Can ceiling fans cause dehydration in your eyes leading to headaches or migrains

I'm not sure what you mean by "dehydration" in your eyes? Do you have chronic dry eyes? I suppose dry eyes can trigger a "sinus" headache. But, most sinus headaches are actually migraines.

 

I've never heard of dry eyes triggering a migraine, but there are so many strange triggers, they might.

 

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Gretchen

How strange that you should ask this because I sleep with a ceiling fan on and wake up every day mostly at dawn with the beginning of a migraine. I have found that natural tears help sometime..

I used to have this problem and went to the eye doctor...I did have chronic dry eyes. The ceiling fan aggravated the problem, and would cause headaches that were very similar to sinus headaches. He put me on restasis (spell?) it takes three months for it to be affective, but it worked wonders, and made all of the difference in the world. It might be worth a trip to your eye doctor to see if that is the problem for you, it is a simple tear test, and a matter of looking into your eyes. Good luck!

Allen,

 

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Teri