Fibromyalgia in the summer: Does the heat trigger your flare-ups?🌡️

Hi everyone, how are you holding up today?

For many people living with fibromyalgia, summer isn’t always a season of relief, it can actually make things harder. Heat intolerance, worsened fatigue, brain fog, nausea, and even increased pain are just some of the symptoms that can flare when temperatures rise. Some of this may be linked to how our bodies regulate (or struggle to regulate) temperature, or how medications interact with dehydration or sunlight.

Others have underlying conditions like PoTS or hypermobility that make hot weather especially brutal. And sometimes, the problem isn’t the heat itself, it’s the disrupted sleep, inflammation, or sensory overload that comes with it.

☀️ So we want to hear from you:

Do you notice a flare-up in symptoms during the summer?

How do you cope when the heat feels unbearable?

Have you found any tricks that make a real difference?

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Let’s share ideas and support, because this part of fibromyalgia deserves more awareness too.

Take care,

Somya from the Carenity team 🌼