For others, though, a thunderstorm may be a brutal trigger for a headache.
Let’s read about the science behind how a thunderstorm and other weather-related changes may precipitate head pain.
For example, one study inCephalalgiaexamined over 1200 participants with migraines.
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Weather was identified as the fourth most frequent migraine trigger, occurring in approximately 50 percent of the participants.
Many of us claim storms and its elements were the trigger and some experts agree.
This creates the elements of a thunderstorm, like wind and rain.
In addition, with a thunderstorm comes lightning.
Half of the participants reported low barometric pressure as a migraine trigger.
Nevertheless, listen to your gut.
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