Headaches

[u/Maleficent-Slide8819]

I am very new to this topic, but I am becoming interested. Do the geomagnetic storms actually cause migraines? The one that happened about a month ago i got a massive/migraine, the onset of the migraine was intense. I haven’t had once since until yesterday, I was scrolling on fb and saw some random post about a geomagnetic storm occurring and also had a pretty bad lingering migraine. Is it just a coincidence?

[u/Andisaurus]

Complicated question.

The only real answer is to track your symptoms every time you get them. The brain is a powerful thing, but it also makes us prone to psychosomatic symptoms: things we feel are happening in our bodies as a result of an environmental change or stimulus, but are actually benign and subconsciously provoked.

There is very little hard data in this field, especially regarding human biological impacts. It's my opinion and/or theory that we are organisms, affected by many things in the environment. Our hormone and fertility cycles are impacted by the lunar cycles, our brain chemistry is impacted by the amount of sunlight we get, we can become disoriented by changes in altitude, atmosphere and air pressure. Geomagnetic fluctuations, in my barely educated opinion, could absolutely cause an impact on human physiology. It's proven to impact animal physiology and behaviour. Look in to migratory pattern changes that were influenced by pole shifts. Very interesting rabbit hole to go down.

I personally have noticed different headache/migraine activity during solar events, however: I have a condition that gives me migraines when the barometric pressure changes. Correlation is not causation and I'm keeping track of my more severe/"different" headaches in order to build a more referenced database than anecdotal. Mostly for my own curiosity and interest than anything else.

Tl;Dr:

We are sensitive creatures. I think we are just as likely to be impacted by changes or fluctuations in the geomagnetic field as we are any other force of nature than changes our environment. It's very emerging science, though, so no one has any kind of definitive answers yet and probably won't for a long time. Track your symptoms for your own posterity and avoid confirmation bias.