Weather Changes and Headaches

Do you ever feel like your head is going to split openpersonal barometer in their skulls. During this last
or that it is a balloon ready to pop? Does your headrainstorm, I found out that many people were also
ever hurt before a storm? Does it get better once thehaving serious headaches. My doctor said that many
rain comes? Have you ever noticed that when theheadaches are caused by weather changes, which
atmospheric pressure changes that you can feel it?can also cause migraines. But THAT is for another
Our state was like many states due to the waterday!
shortage. We just did not have rain for weeks andEven with the 5 inches of rain we got over the last
weeks. I did not have headaches during that timefew weeks, the water tables are still low, so I guess
either. We really needed rain because our reservoirswe can all expect to have more headaches. It also
were very low and the situation was gettingmeans that the cows will be lying around in the
desperate. Places that were supposed to hot and drypastures and mooing. Now that I have recognized
throughout our country were having floods, but not oursome of the symptoms of a rainy headache, I find it
place.interesting to look at other animal's behavior when the
Then all of a sudden, I started having headaches again.storms come. I have dogs and cats become restless
The weather was changing and the nights wereand move around, like they are trying to get
getting cool. I started feeling like my head was going tocomfortable. While I was lying around pampering my
pop when all of a sudden we got rain. About 5 incheshead, my kitty was also sleeping more than usual.
feel over a 3 day period and my head hurt the fullI have noticed that birds are not bothered at all by the
time. It was like my skull was a barometer and whenrain or storms. They continue to fly around in the rain.
the pressure started changing to indicate a storm wasThat is pretty curious, too, as you would think it would
coming, I could tell. I would know before the weatherbe hard to fly when their feathers get wet, but it
man would tell us that we were going to get rain.doesn't seem to bother them. I have even seen
My father used to say that when he was a boy hehummingbirds pick up the number of times they go to
could tell when it was going to rain because all thea feeder, both before a storm and during it. It is
cows in the fields would start mooing and just lie downinteresting to realize that when the barometer changes
in the pastures. It was always a funny image in myso many humans are affected by the storm that is
mind that they would be affected by a storm that wasapproaching. Do you think it would affect everyone the
approaching and just lie down and moo. During this lastsame when the rain turns to ice or snow? I know it
big rain storm, I did not think it was so funny when thatdoes for me, but it sure feels much better once the
was all I wanted to do, too.rain stops.
It is pretty amazing that many people carry their own