This is a little OT, but have any of you ever moved to a new climate

[Lucinda]

for health reasons?
And did it help?

This season change seems to have kicked my joint pain into overdrive.
Bill's mom had left Ohio to move to Florida when she was a young woman due to arthritis, but she isn't around for me to ask about it. Have any of you moved for health reasons?

[The empressof all]

1. I'm up in the Seattle area and the winter dampness kills my joints

I've thought about relocating to Tuscon or Palm Springs. I have family in Florida but I couldn't take the humidity. Ideally, I'll win Lotto so I can keep my house in WA and have a winter place someplace warmer and dryer. SO and I have talked about trying to rent or do a home exchange to try it out to see if it helps.

[yellerpup]

2. I moved from hot, hot Oklahoma

to NYC. The East Coast definitely agrees with me. I will feel it in my joints (mildly) and in my surgical scars (sharp pinging) when a storm is brewing but otherwise the weather here is bliss for me.

[Warpy]

3. The stress of moving can trigger a flareup

Some people who are bothered by weather can get some relief by moving to the opposite climate.

People with lung disease were moved out here in the early part of the last century on the theory that the dry air would dry up their TB secretions.

There is a long history of people with TB in northern Europe moving to Italy to decrease their symptoms.

It's not unheard of, in other words. However, the move itself can be very stressful and if your joint pain is autoimmune, that alone can cause them to hurt worse.