since the house was built in 1964, nothing is energy efficcient, so we lose cold air through all the windows).

[Pookyl]

Since my bipolar diagnosis I have craved sunlight and heat. Withdrawing indoors causes a drop in mood so I try and get some sunshine if at all possible.

[*Laurie*]

Our winters have become nearly nonexistent and summers blazing hot with filthy air from the smoky wildfires. It's been day after day after day of about 100 degrees and I feel I can barely stand another day of being overheated. When the air finally, thankfully, cools down I have to go to bed to sleep. When I'm inside with the window a/c blasting away, I feel miserably cold.

Meds definitely cause heat intolerance and weird reactions to temperature change.I find that, on meds, feeling comfortable with any temperature that isn't 70 degrees is extremely difficult. I don't think it has so much to do with BD as with the meds to treat it.

[Movingon69]

Originally Posted by cln1812

It happens to me sometimes. It's closely tied to my menstrual cycle.

What part of southeast Texas do you live in? I'm near Houston (La Porte). Summers here are awful for me. I've long been intolerant of the heat & humidity. I have fibromyalgia, and I think a doctor once told me that could make it worse. Not to mention, so many of my meds have heat warnings.

But there are days like today, I was freezing in the house (it's not freezing, our theremostat is at 74 degrees and since the house was built in 1964, nothing is energy efficcient, so we lose cold air through all the windows).

Seriously?! Right now I live in Beaumont. But, if you saw my post about my new job I mentioned it is causing a move. We are moving back to Houston, specifically to the La Porte area. My husband is a Baytown firefigther.

[UpDownAround]

Originally Posted by Pookyl

Since my bipolar diagnosis I have craved sunlight and heat. Withdrawing indoors causes a drop in mood so I try and get some sunshine if at all possible.

I have been that way most of my life. I have had my diagnosis for decades and the symptoms for long before that so I am not sure about correlation. I grew up in the south without A/C until I was in my teens.

[Blueberrybook]

Originally Posted by Movingon69

Seriously?! Right now I live in Beaumont. But, if you saw my post about my new job I mentioned it is causing a move. We are moving back to Houston, specifically to the La Porte area. My husband is a Baytown firefigther.

LOL! That is so weird. I never even heard of La Porte until we started looking at houses, and I lived near & in Houston my entire life! La Porte/Deer Park/Pasadena (all 3 sort of collide in the area I live in) are all much cheaper than Houston proper or the Clear Lake/Webster/Friendswood/Pearland area (more high scale) as far as suburbs of Houston go due to the proximity of all the manufacturing plants to this area. Yeah, we've had a few shelter in places due to chemical plant mishaps, though nothing too serious outside of the plants themselves.

The really ironic thing is that if the Mechanical Engineering Department of Lamar University ever gets their act together (they have found a bad accounting error and have an upcoming audit), they want to hire my husband for a 1 year professorship (he has a Ph.D. but now teaches physics at South Houston High school due to continually being downsized from the Johnson Space Center as the government kept slashing the budget). The 1 year visiting professorship would likely lead him to a better job at Lamar University, and then we'd end up moving to Beaumont!

[pirilin]

52 to 92.

[*Laurie*]

I'm really feeling this thread right now. I have to run some errands, it is (of course) scorching hot, and I'm actually extremely anxious because of dealing with the heat. I'm truly afraid I'll pass out somewhere.

[Blueberrybook]

It's 94 right now in La Porte. Heat index of 105. UV index 10 of 10. Tomorrow, the high is 99. The humidity makes the heat so awful here. We've driven through Death Valley in the summer before, and yes, it's hot, but it's a dry heat compared to this area. Doesn't feel the same. Not to mention the overnight low is 78 degrees.

Even when we visited my husband's relatives in Los Angelos and would unfortnately pick the hottest 2 weeks of the year (my inlaws having no AC), at least it would cool off overnight. That doesn't really happen here.

I guess it would be a little cooler if we were on the old part of town fronting the ocean, but then again, we would have probably lost our house twice now in 14 years, first in Hurricane Ike and then in Harvey last year. Better to live a bit more inland though some areas still flood badly, depends on the area. We bought an old house (well, a mid-1960s house) that hadn't flooded through hurricanes and tropical storms in 2004, since it's ridden out some hurricane and tropical storms since it was built without flooding or falling apart.

Originally Posted by *Laurie*

I'm truly afraid I'll pass out somewhere.

Me too! Hot weather makes me nauseated and light headed. Drink more water, right? Doesn't make a bit of difference. I feel you on that -- it is scary!

[Movingon69]

Originally Posted by cln1812

It's 94 right now in La Porte. Heat index of 105. UV index 10 of 10. Tomorrow, the high is 99. The humidity makes the heat so awful here. We've driven through Death Valley in the summer before, and yes, it's hot, but it's a dry heat compared to this area. Doesn't feel the same. Not to mention the overnight low is 78 degrees.

Even when we visited my husband's relatives in Los Angelos and would unfortnately pick the hottest 2 weeks of the year (my inlaws having no AC), at least it would cool off overnight. That doesn't really happen here.

I guess it would be a little cooler if we were on the old part of town fronting the ocean, but then again, we would have probably lost our house twice now in 14 years, first in Hurricane Ike and then in Harvey last year. Better to live a bit more inland though some areas still flood badly, depends on the area. We bought an old house (well, a mid-1960s house) that hadn't flooded through hurricanes and tropical storms in 2004, since it's ridden out some hurricane and tropical storms since it was built without flooding or falling apart.

I call it peanut butter air. It's so hard to breathe with all the humidity. I've been through Death Valley on a motorcycle followed by Las Vegas in 120 degree weather. I'll take that over our humidity any day.

I was going to ask how you held up in Harvey. I'm sorry you lost your home. That was such a bad storm. Bad here too. Our official rainfall count was 64 inches.

That's so weird that we might switch places. I think a lot of the president of Lamar. We worked together a lot. He has a very dry sense of humor but is a good man.

[Blueberrybook]

Originally Posted by Movingon69

I call it peanut butter air. It's so hard to breathe with all the humidity. I've been through Death Valley on a motorcycle followed by Las Vegas in 120 degree weather. I'll take that over our humidity any day.

I was going to ask how you held up in Harvey. I'm sorry you lost your home. That was such a bad storm. Bad here too. Our official rainfall count was 64 inches.

That's so weird that we might switch places. I think a lot of the president of Lamar. We worked together a lot. He has a very dry sense of humor but is a good man.

We actually were lucky and did fine with Harvey. We did evacuate into deep into the Hill Country (past Fredricksburg, a small town called Brady) to stay with a widowed friend of my mother-in-law. It was an interesting evacuation with 3 cats in the car, but we made it. It was better heading there than the Dallas area.

Our house did fine. Most everyone in our neighborhood was OK, but one of my daughter's best friends lost their house (the area of the street they live on always was prone to flooding). They had to re-do everything. And they are still working on it and super-stressed about the situation (staying with a set of grandparents right now). There were a lot of students at my daughter's school affected. The school is closer to the coast and the district zoning for the students who go there are too. We are not zoned for that school; my daughter goes there because it has a dual language program, which she was accepted into in kindergarten. The high school got tons of damage, mostly to administrative buildings, but also to some new buildings that had just opened with the new school year. The high school is very close to the ocean.

We mostly evacuated for Harvey because my husband remembered Hurricane Ike and the loss of power (don't think we lost electricity with Harvey). I think Hurricane Ike was in 2008? My daughter wasn't even 1 yet, and he decided we shouldn't stay here with a baby, and we evacuated to Plano to stay with my sister & her family. That was a good call because our house was out of power for 2 weeks. When we got power restored, our neighbors directly across the road didn't get power for another 2 weeks. Our backyard borders the town main street and is between an EMS dispatch in one direction and a fire station in the other, so it probably had a higher priority for power restoration.

We just got rain with Harvey. With Ike we lost a large tree and needed a new roof. But the roof situation was actually lucky. We didn't get inside damage from it, and we knew when we bought the house that the roof was old and would soon need replacing. After the hurricane, the insurance company just wrote it off and paid for the new roof, a bit of a lucky break there.

[glennk]

It was 110 in the shade in Dallas.

[*Laurie*]

I have been thinking this over and, in addition to medication effects, I do believe that extreme mood states can cause problems with acclimating to temperature, whether hot or cold.