It’s a question that doctors hear all the time from arthritis patients. So it’s not always helpful to believe that whole myth of “Go to Arizona when you live in the Northeast and somehow your pain will be a lot better.” We know that if you ask people to rate their pain in Minnesota or Arizona or California or even Florida, there’s no one area of the country where you’d say, “There’s less pain there.”
Doctors note, too, that when people with arthritis vacation in a warm climate, they often stay in a hotel and eat out, relieving them of daily duties that cause pain. And that relief can be deceptive, he says, because if they actually move to a warmer climate and resume daily activities, the pain often returns.
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