Air quality and other weather related events affecting flareups?
Hi all, I am curious.
how many of you are affected by weather? what weather events? what are your symptoms? what is you diagnosis? what do your treatments look like? How does it affect your quality of life?
For background: I live in the north east and Canadian wildfire smoke is affecting our air quality over the last two weeks. I noticed a significant change in my symptoms. Fatigue, brain fog, joint pain, muscle weakness, headache. These are all symptoms that started post Covid and post air quality issues two years ago for the same reason. I have been on and off and getting better because I have been getting treated for the symptoms with hydroxychloroquine and as needed prednisone. However, I don’t have an official diagnosis although I’m getting treated as if I have an autoimmune disease. I’m curious how others are affected by this and what you do in these moments. The biggest effect this is having on me is my fatigue and brain fog, which is making it difficult to work for long periods of time without resting or shutting my eyes for 15 minutes.
Posted Aug 5, 2025, 10:18 PM UTC