How Weather Can Affect Your Migraine Headache
Anyone who suffers from migraine headaches probably knows that there are certain triggers that may bring one on. Eating chocolate, drinking wine and even stress have been found to increase the incidence of migraine in many suffers. But one trigger that many people may not know about and have little control over is the weather.
Migraine headaches are extremely painful headaches which result from changes in the blood vessels of the brain and can be severely debilitating including other symptoms such as sensitivity to sound and light, nausea and vomiting. More common in women, about 18% of them suffer from this while only 7% of men are affected. Sometimes migraines sufferers also reports seeing auras or smelling strange smells.
While these unfortunate few have probably learned to avoid their triggers, one thing that most likely cannot be avoided is a change in weather. But a study done by the New England Center for Headache found that over 50% of the migraine sufferers they tracked did have a weather trigger associated with their headaches.
Of the 77 participants in the study, 51% were found to have had their migraines triggered by weather conditions such as changing atmospheric pressure, or extremes In temperature. These people were tracked from two months to two years and the Incidence of migraine was correlated with weather data taken from the National Weather Service.
It’s not well understood why weather effects headaches like this but migraine sufferers do so due to dilated blood vessels as well as inflammation of the meninges of the brain and perhaps weather patterns trigger these. Anyone suffering from migraines might find it interesting to keep a calendar of when they get a headache and correlate that with what the weather was on that day. Much like people who say they can predict rain by the pain in their knees or other joints, migraine sufferers may be able to predict the onset of a headache through the weather forecast.
While there is really no way to avoid changes in weather, determining if your migraines are triggered by whether might be able to help you figure out when one might come on. If you know about the weather conditions in advance, and you may be able to take preventative medicine to avoid the headache altogether. this would require some tracking and due diligence on the part of the headache sufferer but could be well worth it in the long run.
Anyone who suffers from migraines know how they can interrupt your schedule and put a damper on your life. So having all the tools that you can to help fight and avoid them make sense. While tracking the Incidence of migraine headaches with the weather conditions might be a bit tedious, if it helps to avoid a few headaches over the course of the year and it could be well worth the effort.
Lee Dobbins
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June 24th, 2009 at 3:31 pm
The card at the lower left, represents the first decision along your path. Obatala (Four of Discs), when reversed: Using your power freely for your own enjoyment and the betterment of others. Coming to grips with progress and using your position to help it along. Finding security and identity someplace other than in the possession of material things. Letting go and encouraging others to find their own path. Being magnanimous and generous with your success.
The card to the far left represents the first false path that may lead you astray. Gran Ibo (Two of Cups), when reversed: Instability in romance, friendship, or business. A deep infatuation that excludes existing friends. A false promise or premature commitment. The entanglement of male and female interpreted in the broadest sense. The profaning of the sacred through the introduction of base desire. Folly, depletion, and waste. May suggest conflict, divorce, or a severing of ties.
The card in the middle represents the second decision along your path. Damballah La Flambeau (Ace of Wands), when reversed: The seed of a new crisis – perhaps as yet unseen. The start of an explosive situation threatening to consume all who get too close. The herald of birth, invention, or upheaval. An innate and primal force unleashed. May suggest a surge of vitality, creativity, or fertility that can set dangerous events in motion.
The card at the lower right represents the second false path that may lead you astray. Secret Societies (Justice), when reversed: Lack of balance, harmony and integrity. The suspension of action until a decision is made. Lawsuits and prosecutions. Unjust decisions and the consequences of those decisions. A turn for the worse in legal matters.
The card at the top represents one possible mask of your true destination. Ancestors (Judgment), when reversed: Procrastination and indecision. Disillusionment and the inability bring a matter to conclusion.
References :
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June 24th, 2009 at 3:33 pm
Migraines are caused by different things. My
husband had a tumor pressing against his pituitary
gland. Yes everyone is psychic. Some are just more tune in than others. I hope the world doesn't end by the year 2012. I haven't finished living yet.
As for your sadness may I suggest you get some
counseling. It will help you through your teen years.
References :
mother of a teen
June 24th, 2009 at 3:35 pm
I'm not sure about the headaches.
The psychic powers, yes everyone has them, people have many things they don't know about and usually never do realize there present.
I find that it usually takes something to trigger them within you, for example a mother lifting a car off her child, shes just placed in such an extreme situation that the body defies all laws.
Well I may be the only one that agrees with you on that, I really wouldn't mind if the world ended in 2012, I do wish it would.
Sadly its not going to though, but you should stay around to see what does happen, I promise it will be exciting and entertaining. *Smiles*
Well I'll shed a bit of light on what I'm getting at, of course I cant tell you all of it, its not going to end that's actually just a marking point, although it seems no one gets that. From that date on things are going to be worse then they possibly already are, doesn't matter really the worlds already a bit of a hell hole as it is.
I'm looking forward to this even to tell you the truth, wouldn't hurt to have you there to.
Anger and sadness? Why would you want to cure that? Its necessary, no matter what doctors say your going to need it, all those who are straight up peace lovers are going to go down first.
Well if your spirit becomes a haunting one then mine surely will to, its fine ill just join you and all the other sad ghosts inhabiting this place.
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June 24th, 2009 at 3:37 pm
Wow, you've got a lot of different things going on those
questions.
Migraines haven't ever been explained adequately by
science, the cause or the helps for it. They think that the
triggers: weather changes, emotions, foods, release of
tension, etc. cause veins in your head to swell, causing
a release of chemicals and pushing on tender tissues.
I do a biofeedback routine, envisioning the blood going
out of my veins, flowing through my body and cleansed,
and I'm able to avoid migraines with it. You may look
into that.
Meditation of all kinds, talking with trusted people,
being with my furred family, walking with nature,
avoiding tv and news, and staying away from fast
and chemical foods, can all contribute to calm and
better life.
2012? My DH says it's taken the Mayans til then to
put a new calendar into place; those stone tablets
are a real drag to do!
Don't be a ghost yet. Live awhile still. The world needs
you.
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June 24th, 2009 at 4:29 pm
Does having migraine head aches represent psychic powers? and why do women get migraines more than men while a
having psychic ability more than men.
http://ezinearticles.com/?How-Weather-Can-Affect-Your-Migraine-Headache&id=395834
but anyways, why and how would weather effect migraines?
and more than men.
is it true that everyone has psychic powers? just you have to waken them?
I really hope the world ends in 2012.
I swear my life is over if the world is not.
but anyways, not discussing my personal demons, just answer each, and guess if you don't know, and if you guess tell me its a guess.
Also, can you tell me some calming techniques for anger and sadness.
Also can if anyone knows, if i die, and if i become a ghost, will i be a bed one?
like negative energy one?
just to give some info on why i ask, its just that i suffer so much and am filled with so much sadness angry and misery, will my ghost scare people? of be bad?
I heard most people who suffer like i do are like that when they die.