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Has anyone experienced issues with barometric pressure dropping?

Mon, 07/07/2008 - 03:49

Hello everyone,

Has anyone ever experienced aura increase (especially in the Mid West) due to the weather being over active? Case and point, I am in an area where tornadoes are active. We have had a few close calls. We're also getting a lot of heavy thunderstorms.

We had a bad storm end of June and shortly before the pressure drop, I had a really nasty aura and caught it with the device. Two weeks prior, we had a severe thunderstorm which I had three auras in a row, after the third one I went right into a seizure. I got slammed with a severe migraine which I never thought I was going to get rid of as it took almost half a bottle of Migranol that time. 

Now here we are tonight due for nasty storms and I got a heavy aura then went right into a seizure with a migraine afterwards. I checked and our barometric pressure is dropping again because we're due for storms Sunday and Monday. *sigh*

 

 

Comments

Re: Has anyone experienced issues

Submitted by wyboemail on Mon, 2008-07-07 - 13:36

My son gets really agitated during storms and seems extra scared of them. I am not sure but it could be his epilepsy making him more scared than a 10 year old should be possibly.

Very intersting. please keep in touch.

Curt     wyboemail@yahoo.com

My son gets really agitated during storms and seems extra scared of them. I am not sure but it could be his epilepsy making him more scared than a 10 year old should be possibly.

Very intersting. please keep in touch.

Curt     wyboemail@yahoo.com

Re: Has anyone experienced issues

Submitted by suebear on Mon, 2008-07-07 - 19:32

Hey Curt,

I just started tracking migraines and the seizure activity along with the barometric pressure dropping to see if there actually is a reference point or we need to look at another area. I will be in touch for sure. Hope things go well with your son too!

Sue

Hey Curt,

I just started tracking migraines and the seizure activity along with the barometric pressure dropping to see if there actually is a reference point or we need to look at another area. I will be in touch for sure. Hope things go well with your son too!

Sue

Re: Has anyone experienced issues

Submitted by ChattyKatty on Tue, 2008-07-08 - 00:14
Suebear Yes I have tracked barometric pressure droppings to my migraines, auras and siezures. My worst seizure where I went into a coma started with a barometric shear that day. I went to an aiport print out later -- my seizure started as the drop and then the shear occurred. I was in a tall building. Since then I have tracked and yes it still happens. Before the worst seizure I grew up with it happing before storms but I did not know what was the trigger. I have a primary metabolic disorder (urea cycle disorder) that affects the nitrogen and oxygen in the blood. Low barometric pressure raises my nitrogen which then triggers problems with the brain and oxygen. I have found articles written about it for military personnel. So we are not nutz. However I am now very afraid to fly because of all this. By chance the last time I flew, I happened to be with my medical group going to a conference. I am afraid flying will trigger the auras, headaches and seizures.

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