How does weather or temperature affect your rheumatoid arthritis pain levels?

I am badly affected by the weather at present. When I first presented with rheumatoid arthritis the weather didn’t affect me to much but ten years on there as been a marked change so if it’s cold, damp or rainy I do seem to be in more pain. more general stiffness and find I can’t move as well. I absolutely dread the cold spells now knowing how much and how deeply it affects my mobility. Even at a young age I had already made the connection with the weather as my knees used to hurt. My parents said growing pains but I knew it wasn’t and I used to take soluble aspirin and after half an hour it was gone.

Amazingly when I moved down self it eventually disappeared and I had a relatively normal life for about 40 years before it showed up in a different format at age 54 when I hit the menopause. Since then I haven’t been able to that normality. I suspect I had it in a milder form when I was a child and the move down south to a warmer climate pushed it into remission for several years but I suspect I had a susceptibility to the illness

I'm definitely affected by the weather when it's raining also when it's cold my knees ache a lot more for a lot longer.

oh yes, I do have more pains when it gets cold or rainy. I also try to avoid draughts at home as it can bring on more pain. would be nice to move to a warmer country..

I feel the weather more in my knees especially when it's raining they tend to be a lot more stiff and get a lot sorer quicker