As for chronic pain, not everyone who experiences it reports worsened symptoms when it is cold, as Mica Fifield does, but there are plenty of examples. A 2016 case study described a woman with Ehlers-Danlos and other conditions who noticed that pain in her arm and nose was present mostly during spells of cold weather. Sitting at home on cold days certainly doesn"t help, says Fifield. "If I"m doing something like reading or I"m holding my phone, the pain will start in my arm and then it kind of just spreads."