I do feel stupid for feeling this. India is currently on fire and also flooding iirc, by contrast here in 
it's not much hotter than recent years. I am lucky enough that we have a portable AC to run in the bedroom.
It's not the literal heat, our room is an ok temp honestly. But the heat seems to be breaking down my joints and bones, I feel like a decrepit corpse weighted with lead rn. This is the first time I'm feeling this too, didn't happen last year so my body is maybe decaying again.
I think it's heat exhaustion, I am making sure to drink and stuff but I just feel sluggish and sore, I am scarfing ibuprofen to little avail. Weh!
Joints hurt though
also is this actually heat trauma, cause yayyyy
it looks like temps in canada are about what they are in the U.S. South (though tbh, to me, north carolina is "the north," it ain't like the gulf) so idk. Buckle up I guess
if you can afford the additional expense a dehumidifier would help greatly, idk where the fuck you're livin' but humidity in Toronto or whatever is in the 70%s
if it's similar where you live then cutting that down indoors would help a lot, sweating will cool you more efficiently and idk I'm not a physicist but I feel like humid air is a better conductor of heat than just air, so you're getting smacked by all those hot ass water vapor molecules and just feel it in addition to your sweat not working anymore. Like a less intense version of having wet clothes on. don't @ me you redditors i said I'm not a physicist i'm sciencing on vibes over here, all I know is when it's humid af I feel it even before I have a chance to heat up and sweat
A/Cs dehumidify as part of how they work but like an actual dehumidifier would probably help more
you basically nailed the vibes based science
Ayy my wife was right, it is fuckin humid this year!! A real humidifier would be awesome...
DEhumidifier! DEhumidifer!!!
Don't be silly; you fight fire with fire
No you put the humidifier outside then that makes inside less humid by comparison.
This is how biology works too
My vibes based science says I think I'd get an extra AC instead of a dehumidifier. The dehumidifier will add extra heat into the living space, making the single AC work harder. The extra AC would cool more and dehumidify.
Idk i think it depends on what's going on here. Is your AC cooling to 70-75ish but it still feels hot af because it's humid? Get a dehumidifier
Is the inside temp too high because your little AC is too weak to cool the space? Get another A/C
idk dawg i'm not a doctor
I hope you're taking them with food. They cause ulcers without.
I try not to take em on an empty stomach yeah, ask me how ~1600mg of ibuprofen a day was lol
On the bright side, snack day snack day
Fun
any treatments or just water, food, staying cool etc?
Have to bring core temperature down. I put wet teatowels/handtowels in the freezer and hold them over my neck, wrists and forehead, then point the fan over them. Then, making sure to drink water with salts (think gatorade, or powdered rehydration supplement). Avoid diuretics (caffeine) because your body is losing enough water as it is due to sweat and transpiration.
Food I'm not so sure.
Thank you, good strats!! I do not have gatorade, alas...
You can jerryrig something with lemon juice sugar and table salt. Teaspoon of each per 200ml and stir to dissolve could service. I'm not a medical professional so I don't know if that's the best ratio, but that's what I've mixed for myself in the past
Ah my mother's awful husband was a perpetual drinker of the ol salty lemon juice, lmao. Thank u ✨