Does the weather affect you more as you get older?

[Cinnamonjar]

You know when the clouds are dark and you feel a storm coming on, or heavy rain etc. I know some people get headaches due to the change in air pressure, but the past few years I’ve felt a lot more emotional, or something. It’s almost like a feeling of doom when the weather is about to change.

Yes. The weather this year has made me feel utterly grim. Never used to notice it.

I’m 51 and haven’t found it so. But I’ve always been responsive to impending weather changes which my husband always finds strange and interesting, but I think it’s just because I’ve spent a lot of my life walking and cycling everywhere in places with very changeable weather. I’m good at ‘predicting’ rain, but that’s just noticing temperature changes, changes in atmospheric pressure, wind direction, clouds etc.

I think people with joint trouble are more acutely conscious of changes in barometric pressure, for obvious reasons.

I am heartily pissed off with the weather this summer. The wind up here is punishing and my lovely poppies are struggling to keep their petals and so many plants have blown down.

I hate the winter as I have a disability and the icy conditions adversely affect my mobility and freedom of movement. I hate the darker evenings - it is so lowering to the spirits and mean that to go anywhere you have to run the gauntlet of the selfish drivers with their piercing blue headlights that cause temporary blindness.

And yes - I have started to be so arsey about the weather as I have got older!

Yes definitely I have CP and it's catching up with me!
Both extremes of weather cause muscle tightness and joint swelling plus increased fatigue
Im 58 and since menopause I get weather pressure headaches
The dark nights actually make me feel claustrophobic but most people look at me strangely when I say that!

I am less bothered about the weather the older I get. Sunglasses, raincoat, wellies, umbrella, all help. Besides which, getting upset/moody about it only harms you. What's the point. 🤷