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Snow, ice, and thunderstorms all in the last few days...drastic changes in weather use to make me brace myself for an impending headache. However, as the months pass without incident (migraine) my confidence is growing in my Migraine Plan. Here in the past week we went from sunny and 60 to a beautiful snowfall to freezing rain to thunderstorms. Here I sit migraine-free (can I have a hallelujah please). Part of the construction of my Migraine Plan follows the rule of controlling the things I can, because I can't control things I can't control. Seems simple enough, and believe me in the state of chronic migraine I felt that I had no control and that this migrainous state had taken control of my body. I feel that by eliminating enough of my controllable triggers (diet and medications) and by maintaining consistency in my sleeping, exercising, eating, and hydrating I am able to keep my body from tripping itself into a migraine.
There is a lot of information out there about weather changes and migraines...and still some varying thoughts on exact causes. It's thought that possibly the changes in barometric pressure trigger barometric receptors in our bodies to cause changes in our blood vessels (dilation and or constriction). So far in this paragraph I have used the word "changes" three times (now four). What I know about migraineurs is that our bodies are extremely sensitive to changes (five). My body doesn't like change in my sleep pattern, change in my blood sugar, change in my hydration level, or change in my hormones. I can attempt to control my sleep, blood sugar, and hydration. Hormones along with the weather are a little more difficult to control.
Many offer remedies for weather-related headaches like:
taking a triptan when you know that the weather is about to change (I quit taking these as part of my plan)
increasing your daily preventive medication (I don't take a daily preventive medication)
buying a humidifier and opening windows (an attempt to have control over air pressure and humidity)
I will let you all know when I figure out how to control the weather, but until then I will eat my gluten-free oatmeal with blueberries and help my children build snowmen when it snows:)
This is delicious by the way...
Just some steel cut oats, brown sugar, blueberries and a little milk for me.
There is a lot of information out there about weather changes and migraines...and still some varying thoughts on exact causes. It's thought that possibly the changes in barometric pressure trigger barometric receptors in our bodies to cause changes in our blood vessels (dilation and or constriction). So far in this paragraph I have used the word "changes" three times (now four). What I know about migraineurs is that our bodies are extremely sensitive to changes (five). My body doesn't like change in my sleep pattern, change in my blood sugar, change in my hydration level, or change in my hormones. I can attempt to control my sleep, blood sugar, and hydration. Hormones along with the weather are a little more difficult to control.
Many offer remedies for weather-related headaches like:
taking a triptan when you know that the weather is about to change (I quit taking these as part of my plan)
increasing your daily preventive medication (I don't take a daily preventive medication)
buying a humidifier and opening windows (an attempt to have control over air pressure and humidity)
I will let you all know when I figure out how to control the weather, but until then I will eat my gluten-free oatmeal with blueberries and help my children build snowmen when it snows:)
This is delicious by the way...
Just some steel cut oats, brown sugar, blueberries and a little milk for me.
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