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does the weather actually affect migraines or am I imagining things

headcase_lol
genuine question because I cant tell anymore. ive been getting migraines for about 3 years now and I swear they get worse when a storm is coming or when the barometric pressure drops. but my neurologist kind of dismissed it when I brought it up and now im second guessing myself like today for example... theres a front moving through and i woke up with that telltale pressure behind my left eye. could be coincidence? could be that I'm just looking for patterns? idk does anyone actually track this stuff? like with numbers? im curious if theres real data or if were all just collectively imagining the same thing

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nomorelabs

it is absolutely real and your neurologist dismissing it is frustrating. there are actual studies showing barometric pressure drops trigger migraines in susceptible people. like published, peer-reviewed studies. i've been tracking mine for about a year. i use a weather app that shows barometric pressure and i log my migraine days. the correlation is super clear. drops of more than 0.3 inHg within 24 hours are almost guaranteed to trigger one for me

lisak_pdx

youre not imagining it. I live in Portland where the pressure changes constantly and my migraines track with it almost perfectly. I started keeping a journal about 6 months ago and the pattern was so obvious that even my skeptical husband admitted it. I showed my neurologist the data and she was actually interested. sometimes showing them patterns over time is more convincing than just saying "storms give me migraines"

helen_p

same. I can feel a front coming 12+ hours before it hits. That pressure behind one eye that just builds... yeah. You know exactly what that is. I've started pre-treating when I see a front in the forecast. Taking my abortive med earlier rather than waiting for a full migraine to develop. It doesn't prevent it completely but it keeps it from becoming a 3-day event.

darkroom_dan

real. so real. i have a weather app that sends me alerts when pressure is dropping and i basically use it as a migraine early warning system. has saved me from being caught off guard more than once

samj_92

yep my migraines and my fibro both respond to weather. double the fun. I've stopped trying to convince doctors who don't believe it and just work around it. the data is there if they want to look at it but honestly at this point i dont care if they believe me, i just manage it myself

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