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!
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I just arrived Wuhan, China last night and it's 30°C lowest. 03:00 I got up and it was 30°C. It's currently 38°C.
I woke up yesterday morning to -3°C while on my way to the airport.
My cursed flesh body really doesn't like that temperature swing.
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The air con is set to 28°C (you know, to save money) which is quite pleasant compared to 38°C and 65% humidity outside, but 2 days ago in Australia my heater was set to 26°C.
If I didn't live with white people I'd just wear more layers at home, it turns out the average Australian Anglo deals with the cold by way of ruining the planet some more.
Dang, that sucks. My household hates turning on the heater unless absolutely necessary, so I've been wearing a thermal sweater, sweatpants, and a blanket hoodie to keep warm.
my heater was set to 26°C.
26C = 78.8F
Are you fucking insane
In my Florida apartment we usually did heat to 68 and AC to 78, which is 20C and 26C. That was the highest we could set the AC to that I wasn’t just sweating 24/7.
The white people I live with turn the heat up really high, idk why. I'm prepared to wear layers like a normal person but someone insists on having T shirt weather indoors in the middle of winter (hint: it's a white person from Queensland)
That’s fucking wild. Like, it’s been a requirement in most of my lease that we keep the AC at or below 78C to discourage mold growth
Uhh, like inside or outside temps? I would hope you have AC in Wuhan of all cities right?
There is, but I've unfortunately had to be outdoors for a 10km walk (for """health""") and then street food. I'm presently in 28° A/C but half the day it was unabated h e a t
In the short term, cold showers and wet clothes are useful. Longer term I've found that a bit cardio helps massively with heat tolerance after a week or so. I mean the difference between 21 feeling warm before and 23 feeling chilly after a solid week of cardio.
Cardio, I have not been moving much but yeah maybe... would be good...
Yeah I was honestly kinda shocked, but it really helped. Took a cool shower after and it might as well have been late fall. It'll probably take a week or a few weeks so be patient. But it really helped my heat tolerance.
Cold showers for sure. But I never knew about the cardio thing, will have to give that a try when summer comes around!
I hate anything above 25° fuck off sun and dead air. Gimme some rain, how the heck am I gonna wash my neck if it ain't gonna rain no more?
Gimme some rain
That just makes it hot and muggy down where I am lol. Plus, I've got trees dropping branches these days ughh.
I finally had the time and money to get an AC unit. Stayed up late only to find it doesn't fit, so malding a bit as well at the moment.
Damn that sucks... ACs are really poorly equipped for the variety of windows in houses.
They have portable AC units that uses a a pipe to blow the hot air out through a narrow slot in your window, so it will fit any window.
the one-pipe types are awful though, they create negative pressure inside the house, which means the house will immediately start sucking hot air in through every crack.
do not go lower than two-pipe portable ACs
Also the pipe radiates heat like nobodies business. I hate them so much
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
Ayy my wife was right, it is fuckin humid this year!! A real humidifier would be awesome...
No you put the humidifier outside then that makes inside less humid by comparison.
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
I try not to take em on an empty stomach yeah, ask me how ~1600mg of ibuprofen a day was lol
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.
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 ✨
100pct, I live in an older house in the midwest so all summer it doesn't get below 85F/60% humidity or so indoors. People barely use window ACs out here, central air doesn't exist frankly, an older neighbor of mine passed when we had our last heatwave, and another had something where he can no longer drive, and despite he former not being reported as a heat death I strongly suspect it was. Window ACs are super expensive to run and I can only cool it into the 80s at best. If I run it all day it'll just ice up on me and be totally useless. I saved up and finally bought a new one (along with a dehumidifier), we'll see how it does.
When it gets as humid as it does here the wet your sheets wet towel business to keep cool doesn't work well. In CA at least it was a dry heat and you could just wet a towel and lie and rot even if it was like 95 indoors with a fan and wet towel, here there's no comfort. I can't do any of my hobbies in summer since its so hot, and its no wonder my mood always tanks in summer. I always wake up sweaty and after work its like coming to a fucking fire. During the heatwave I had to take an ice cube bath, it was so damn hot even my cats joined me.
I've found working out even in the heat helps, just be careful. Drinking spicy things and eating soup also seems to help though this sounds like a poor plan.
Thermostat in the bedroom says 28.5°C at night and 31.0°C at day... Bout 27°C outside during the day.
Solidarity with my sweaty comrades. It’s been mid nineties F all week long, with relative humidity in the 80’ & 90’s. Heat index in the mid 110s. This past week I’ve been guzzling fluids in attempt to stay hydrated and keep from dying of heatstroke. Something like 2 gallons a day in some combo of water, electrolyte drinks etc.
The only way I’ve found to be able to tolerate the heat is to be exposed to it constantly. Working outside while it’s cool, and just tolerating the days as they transition from cool to hot to scorching. You just slowly sorta break your body against the incessant heat and it just let it wash over you.
If for some unavoidable reason you find yourself outside - wear big hats, sunscreen, long sleeves. Loose fitting cotton clothing. Water, but at some point you supplement with electrolyte drinks. Pickles and vinegary foods, salty foods like potato chips. Regular water breaks. Avoid the sun from 11a-3p if possible.
And try to pay attention for signs of heatstroke/heat exhaustion. To yourself and to your coworkers or comrades if out with others.
I always wear loose fitting cotton long sleeves, hats, long trousers and such! Salty food is good to know, ty. Always can be drinking more water too.
Funny enough my job never had real policy around heat, just an informal "drink water take breaks" in apartment buildings lacking AC in August. Lole.
Oh man, my partner and I moved out of Florida a couple days ago and she got heat stroke from waiting in a car with only partially working AC for just a few minutes. She stopped sweating, she could barely even think enough to get out of the car, and eventually just started crying and screaming. It was scary as fuck and she’s still shaky a couple days later.
We are now in Virginia where it’s a high of 78 today and we had the windows open all night I’m thriving
My bedroom is 28C when cool and 30C during evenings and it's too much. I thought I could take it, but I can't. Just running the heat pump as an air conditioner, which only really cools the dining room and living room. My room has literally zero airflow. I've tried placing fans everywhere to funnel air in or out. Doesn't work.
Don't sleep on footbaths, a small tub of Canadian tapwater should be cool enough to pull the heat right out of you
I know you don't mean it like that but
"India is currently on fire and also flooding iirc, here in
it's not much hotter than recent years"totally makes you seem like a typical Canadian calling their country India because of all the immigrants lol
Wtf really, I mean I know the average Klanadian is like viciously racist but that is not at all the intent. I saw someone on here recently talking about current conditions in India is all... Canada is not majorly flooding from what I know?
Wowee I should not speak
Since no one else in the thread has mentioned it, do you have wildfire smoke in addition to the heat? Even a few days at a lower aqi (75-100) can make me feel that weighed down/tired feeling in my body, in addition to the headaches. Where I am in
has been like that almost every day in June and July.To combat this I close windows and have an air purifier on. You can build a corsi-rosenthal box or just duct tape a single high quality furnace filter to the back of a box fan for even cheaper.
I think this joke failstate is still on fire, yeah. Less reporting but the skies have looked smogged over. Solid ideas...
IQAir has charts going back to early July. I find them more accurate/reliable than Environment Canada for live data and forecasts as well.
I'm probably almost as far north as you, but slightly more heat adapted since our weather gets pretty hot lately, and I would say just say get fans and stay super hydrated, and ofc dress light. I genuinely go from feeling hot and terrible to being a little bit cold, just from having a fan on me instead of dead air. also if its cooler outside you should probably try and get out, there will probably be a breeze too, go find a shady tree to sit under or put up a hammock or something.
my condolences that is awful.
also is this actually heat trauma, cause yayyyy
any treatments or just water, food, staying cool etc?
