Had to write email to "comments" asking them to consider adding Barometric Pressure Migraines to their list. These are real migraines, caused by weather, and can be one of the hardest of the migraines to prevent. Treatment is, unfortunately, strong pain meds, blood pressure meds, and in my case anti-vertigo meds. My neurologist of 18 years, who recently passed away and broke my heart, had been trying hard to get migraines listed, identified as a brain disorder, that can be so debilitating that some people cannot hold jobs etc. SSI needs to decide with each different case, whether a person can get SSI for this disorder. They vary to the extreme, some people get one or less migraines a month, then others, like me, have consistantly suffered from 2-3 a month, with the attack typically lasting 3 days. And I am not talking about rebound migraines either, I can easily identify those and take 3 advil for them and that works just fine. Weather: rain, storms, heat waves, what the barometric pressure gauge is, when it dips down below 30, I am on my way to hell for a couple of days. Many people suffer from this type of migraine. In Canada they have a toll free number for people to call to get the pressue gauge, storm predictions etc. This is important if you don't want to have to constantly cancel meetings or appointments. I know 2 days in advance that one of my monsters is on the way. What I don't always know until it hits is how bad it will be this time around. During the worst ones, I medicate but then also put myself to sleep with trazadone, because I simply cannot tolerate the symptoms, and sometimes, even with the pain meds, the electrical storm going on in my head, it cannot be quelled enough by the medication. Due to wonderful and compassionate professors, I managed to get through years of college, even though missing a lot of classes, I always stayed ahead with my work. If the teacher deemed that he/she was not comfortable having me take the final due to being absent so many times, I was always offered to present a relevant paper to write (25pgs) for the grade. Being a good writer, this was a generous offer from them and my stress would deflate immediately. Anyway, this is the first time today that I have been able to sit up long enough to write my input on this topic .I have been in bed for about 3 days now due to a monster migraine that blew in with the storm. Thanks for listening. If there are others out there who suffer from this type of migraine, would you please post? or email me and tell me how you deal with your barometric type migraine, okay?