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14 years 5 months ago #14552 by aurehsalla
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Just out of interest, does anyone else get pressure headaches? ie the weather-related ones that come when it's been a warm possibly humid day and there's a storm coming, and it usually clears up once it's rained. How do you deal with them?

Have had a gorgeous sunny day here in the UK, then about 4pm full blown thunderstorm and a deluge of rain - it's stopped but the headache won't go and paracetamol isn't doing anything! Alcohol, ibopruofen and aspirin are naturally off the cards......
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14 years 5 months ago #14557 by Sandi
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The weather affects me a lot too. I have constant sinus problems, but if it's cold or rainy, it's constant pressure. I take Advil Congestion Relief, use a steroid nasal spray and use a nasal rinse every night, plus my usual array of daily anti-inflammatories. I can't think of anything else to do and those don't help much.
14 years 5 months ago - 14 years 5 months ago #14584 by
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Oddly enough, liberal use of plain saline solution nose spray usually works for me to keep 'weather pressure' from triggering a migraine. My sinuses have been messed-up since 1974.
The few times saline spray doesn't work, I end up with a migraine....then Imitrex knocks that out.
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14 years 5 months ago #14589 by lili
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I get headaches when the weather changes too. I hadn't really associated them with sinus issues, but it's possible that I just hadn't noticed. I didn't notice the connection with the weather until one of my coworkers pointed out that it was always raining when I was complaining of a headache.

It's kind of too bad. I can avoid food triggers and wine, but there's not much I can do about the weather.

How do you use the saline, WeirdJack? Do you try to take it before the weather changes, or just use it all the time?

Lily
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14 years 5 months ago #14590 by Sandi
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I've tried saline - didn't work. It's actually what I use in my nightly rinse too. The next day I'm stuffy again.

The weather affects my muscles and joints too. I should move to Arizona.
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14 years 5 months ago #14591 by milly
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May I suggest Australia Sandi, great weather.
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14 years 5 months ago #14593 by Sandi
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Sounds good to me!
14 years 5 months ago #14615 by
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I just liberally spray saline solution up each nostril......often.
Doesn't work for everyone, works fair for me though.

I did try Australia! Went there to live on my own when I was 17.
I also tried Mexico in the Baja desert for 4 years....and a few other countries as well.
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