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What triggers a headache?

Why would someone get a headache just before it rains?

  • I can predict, with a high degree of certainty, if it will rain within a few hours because I will experience a pulsing headache (migraine). The severity of pain I experience has no correlation with the severity of the storm. I am curious to know if anyone with chronic headaches experiences similar triggers. I have been aware of these triggers since the 5th grade. My teacher back then offered the most plausible reason for it till date: she suspected that a change in barometric pressure had something to do with it. If this is true, I would like an explanation of the scientific basis/anatomical mechanisms underlying the condition.

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    Many migraine suffers experience headaches before and during a storm.  Your teacher was correct, the barometric pressure has an effect in your sinuses or any inflammation(think grandma telling you to take an umbrella because her knees hurt).  I live in Fl and during our rainy season I look at the black cloud and "just rain" bc once it does my head feels better.  But hurricanes and tropical storms like this weekend kill me bc the pressure is low and has/will remain low over several days w/ nonstop rain

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