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chroniclymie
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anybody have a distinct change in body,attitude, pain, symptoms in a change of barometric pressure. this change in pressure is usually lower than 30.00 and is usually falling.
many equate the symptoms to rain but i think the changes are not due to rain but lowering of the barometric pressure( atmospheric pressure ) on the body.
this change seems to cause my body to feel all the symptoms of lyme all at once, even if the day before was clear and i feel ok.
anybody else have these problems????

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yes i do....and it used to be a lot worse a few months ago.

i live on the east coast and most of this week is forcasted with rain.

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I do - change in barometric pressure is a gigantic trigger for all of my symptoms, especially 'seizures'. But almost any other symptoms too - most doctors think I'm crazy though I was told that orthostatic hypotension or something related to it also is affected by barometric pressure changes.
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Aha, finally someone else with this!!! The lower the barometric pressure, the lousier I feel. I live in the east too, and today I thought I was damn near dying! [Mad]
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IMO it's not the high or low but the rapid change that does it....I feel worst after a cold front where the pressure goes high real quickly....
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I often wonder If it's the low pressure or the Radar thats ramped up with each storm.
Never before in history has so mech Radar been used during storms.
Russia has a safe limit for atmosphere
microwaves, The US. is 100 times over this limit from what I've read.
Al

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cantgiveupyet
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interesting AL,

Im praying for sun.......ive been in bed most of the week due to the weather.

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big time !!!! hot, cloudy, rainy, humid, = cruddy...I travel a good bit with my job and dry air is best for me...heavy humid summer air in the east coast....the worst..
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yes

I can actually tell when it is going to rain or storm. I have people in my family who actually call me up to ask "hey, is it going to rain".

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I think Mother Nature is helping:

"Dissolved oxygen levels increase as temperature decreases, but barometric pressure effects the levels also (Eaton et al, 1995).

The pressure essentially "pushes" oxygen into the water.

Temperatures that fluctuate and varying pressures effect the levels of oxygen in water. Our purpose was test Jackson Park lagoon over a period of 4 weeks for dissolved oxygen, temperature, and barometric pressure."

http://depts.alverno.edu/nsmt/archive/durquin.htm

And...as you likely already know...we have a LOT of water in our bodies.

"Slide 17

Factors affecting the growth of bacteria

pH
temperature
oxygen
moisture
hydrostatic and barometric pressure
osmotic pressure
nutrition

http://gemini.oscs.montana.edu/~cbond/mb201/mb201l06.pdf

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i think charlie has a point. teh rapid change in barometric pressure, and the persons adjustment to that rapid change.

my two examples,the second one "iffy' as to the B.pressure, as it could also have been candidiasis.

one late november-december, on a bus, moving fast through the lincoln tunnel. the bus was well into the tunnel when i felt strange in teh head, and in the ears. this was so long ago, that i can't be more precise.
vague sense wooziness? vague/slight vertiginousness? can't quite describe it. also other bodily sensations that i can't recall in any detail.

second example: in car, moving fast through holland tunnel, i was stopped, more or less on teh exit ramp by a policman as i emerged from the tunnel. the guy thought i was drinking.
i was definitely brain-fogged, and spacey,not well-rested from sleep because of lyme,and maybe other tbds, but i don't drink. at the time, i attributed my driving to a bad case of candidiasis, and that, maybe that did it.

once, an experienced scuba diver with lyme came on board wondering if lyme had anything to do with the sensations he experienced some time after a emerging from a recreational dive.
i don't recall the depths he went to,but, at the time of the post, it seemed to be beyond 28ft., the depth beyond which the body is supposed to start to undergo significant adjustments to increased pressure.

those of us who fly a lot might be knowledgeable about b.pressure changes and tbds.

i mention diving and flying, because to the extent they are, these activities are the "extremes" of depths and heights, relative to ground, and so involve bodily adjustments to pressure changes.

hbot people with lyme,etc., and hbot sites can comment on sensations felt after undergoing different pressures.

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guyton's text,"medical physiology," has a chapter on scuba diving.
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Yup...and to counter the "bends"...hyperbaric chambers.

;-)

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Go here to understand about airplane travel or scuba diving - the impact on the body:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decompression_sickness

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clearing teh eustachian tubes, and/or other "spaces"/channels, and potential spaces:

years ago i found a scubadiving site, wherein a physician used a tablet of papain to clear either the eustachian tubes(?), and/or other
"channels"(i forgot my anatomy)of fluid blockage(s)(?), by inserting the tablet between the upper gum and the cheek. the papain is supposed to move through to some ear structures, and/or spaces and to clear debris, thereby counteracting some kind(s) of effects incurred after a dive.

even though i don't dive, i tried this, for 2-4 days(best i recall from 1999).
it did do something, but i couldn't interpret the response, or interpreted it negatively, and so stopped, i believe, due to a sting in my ear that may as well have been attributed to the effects of tbds.
no abx,such as a macrolide for example, in my system for months. macrolides have effects on the inner ears.

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Dr.V.S has a patient story on her site about diving and the herx and why.. Can't remember all of the particulars at the moment.
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quote:
Originally posted by Marnie:
Go here to understand about airplane travel or scuba diving - the impact on the body:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decompression_sickness

Thank you for that link and info Marnie.

I didn't understand what happened to me on that last flight I had in a non-pressurized plane. Scared the living **** out of me.

The first 2 flights I just became very achy and then sleepy.

But the third I hurt all over, then started to get drowsy and was shivering uncontrollably. I couldn't keep my eyes open and I was seeing black spots and felt like I was blacking out.

Then I started to have tremors on the left side of my body. I cried continuously. I don't ever want to do that again. (It would have been nice if someone thought to give me oxygen.)

These were supposed to be low altitude flights. But it sure sounds like that's what happened.


I have very little problem on commercial flights.

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