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The weather here has been unseasonably mild since late fall. Granted, things never get all that cold here in my part of Georgia, but we almost always have a handful of icy or snowy days in the midst of winter.
So far we’ve had a week or so here and there when the temperatures have dipped into the 20s (that’s FREEZING by our Southern standards), but for the most part the temperatures have been even warmer than usual.
The poor plants and flowers are confused beyond belief. Flowering, crawling ground cover we planted last spring didn’t actually blossom until after Christmas. Outside our house, daffodils are peeking out of the earth all sunny and yellow even though it’s not nearly time for them to show. Rather than being dry and washed-out brown, the grass is nearly spring-green and bright. Last night I was taking the garbage out at the bookshop and I swear to you I heard crickets. Crickets in January.
The outside plants and animals aren’t the only confused ones. My brain hasn’t been very good at regulating itself with all these changes. Top that off with a long, rainy drive to and from warm and humid New Orleans last week and you have one migraine brain that is pretty hard to keep happy. Some of my friends who are very sensitive to barometric pressure have been having a hard time of it too. One of my booksellers will have a stuffy head one day, a runny nose the next, a bad headache by the weekend.
Have you noticed if this unseasonably warm “winter” has played with your migraine brain? How have you been coping?
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This year the unseasonable weather changes have been very hard on me. Also food triggers. With the two together I have been spending most of the winter in bed, or exhausted from the previous migraine. I usually get my migraines before the storms hit, but when they come one after the other with not much time in-between, I get them every day, and then I just have to wait them out because I cannot take a triptan more than once a week if I want it to keep working. I don’t have many medical options left for my really severe migraines, and I don’t know what is going to set them off, so I have to be very careful with the meds that are still working. That means tolerating a lot of pain on a daily basis, and spending a lot of time with ice on my head, and the whole thing exhausts me. Dealing with chronic pain, day in day out, is mostly exhausting. Tomorrow I am going on a hike, and I hope I make it on time. It starts early, is a short hike, but I don’t do well early in the morning. I am determined to try and do this so I hope it goes well. No storms around so barring any other problems I should be OK. I never know however. At 2am, something can hit – and that is so hard to explain to people last minute.
I’ve been noticing the change in temperatures just in the past few months has been so up and down, let alone the past years of barometric pressure going higher than before and the lowest low than EVER before, at least in the last 5-10 years. Prime example, when I was pregnant with my son four years ago, we thought that like my mother, being pregnant might bring me some relief from my migraines, as it did her, she had two daughters and both her pregnancies her migraines were gone – only to return after the birth. Me, I had migraines all through out the pregnancy AND nothing changed before and after. It was a constant bad migraines for me. Our thoughts were that 30 years ago the weather changes were never this severe therefore, that is why I suffered and she didn’t. Because, we are almost the same predictable migraines during these types of weather changes. I hope that one of two things happens, the weather changes settledown or research finds a way to control the way our brain reacts to it. One can only hope.