In Mo- Weather & Headaches

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Hi ,

I live in Missouri too. It's been an unusually bad winter here.

I bought a digital barametric pressure guage about a year ago so I

could keep track of how the weather changes are affecting my son. He

gets migraines that are bad when the pressure goes up or down and the

weather has been changing more than usual this winter. He normally

does better in the summer months. He gets them a lot in the spring

and fall even when the weather is nice as long as the pressure

continues to rise or fall. Windy days affects him too.

We haven't found anything to prevent the migraines, but he did seem better on

Topomax until the winter came. He had a good summer at least. He sees a

specialist in St. Louis. I just called his doctor to ask about increasing his

dosage. This week he's had a bad headache almost daily with the temp. going

from 60 to 0 in just a few short days. I've wondered if he would do better if we

could move to another state.

There is a weather pain indicator on weatherchannel.com

If you click on healthy living at the top you will get some choices.

Then click on " aches and pains " and you can put in your zip to get

your aches and pains report.

I just did that for my area and it doesn't look good for next several days for

us. We are at 5 on a scale of 1-10 for the next several days. My son is home

with a migraine today. I had a lot of faith the Topomax would be the cure but it

doesn't seem to be working now at all. Sometimes increasing the dosage has

helped in the past. Sometimes he has to go on predisone for awhile.

Cheryl in MO

- " " wrote:

>> I am wishing for spring. We have had more cold and snowy weather

> here in Missouri than we have in the past couple of years.