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Has anyone experienced issues with barometric pressure dropping?
Mon, 07/07/2008 - 03:49Hello 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
Yes, and I live in the mid-west too!
Submitted by Tiffany K on Mon, 2010-08-09 - 14:25
YES! And I only finally put this together recently. Of course I have many other triggers of seizures, but I also live in the mid-west where there is lots of tornado action and I was recently running errands in town (fortunately I can still drive, I have very good warning auras) all of a sudden it it went from bright sunny day to a dark storm rolling in in a snap. I was having a really good E day and feeling great, but right before the storm in the sky came my brain had its own storm! As I sat in the fast food parking lot that I had pulled into to ride out my aura and the storm I was thinking back and put together that this seems to happen a lot when storms come in, especially summer storms.
I thought I may be crazy and told a friend about it. She didn't think it was so far fetched though, and told me that when she was younger she would always get migraines when storms would come in. So, barometric obviously messes with the head, it would make since that it could be a seizure trigger.
Another trigger to add to the list!
Tiffany K.
YES! And I only finally put this together recently. Of course I have many other triggers of seizures, but I also live in the mid-west where there is lots of tornado action and I was recently running errands in town (fortunately I can still drive, I have very good warning auras) all of a sudden it it went from bright sunny day to a dark storm rolling in in a snap. I was having a really good E day and feeling great, but right before the storm in the sky came my brain had its own storm! As I sat in the fast food parking lot that I had pulled into to ride out my aura and the storm I was thinking back and put together that this seems to happen a lot when storms come in, especially summer storms.
I thought I may be crazy and told a friend about it. She didn't think it was so far fetched though, and told me that when she was younger she would always get migraines when storms would come in. So, barometric obviously messes with the head, it would make since that it could be a seizure trigger.
Another trigger to add to the list!
Tiffany K.
Re: May help, but not sure
Submitted by no alleykat on Thu, 2008-07-10 - 23:34
Hi, I do not live in the main area of Torn. But have had a few run through in the last few years. I get headaches an hour or so before the alerts. My main trouble is snow. Friends say, that I know when we will get some, before the weatherman knows. I will have sz when the snow is coming and Dr. thinks it is do to changing in pressure. Kat
Hi, I do not live in the main area of Torn. But have had a few run through in the last few years. I get headaches an hour or so before the alerts. My main trouble is snow. Friends say, that I know when we will get some, before the weatherman knows. I will have sz when the snow is coming and Dr. thinks it is do to changing in pressure. Kat