I have had RA, 33+ yrs, OA, 20 yrs, degenerative bone, joint, nerve, spinal disease-disorders for years. I know barometric pressure does in fact increase pain to unbearable levels. I’ve researched studies in all areas, followed several of the different groups who share their own experiences. It is physical, not in a person’s head; mine is validated with laboratory results, X-rays, CT’s, MRI,s along with Dr’s examinations. I’ve been on every pharmaceutical classification for these diagnoses, the first 10-15 years the DMARDS did help a lot however later trying Biologics have never worked for me & every one I tried lead me to the ER with recurring serious infections or to an Oncologist due to lab results, thankfully I had enough research to know what to do, take to begin reversing the abnormal lab results & by the time I got to see the Oncologist everything was back to my normal dealing with the ongoing pain, degeneration. I keep on top of my labs, have studied what each test means to the point that my Dr’s do not even call me to go over my abnormal results! We have had & are currently having fluctuating barometric pressure & it’s obvious. I take as little pharmaceuticals as I can tolerate along with a boatload of supplements, minerals & enzymes that I know help me & have prevented serious health problems. I want to see an integrated medicine dr but everyone I’ve found only takes cash & I’m on a fixed limited income, therefore I have sat through many webinars learning as much as possible to find what the experts suggest & juggle to pay out of pocket for these non pharmaceutical products; they have literally been a life saver plus helping alleviate some, not all by far of my agonizing pain.
I pray no one has to experience or endure the suffering I deal with. I know there are many who have it a lot worse than me & my heart goes out to them.
John M - 2 years ago
I also am affected by changes in the barometric pressure. I noticed years ago in my teens and wasn't believed.
For the person who suffers with phantom pain, I would suggest hypnosis if you haven't tried it. Using hypnosis, it's possible to move the pain to somewhere you can touch it, massage it, etc.
I wish you all well and a life of peace.
Jeanna - 2 years ago
My knees and legs start a continuous ache about 3 days before a low pressure. It requires pain meds. When my joints ache really bad my husband told me he had been checking the barometric pressure and always found it falling. I knew it already, but he was always skeptical until he checked for himself. Guess what, he is 76 now and his left leg does the same. My family text me often and ask” is it going to rain or snow? It is real! The barometric pressure affects a lot of people when it falls. It did my parents. My pain eases when the weather system comes, but is continuous in a cold prolonged rain, snow or storm. Pray you are not afflicted.
Carol Erkens - 3 years ago
I have fibromyalgia, migraines, etc. I can feel weather fronts. Increased pain and/or headache for major ones, ‘pinchies’ in legs/feet for minor changes. Tornadoes and hurricanes are the worst.
Monica L Cozzolino - 3 years ago
I am an amputee with arthritis all throughout my entire body due to surgery's and bone fractures...
I welcome the rain because prior to the rainfall I am in agonizing pain.
Once the rain starts to fall I feel 100% better.
Now my phantom pains can be tear jerking @ times.
Nothing can take it away!! I've tried mirror therapy, rubbing my other leg in hopes to soothe the pain in the place of where my right leg used to be.
None of it touches this electrical probing pain that I feel where my leg used to be.
Not until the rain.
What, if anything can I try next? Does anyone have any ideas for me?
Ironically enough my leg had been fractured in 3 places prior to my amputation...The shin, the knee and the ankle. This is the 3 points of phantom pain that I am experiencing.
Such a complex phenomenon..
E. Powers - 3 years ago
I, too, wish I could have voted for more than one--in my case all four. Until recently, though, I didn't know that the weather changes were affecting my blood sugar and blood pressure as well as causing headaches and joint pain. As I've gotten older, the headache and joint pain have gotten worse. What, if anything, is there for reliable relief? If CoQ10 is scientifically valid, I'm all for it, but I'm afraid that it may just be placebo effect.
Nancy Murphy - 3 years ago
I have suffered from headaches, sensitivity to sound, wbbliness, and pain in my lower jaw....trigeminal nerve. I started taking CoQ10 and my symptoms largely disappeared. For last couple of weeks they have retuned due, it seems, to drops in barometric pressure. Has anyone experienced pain due to coastal fog? Would greatly like to know. I recommend CoQ10.
Toni - 4 years ago
Every year in the fall, it seems I feel “off”. It’s usually when the temperature drops. I have dizziness, lightheaded, foggy thinking and overall poor feeling; even slight nausea at times.
I have seen this described as vertigo. It’s like my body has to adjust and it makes me feel undependable because I can’t seem to function normally. Even the angle of the sun in the fall tends to seem extra bright and I am super sensitive. I’m glad I found there is an actual seasonal barometric sensitivity and I’m not imagining.
Tracy Anderson - 4 years ago
Im actually wondering if I too could be having trouble with blood pressure. I do know for a fact since I was a kid I'd have pain. Now it's body aches and migraines. And sometimes I even feel really sick. I know it's the weather because as soon as the pressure eases up I feel better.
Shauna - 4 years ago
Migraine when weather goes up (cold to hot about 1-2 days before) and joint paint when goes from hot- cold.
When my daughter was 3, she also tested for chronic migraines (weather triggered) and my mother has osteoarthritis. The three of us dread watching the weather forecast. Luckily this day in age we are not alone, and can find a teacher/colleague/boss who empathizes or experiences the same. We just ‘cope’. Would be nice to have a better solution.
Sherry - 4 years ago
I've had episodic migraines since the early 90's. They became chronic and daily in 2009. It's difficult to pinpoint a trigger when they happen every day, yet I have noticed increased pain when the barometric pressure dips below 30.0.
What I'd like to know is what can be done about it? What kind of affordable changes can I make to my home environment (as I am at home, on disability 99% of the time), to increase the barometric pressure?
I'd appreciate any suggestions. Thank you.
Karen - 5 years ago
I have suffered with massive headaches just before a storm since a very young age. My head feels like it going to explode and one eye feels like it going to pop. What I found to help was to tie a scarf around my head and chin (tightly). It runs in my family my paternal grandmother was the same, always had severe headache just before storm according to my Dad (My Grandmother died when I was three). Another thing, when the weather turns wet or damp it cause my joint and back pain to increase it's like someone turning the volume up! I am glad to hear that I'm not alone.
Simon Christie - 5 years ago
I have fluctuations in blood pressure and Palpitations when we have a low pressure front.
As soon as pressure rises its all better
No one believes me though?
Beth Young - 5 years ago
I wish I could have voted for more than 1. Migraine is a given during storms and quickly moving fronts. But I also have joint pain and during dramatic shifts...like severe storms...my blood pressure is affected.
Susan Thompson - 5 years ago
I experience a but of vertigo when the weather changes.. on friday I felt slightly light headed,, and awoke saturday at 3 am with some serious vertigo,and a migriane, the weather had turned colder and a storm hit my area late saturday evening.. it is sunday, sept 8, now and I am still very wobbly, the headache is gone..Im going to purchase a barmometer..
Franklin - 5 years ago
3 pm 9/3/19 started extreme flare up of neck pain from arthritis and degenerative disc disease
Hurricane Dorian on the way
Velvet - 5 years ago
I just moved from California to Knoxville Tennessee. I have been having a terrible problem with vertigo. Could the pressure affect this also.
Donna Coburn - 5 years ago
Had always suffered with migraines for about the last 50 years. They stopped almost completely when I changed diet and started CBD oil.
Three years ago I got a choclear implant. I did not know going in but that whole side of my head in in major pain and a one molar in particular;
Where the implant is hurts so bad all I can do is remove the hearing device and pretty much no hearing ; pack the place where the implant in my head is in ice then when the
Barometric changes it is poof gone; no pain. The pain is so intense it has me not wanting to get the implant in the other side as I can’t imagine having that pain in both sides.
I appreciate your study and report as I kept saying this and people acted as if I was just imagining it
I have had RA, 33+ yrs, OA, 20 yrs, degenerative bone, joint, nerve, spinal disease-disorders for years. I know barometric pressure does in fact increase pain to unbearable levels. I’ve researched studies in all areas, followed several of the different groups who share their own experiences. It is physical, not in a person’s head; mine is validated with laboratory results, X-rays, CT’s, MRI,s along with Dr’s examinations. I’ve been on every pharmaceutical classification for these diagnoses, the first 10-15 years the DMARDS did help a lot however later trying Biologics have never worked for me & every one I tried lead me to the ER with recurring serious infections or to an Oncologist due to lab results, thankfully I had enough research to know what to do, take to begin reversing the abnormal lab results & by the time I got to see the Oncologist everything was back to my normal dealing with the ongoing pain, degeneration. I keep on top of my labs, have studied what each test means to the point that my Dr’s do not even call me to go over my abnormal results! We have had & are currently having fluctuating barometric pressure & it’s obvious. I take as little pharmaceuticals as I can tolerate along with a boatload of supplements, minerals & enzymes that I know help me & have prevented serious health problems. I want to see an integrated medicine dr but everyone I’ve found only takes cash & I’m on a fixed limited income, therefore I have sat through many webinars learning as much as possible to find what the experts suggest & juggle to pay out of pocket for these non pharmaceutical products; they have literally been a life saver plus helping alleviate some, not all by far of my agonizing pain.
I pray no one has to experience or endure the suffering I deal with. I know there are many who have it a lot worse than me & my heart goes out to them.
I also am affected by changes in the barometric pressure. I noticed years ago in my teens and wasn't believed.
For the person who suffers with phantom pain, I would suggest hypnosis if you haven't tried it. Using hypnosis, it's possible to move the pain to somewhere you can touch it, massage it, etc.
I wish you all well and a life of peace.
My knees and legs start a continuous ache about 3 days before a low pressure. It requires pain meds. When my joints ache really bad my husband told me he had been checking the barometric pressure and always found it falling. I knew it already, but he was always skeptical until he checked for himself. Guess what, he is 76 now and his left leg does the same. My family text me often and ask” is it going to rain or snow? It is real! The barometric pressure affects a lot of people when it falls. It did my parents. My pain eases when the weather system comes, but is continuous in a cold prolonged rain, snow or storm. Pray you are not afflicted.
I have fibromyalgia, migraines, etc. I can feel weather fronts. Increased pain and/or headache for major ones, ‘pinchies’ in legs/feet for minor changes. Tornadoes and hurricanes are the worst.
I am an amputee with arthritis all throughout my entire body due to surgery's and bone fractures...
I welcome the rain because prior to the rainfall I am in agonizing pain.
Once the rain starts to fall I feel 100% better.
Now my phantom pains can be tear jerking @ times.
Nothing can take it away!! I've tried mirror therapy, rubbing my other leg in hopes to soothe the pain in the place of where my right leg used to be.
None of it touches this electrical probing pain that I feel where my leg used to be.
Not until the rain.
What, if anything can I try next? Does anyone have any ideas for me?
Ironically enough my leg had been fractured in 3 places prior to my amputation...The shin, the knee and the ankle. This is the 3 points of phantom pain that I am experiencing.
Such a complex phenomenon..
I, too, wish I could have voted for more than one--in my case all four. Until recently, though, I didn't know that the weather changes were affecting my blood sugar and blood pressure as well as causing headaches and joint pain. As I've gotten older, the headache and joint pain have gotten worse. What, if anything, is there for reliable relief? If CoQ10 is scientifically valid, I'm all for it, but I'm afraid that it may just be placebo effect.
I have suffered from headaches, sensitivity to sound, wbbliness, and pain in my lower jaw....trigeminal nerve. I started taking CoQ10 and my symptoms largely disappeared. For last couple of weeks they have retuned due, it seems, to drops in barometric pressure. Has anyone experienced pain due to coastal fog? Would greatly like to know. I recommend CoQ10.
Every year in the fall, it seems I feel “off”. It’s usually when the temperature drops. I have dizziness, lightheaded, foggy thinking and overall poor feeling; even slight nausea at times.
I have seen this described as vertigo. It’s like my body has to adjust and it makes me feel undependable because I can’t seem to function normally. Even the angle of the sun in the fall tends to seem extra bright and I am super sensitive. I’m glad I found there is an actual seasonal barometric sensitivity and I’m not imagining.
Im actually wondering if I too could be having trouble with blood pressure. I do know for a fact since I was a kid I'd have pain. Now it's body aches and migraines. And sometimes I even feel really sick. I know it's the weather because as soon as the pressure eases up I feel better.
Migraine when weather goes up (cold to hot about 1-2 days before) and joint paint when goes from hot- cold.
When my daughter was 3, she also tested for chronic migraines (weather triggered) and my mother has osteoarthritis. The three of us dread watching the weather forecast. Luckily this day in age we are not alone, and can find a teacher/colleague/boss who empathizes or experiences the same. We just ‘cope’. Would be nice to have a better solution.
I've had episodic migraines since the early 90's. They became chronic and daily in 2009. It's difficult to pinpoint a trigger when they happen every day, yet I have noticed increased pain when the barometric pressure dips below 30.0.
What I'd like to know is what can be done about it? What kind of affordable changes can I make to my home environment (as I am at home, on disability 99% of the time), to increase the barometric pressure?
I'd appreciate any suggestions. Thank you.
I have suffered with massive headaches just before a storm since a very young age. My head feels like it going to explode and one eye feels like it going to pop. What I found to help was to tie a scarf around my head and chin (tightly). It runs in my family my paternal grandmother was the same, always had severe headache just before storm according to my Dad (My Grandmother died when I was three). Another thing, when the weather turns wet or damp it cause my joint and back pain to increase it's like someone turning the volume up! I am glad to hear that I'm not alone.
I have fluctuations in blood pressure and Palpitations when we have a low pressure front.
As soon as pressure rises its all better
No one believes me though?
I wish I could have voted for more than 1. Migraine is a given during storms and quickly moving fronts. But I also have joint pain and during dramatic shifts...like severe storms...my blood pressure is affected.
I experience a but of vertigo when the weather changes.. on friday I felt slightly light headed,, and awoke saturday at 3 am with some serious vertigo,and a migriane, the weather had turned colder and a storm hit my area late saturday evening.. it is sunday, sept 8, now and I am still very wobbly, the headache is gone..Im going to purchase a barmometer..
3 pm 9/3/19 started extreme flare up of neck pain from arthritis and degenerative disc disease
Hurricane Dorian on the way
I just moved from California to Knoxville Tennessee. I have been having a terrible problem with vertigo. Could the pressure affect this also.
Had always suffered with migraines for about the last 50 years. They stopped almost completely when I changed diet and started CBD oil.
Three years ago I got a choclear implant. I did not know going in but that whole side of my head in in major pain and a one molar in particular;
Where the implant is hurts so bad all I can do is remove the hearing device and pretty much no hearing ; pack the place where the implant in my head is in ice then when the
Barometric changes it is poof gone; no pain. The pain is so intense it has me not wanting to get the implant in the other side as I can’t imagine having that pain in both sides.
I appreciate your study and report as I kept saying this and people acted as if I was just imagining it