carrps, your sister is on to something. Barometric pressures are a recognized trigger for migraine. This was announced a year or two ago, and millions of migraineurs said, “No shit, Sherlock” in response to the news.
And caffeine helps me as well. If I take my abortive medication in the morning with a cup of coffee, I can often get to work in a couple of hours (usually working from home; I don’t feel great but the migraine pain is gone). If the migraine starts later in the day, a regular Coca-Cola helps. Guinastasia – weather has been doing me in this spring. Between the barometric pressure changes and the pollen (inflammation in my sinuses seems to be a secondary trigger), it’s ridiculous. Summer is usually ok. The dead of winter is usually ok. Spring sucks.
My pain management doc pee tests everyone in their medication program. They have to to keep the feds off their backs; law enforcement hasn’t gotten the memo from the CDC.
I apologize that my comments above were misunderstood - one of the reasons I hate posting from my tablet is that composition is so slow I tend to write way too short, leaving ambiguity and sometimes unintentional offense an opening.
All I meant was that there are medical issues with very real, measurable aspects that can be ameliorated or cured by very indirect methods; that I don’t see hypnosis and feedback as complete woo when tried as a cure for something with nebulous, often stress-induced causes like migraine.
I used a very simple example of anger-induced blood pressure spikes (which are quite real) being ameliorated by calming actions - which got taken as a number of dismissive things I didn’t intend. Sorry, especially to the OP.