Reply To: cold weather or warm weather?

I am an avid runner/biker/hiker recovering from GBS diagnosed January 2012.  I have some residual weakness but my stamina is improving.  I can run slowly for over a mile without stopping now, after 34weeks.  Heat helps a lot.  Because of the residual weakness, my joints aren’t completely stable which causes knee, hip, and ankle pain.  Loosening up in hot weather takes away the joint pains.  I also have severe back pains (like someone hit me across the back with a baseball bat, or maybe a shovel) and these muscular pains are taken away by heat.  Using a SPA at 104 degrees in Myrtle Beach I was able to quit Ibuprofen completely for five days!  Now I am up north and the shovel has whacked me in the back again.  I take 1600 mg or more Ibuprofen daily but hope to quit in due time.