When rain or storms come through storms or associated generally with low barometric pressure and low barometric pressure causes expansion of fluid and joints throughout our body, by analogy you may have experienced swollen feet after a plane flight from cabin pressure allowing pooling of blood in your feet, the reason for that is that your feet or furthest Location from your heart and downhill, it makes it hard for your heart to pump fluid and next thing you know your feet get puffy from that fluid building up and in a light manner barometric pressure drop from a strong front allows pressure to build up inside each of the foot in liquid filled joints up and down your neck causing them to expand and those or surrounded by joint capsule that hold the fluid in them and in turn they send pain signals that Cascades and nerves that go up into your head and face, it’s a cycling easy elbow and no pain travels out your fingers but in this case your nerve pain travels up into your head and face and when you clear the joints overload or inflammation problems, the headache and migraine with weather change occurs.
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How Do Weather Changes Impact On Migraine?
Do you know some people get a headache when it rains, storms, and when the weather changes? Weather-related headaches are common. And there have been some studies linking the connection between changes in the weather and headaches or migraines, but there are still some conflicting results, you cannot forecast every migraine but that doesn’t mean neurologists are ruling out the connection. As of a 2011 study in Japan 64% of people migraine patients suffered from headaches in the days before and after weather changes. Weather is a trigger for a significant majority of these patients perhaps 50 to 75% of patients are quite aware of the fact that the weather plays a role in triggering their migraine attacks, however, that specific weather pattern could be very individual.
The vast majority of weather elements do play a role in many of our migraine patients, so looking at a group of migraine patients and what we realize now is that it is probably a subset of individuals with migraine that are vulnerable to weather triggers, so when you look at too many migraine patients, including those who don’t have a weather trigger it dilutes the data.
The weather itself is a trigger of headache, when present at a strong intensity or in conjunction with other triggers such as certain foods or somebody who suffer from a poor night's sleep, or it could be enough to set up a perfect storm for an individual to experience a headache.
So what type of weather would trigger a headache?
Some patients may be vulnerable to a rise in barometric pressure. The majority of migraine patients feel like it’s a drop in the barometric pressure as a storm is moving in, storm themselves can be triggering, a lightening was shown to increase the risk of triggering a migraine attack in an American study but many other patients feel like it is a temperature change such as hot sun, rainy day, and when there is just a lot of glare going around, other patients feel like the wind plays a role in triggering their migraine.
Also, some people experience weather triggers including high humidity, extreme heat, and dry air, and neurologist suggests drinking enough water to be hydrated is important because hydration could be a trigger for your migraine.
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