Allergies & Headaches - Allergies Message Board

N2golf · 03-18-2003, 02:31 PM

I just wanted to know, if anyone suffers with headaches everytime the weather changes. I have allergies/sinus problems and have had them for many years. It just seems since I have gotten older that the headaches come more often when the weather flucuates. Can anyone relate?

Marie55 · 03-18-2003, 02:52 PM

Weather change bothers most everything including sinuses. Aches and pains seem to increase at this time.

KJ39 · 03-21-2003, 11:02 PM

I have allergies all seasons, but worst in spring and fall. I get headaches especially when it is windy. I take a sinus headache tablet and that helps a little.

KJ

zaqwerty · 03-25-2003, 10:10 PM

N2golf - I can certainly relate. You might be suffering from Migraines in addition to your allergies and sinus problems. There are different types of Migraine headaches and they can be weather triggered - brought on by marked changes in barometric pressure, especially going from high pressure to low pressure and, can increase in frequency and severity as you get older. The good news is that around age 45 is the peak and most sufferers see a decline in frequncy and severity thereafter. For the first ten years that I got migraines I didn't have a clue that's what they were, even with a family history, because mine were not the classic symptoms that I *thought* belonged to migraines. They weren't debilitating, though I definately knew I was a walking barameter. I coined them "sweet headaches" because I got an unusual sweet taste in my mouth when they came on and as the hours went by my head felt presed upon and heavy... but no pounding pain. The pain and frequency has increased over the years and I now have more trigors than just the weather. Interestingly, I have discovered by trial and error, that taking Claritin increases the frequency - I get about three times as many migraines when taking Claritin.

Recent studies (June 2002) published in a Canadian medical journal suggest that intervention at the earliest warning is one of the best treatment strategies for migraines. I have tried a lot of suplements and drugs and found that good ol' Bayor *Buffered* Aspirin is the best, with the least side effects - but it must be taken within a few minutes of feeling the first symptoms. The longer (measured in minutes, not hours) you wait to intervene the less likely you will be able to stop a migraine in its tracks. Take care and try to get your hands on some literature - a pharmacist may have something more 'readable' than published studies.

N2golf · 03-26-2003, 07:39 AM

Zaq,

Thanks for your input, but, I am curious about what you said about the Claritin....they give you MORE headaches? The thing is, weather I eat something, take a med., weather, etc...and I get a headache, I never really know what to attribute it to. I guess if I were to just to do one thing a day which is impossible, then I could narrow it and link it to the cause of my headaches. When seeing a Neurologist, he said that there was no such thing as a "sinus headache"...That threw me off! I'm not sure if it's migrains because I don't have the classic migrain symptoms, so...I can only relate it to weather because as far as a food allergy goes, people eat so many different things in a day, that if you have a delayed reaction as far as a headache goes, how on earth is someone to know if they have a food allergy unless they have a major reaction such as hives or something to that nature. Allergies....what they still don't know!