Anyone else in the midwest get hit with a migraine about 18 hours before that storm system rolled through last night? I’ve been tracking this on and off for a couple years, but the pattern is getting too consistent to ignore. It’s not the rain or the thunder, it’s the barometric pressure drop that precedes it. The problem is “weather headache” isn’t a useful category, it’s too vague.
For the last six months, I’ve been logging the daily barometric pressure from a local weather station alongside my usual training, sleep, and HRT data. The thing that stands out looking at the monthly trend summary in the CareClinic symptom tracker is the timing. The migraine reliably hits not during the storm, but in the 12-24 hour window of the steepest pressure drop before the front arrives. genuine question, not a gotcha: for anyone else who tracks this, have you been able to isolate the actual variable?
Because I see a few possibilities and they aren’t the same physiologically:
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Is it the absolute pressure falling below a certain personal threshold (e.g., anything under 29.8 inHg)? 2. Is it the total magnitude of the drop (e.g., a drop of 0.3 inHg over 24 hours, regardless of start/end point)?