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I do feel stupid for feeling this. India is currently on fire and also flooding iirc, by contrast here in kkkanada 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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[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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 kkkanada 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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I think this joke failstate is still on fire, yeah. Less reporting but the skies have looked smogged over. Solid ideas...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

IQAir has charts going back to early July. I find them more accurate/reliable than Environment Canada for live data and forecasts as well.