| Anyone who suffers from migraine headaches | | | | headaches like this but migraine sufferers do so |
| probably knows that there are certain triggers | | | | due to dilated blood vessels as well as |
| that may bring one on. Eating chocolate, drinking | | | | inflammation of the meninges of the brain and |
| wine and even stress have been found to | | | | perhaps weather patterns trigger these. Anyone |
| increase the incidence of migraine in many suffers. | | | | suffering from migraines might find it interesting |
| But one trigger that many people may not know | | | | to keep a calendar of when they get a headache |
| about and have little control over is the weather. | | | | and correlate that with what the weather was on |
| Migraine headaches are extremely painful | | | | that day. Much like people who say they can |
| headaches which result from changes in the blood | | | | predict rain by the pain in their knees or other |
| vessels of the brain and can be severely | | | | joints, migraine sufferers may be able to predict |
| debilitating including other symptoms such as | | | | the onset of a headache through the weather |
| sensitivity to sound and light, nausea and vomiting. | | | | forecast. |
| More common in women, about 18% of them | | | | While there is really no way to avoid changes in |
| suffer from this while only 7% of men are | | | | weather, determining if your migraines are |
| affected. Sometimes migraines sufferers also | | | | triggered by whether might be able to help you |
| reports seeing auras or smelling strange smells. | | | | figure out when one might come on. If you know |
| While these unfortunate few have probably | | | | about the weather conditions in advance, and you |
| learned to avoid their triggers, one thing that | | | | may be able to take preventative medicine to |
| most likely cannot be avoided is a change in | | | | avoid the headache altogether. this would require |
| weather. But a study done by the New England | | | | some tracking and due diligence on the part of |
| Center for Headache found that over 50% of the | | | | the headache sufferer but could be well worth it |
| migraine sufferers they tracked did have a | | | | in the long run. |
| weather trigger associated with their headaches. | | | | Anyone who suffers from migraines know how |
| Of the 77 participants in the study, 51% were | | | | they can interrupt your schedule and put a |
| found to have had their migraines triggered by | | | | damper on your life. So having all the tools that |
| weather conditions such as changing atmospheric | | | | you can to help fight and avoid them make sense. |
| pressure, or extremes In temperature. These | | | | While tracking the Incidence of migraine |
| people were tracked from two months to two | | | | headaches with the weather conditions might be a |
| years and the Incidence of migraine was | | | | bit tedious, if it helps to avoid a few headaches |
| correlated with weather data taken from the | | | | over the course of the year and it could be well |
| National Weather Service. | | | | worth the effort. |
| It's not well understood why weather effects | | | | |