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| I'm curious. I frequently get headaches, not migraines or severe headaches, just the kind that irritate until the Dual Advil kicks in. This has been ongoing over the years and I've mentioned it to physicians when I've been in for check-up or other reasons. There has been no explanation for the why or how. One Nurse-Practitioner, informed me that it could be caused by many different things and asked a lot of question. Since it wasn't seasonal, it wasn't environmental allergies, and since it was a daily occurrence, other factors were eliminated. But, there were still a lot of things that could be causing the headaches. Her advice was, keep a journal. Yes, journal my day with brief notes of what I'm eating, drinking, doing, and going. Also, add in notes of when headaches start, both day and time, so that we could look for a common factor. I did, but nothing seemed to be consistent with the headaches, not even what the weather was doing. After time, I stopped trying to figure it out; it was just a fact of life, and since any over the counter pain medication would get or at least reduce the headache, it wasn't a problem. A couple of years ago I put a new (to me) weather app on my phone. This app gives a nice breakdown of what's currently going on, UV's wind speed and direction, air quality, etc... It also show the barometric pressure and indicates if it's climbing, dropping, or holding steady. It wasn't instantaneous, but in a relative short period I started noticing that I had or would get a headache when the barometer was dropping. But, I had only noticed this a few times, so was it coincidence? I decided to keep a journal of barometric pressure in relation to my headaches. Instead of carrying a journal everywhere, I used the calendar on my phone and logged what days I got headaches and what the pressure was doing. There seemed to be a connection, so I logged the pressure as S.I.D. (steady, increasing, decreasing) every day as well as if or when I got a headache; the daily calendar made this easy to record days and times. It soon became apparent that if the pressure was steady, my headache was gone, but if pressure declined, I would get a headache. If it then became steady, the headache was soon gone, and if it started to increase I would get another headache. I also discovered that dropping pressure hurt more than increasing pressure. Yes, barometric pressure is directly linked to my headaches! decreasing pressure makes my head feel like it wants to explode, increasing pressure is less intense and more apparent in my sinuses. Steady pressure means no headache at all. I've moved to another state since I first started logging and watching this, so there is no going over it with that Nurse-Practitioner to share my results. She may not even practice medicine anymore. But, I am curious if anyone else has noticed the link to barometric pressure and headaches? |
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