johnstein's Journal: Blame it on the weather

Just submitted a story to slashdot. I have had a couple massive-almost-want-to-cry-cause-it-hurts-so-bad migraines in the past month.

This link is a historical graph of weather patterns over the past month. Notice on the evening of aug 9 and the afternoon of aug 17 that the pressure is near 30 inches and rising. This corresponds with my latest headaches.

Sure, this might be a coincidence, but I have noticed for quite a while that I tend to feel strange when the weather changes. The stranger thing is that it doesn't always happen. You would expect that everytime the pressure crosses 30 inches on it's upward climb that I would be hit by a migraine. It doesn't happen though. So maybe it's a combination of several factors. The other linking factor is a slight lack of sleep. (5 hours or so each night) however, this amount of sleep (or lack of sleep) will not always produce a headache. hmm. perhaps when the body is weakened due to stress or poor diet or poor sleep, it can become more sensitve to weather changes. Hmm, any bio-meteorologists out there?

-John