Anyone here sensitive to weather changes?

[roman]

Hi all,

my wife Helena is asking if any of you with official or unofficial HFI diagnosis are also sensitive to weather changes. She is a barometer. She gets headaches when there is a change of pressure, or perhaps it is oxygen level she is sensitive to. Her barometric headaches are different from the typical intense pain that we ascribe to fructose.

[colormist]

I just moved to WV and am unaccustomed to the daily altitude changes as I move from the top of one hill to the bottom of another. My ears pop like crazy. My husband, however, notices no pressure changes and doesn't understand why I'm complaining when we drive up the hill to go to the grocery store.

I also have allergies really bad right around now. Itchy eyes, watery eyes, sinus pressure, sneezing, etc. It can go on for a month or longer if I don't take medication.

I have no idea if these things are related to HFI.

[roman]

Hi colormist, thanks for responding. Helena's ears pop all the time, whenever we drive up and down California hills (not mountains, just hills). Mine do not do that. She also gets headaches (not like those we associate with fructose, however) whenever there is a passing front or before it rains. She used to have allergies when we lived in northern NM from pine trees, or so we thought. We have plenty of those here, plus CA wildflowers, but she does not get allergies anymore. I don't know what to think about that.

[esmee]

When I lived in San Diego County, I used to get terrible migraine headaches when the Santa Ana winds blew in from the East (to the West) bringing lots of positive ions (there has been research on this and all kinds of trouble occurs during these types of winds in many different places in the world where they exist), but I don't think that is specific to HFI as I new others there with the same experience. When I would start to feel a migraine coming on, I would light a candle and go outside to confirm the direction of the wind. This way I knew it was not something I ate.

[roman]

Esmee, that is funny, the part about the candle. Yes, Santa Ana winds are something special. Even Raymond Chandler writes about them in his short story Red Wind, how it turns everybody crazy.