Weather patterns and Migraines?

[LWM1970]

I have had migraines since I was a teen but for the last 2 years I have had "seizure like" auras with extreme neausea and vertigo. There was some debate about what was causing these symptoms. After extensive testing I have now been told it's non-epileptic and all migraine. We are now trying to find a daily preventative program. My Dr has suggested that our weather patterns might not be the best for my condition and that I might want to consider moving. I have not been able to narrow down very many triggers but I do know that weather shifts can trigger me. This has been very debilitating. I can have 3 auras a day and 3 full on migraines a week. The current preventatives are helping, they have knocked me down to 3 auras a week some with headache. If this is the best I can get here then I can't live like this. Does anyone have experience or ideas with determining good  weather patterns for migraine sufferers. Perhaps specific places. Please help.

[Eddie1994]

Weather is just one of many triggers.  You folks are correctly defining your triggers and I always thought the same components were involved and they are to a degree.  

There is one component that medical science has not considered but may have a considerable effect on migraines.  Science currently believes it is a cortical spreading depression within the central nervous system.  If you think about it, we live because of electrical activity within our bodies.  Therefore, outside electrical forces have the ability to upset the delicate electrical activity inside our bodies.  Metorology has never studied the electrical activity that weather creates.  Take for instance that a westerly wind moving perpendicular to a magnetic field (i.e. the earth's magnetic field) creates electrical activity.  The fields can range from small to large electrical currents.  The point is that this phonomena has never been studied or measured except by NASA.  

[LWM1970]

Thanks, I have vacationed in FL. My grandparents lived near Ocala and last year we stayed a week near Orlando. I felt really good when we were in Orlando but I wasn't sure if it was just because I was on vacation. My husband is an electrician and the job market doesn't look very good for that in FL.
We have the same types of shifts here. 9 degrees when you wake up to 50 in the day. Some winter days we are -10 and get up to 30. COLD and extreme shifts in humidity and wind. So I'm wonder is it temp, humidity, wind or fronts that affect us so?

[Ellemma]

Hi there, I too have chronic migraines, went more than a year w full blown migraine almost everyday. I have about 10-15 monthly now thank to Botox. I live in Texas, where it is completely normal for the temp to drop 60 degrees in a day, and the weather is changing drastically everyday. I have been researching a good location to move to, and my top choice for stability of weather, fair cost of living and good economy is the Tampa fla area. Yes they have short thunderstorms everyday after lunch, but these storms seem to have no effect on my head, whereas in Texas I get an aura 4 hrs in front of the storm. The main draw is the lack of seasons, rarely below 60 in winter, rarely above 90 in summer. And yes, I lived just outside Tampa for around 3 years, experienced maybe 4 real migraines the whole time. I have visited the lower gulf coast of FLA every year for 10 yrs, don't recall ever having a migraine while there. I plan on moving when my oldest son graduates from high school next year, probably to the Bradenton area.