I am staying home from a party/barbecue that I wanted to go to, because it's just too hot outside for me (87F/31C). This has been the shape of almost all my recent summers, is unlikely to change barring weird* medical advances, and not being able to outdoors on hot days interacts really badly with sensible covid precautions.
This particular symptom interacts badly with sensible covid precautions, and it reminds me of other ways the MS is a limitation, and I Do Not Like This. We may be going out to dinner with![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
adrian_turtle's other partner and some of his family next weekend. I really hope next Saturday is cooler, or at least that Saturday evening is cooler than this afternoon.
Given the intersection of MS symptoms and covid precautions, it may be time to look into cooling vests again. Air conditioning works at home, but people enjoying air conditioned restaurants or shops usually don't want any of the windows opened, for obvious reasons.
*"Weird" medical advances because one of my MS drugs had the really excellent side effect of giving me back my heat tolerance. Unfortunately, it would have been too risky for me to stay on it for more than 18 months, and "improved heat tolerance" isn't something they're actively looking for in the disease-modifying agents [sic] for MS, so it wasn't listed as a medication effect or possible side effect. Maybe there's another MS drug with that side effect, but I suspect I won't find out except by chance. [Having written that, I am going to try to formulate a useful search phrase.]
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This particular symptom interacts badly with sensible covid precautions, and it reminds me of other ways the MS is a limitation, and I Do Not Like This. We may be going out to dinner with
adrian_turtle's other partner and some of his family next weekend. I really hope next Saturday is cooler, or at least that Saturday evening is cooler than this afternoon. Given the intersection of MS symptoms and covid precautions, it may be time to look into cooling vests again. Air conditioning works at home, but people enjoying air conditioned restaurants or shops usually don't want any of the windows opened, for obvious reasons.
*"Weird" medical advances because one of my MS drugs had the really excellent side effect of giving me back my heat tolerance. Unfortunately, it would have been too risky for me to stay on it for more than 18 months, and "improved heat tolerance" isn't something they're actively looking for in the disease-modifying agents [sic] for MS, so it wasn't listed as a medication effect or possible side effect. Maybe there's another MS drug with that side effect, but I suspect I won't find out except by chance. [Having written that, I am going to try to formulate a useful search phrase.]
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I like hot tubs, but at this point wouldn't risk going into one alone, in case the heat got to me and I needed someone to help me get out.
I had a good-enough solution to this, by 2019, but it involved an air conditioned apartment that still works), summer socializing in air conditioned cafes and restaurants, and occasionally ducking into air conditioned shops just to use the A/C.
Pushing various activity to early in the day also helps; we unpacked a box of kitchen stuff this morning as soon as everyone had their morning caffeine, and before Adrian or I had showered.