The Hot is on its way

It's going to be getting hot and I'm dreading it, I feel so listless and ill in hot weather and thats anything over about 23.C, maybe 25.C at a stretch if we got a good breeze, but today its muggy and overcast, even with a breeze.

I don't want to ruin the other thread about summer with my complaining, but it's my worst time of year, the neighbours are being noisy, I can hear them and thier music even though the doors and windows are shut, there are herds of tourists so there are few places I can safely walk Fearn.

I get terrible water retention in hot weather and feel bloated all the time, I sweat buckets and feel thirsty, but also bloated with the amount of fluid I have to drink, I think my blood pressure crashes as I don't seem to be able to get cool, or get rid of the sweat and I feel dizzy much of the time, sometimes it gets so bad that I can't eat, I once went for 5 days without eating, I just couldn't swallow anything solid, I sometimes have to force myself to drink. I've been to the doctors, they've run loads of tests and can't find anything wrong. I think it's summer SAD, but theres almost nothing about this anywhere except one psychiatrist who believes its depression! Well Duh, of course I get depressed, I'm ill and I don't know why, I get shouted and complained at because I can't do the things most others enjoy and I'm just being "miserable and attention seeking" and then people wonder why I avoid others?

Parents
  • I appreciate this won’t be within everyone’s budget, but a few years ago we decided to treat home air conditioning as a health and sensory accommodation. It was available in so many other places (cars, shops, on holiday, etc), but we didn't have it at home, where we needed it the most.

    Costs can vary hugely, with options ranging from portable units to single- or multi-room fitted systems (which can also be used for heating). And there are trade-offs - for example, they can be noisy, and true portable air-con units need venting through a window.

    I don't mention this insensitively in respect of cost, but hot weather can be badly disabling and air conditioning - if affordable - can really help, which I can vouch for.

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  • I appreciate this won’t be within everyone’s budget, but a few years ago we decided to treat home air conditioning as a health and sensory accommodation. It was available in so many other places (cars, shops, on holiday, etc), but we didn't have it at home, where we needed it the most.

    Costs can vary hugely, with options ranging from portable units to single- or multi-room fitted systems (which can also be used for heating). And there are trade-offs - for example, they can be noisy, and true portable air-con units need venting through a window.

    I don't mention this insensitively in respect of cost, but hot weather can be badly disabling and air conditioning - if affordable - can really help, which I can vouch for.

Children
  • All the aircon I've every experienced is very noisy, it's also very drying to the skin and makes you thirsty, theres got to be a better way?

    I have head of air source heat pumps that can do the reverse and cool things down, now that would be better as it would be less noisy, but again it's the cost and having a suitable house