Lunar Eclipse and Migraine Headache
We were fortunate out here in the Bay Area that this week’s series of showers halted long enough for the sky to clear up so we could view the total lunar eclipse last night. I saw it around 6:15 on my drive home, when the moon looked like it had a big bite taken out of it. Then around 7:40 I went outside and saw the moon was almost completely gone, with just a faint glow in the upper right to show it was there at all.
Very cool.
Unfortunately I wasn’t able to see any more of it because around that time my headache which had been lurking around since mid-afternoon turned into a full-blown migraine. Debbi took me upstairs and had me lie down on the bed, and I ended up falling asleep for some of the next two hours. When she came to bed around 10 I decided to turn in, too, and I got a full night’s sleep on top of the evening nap. Very frustrating since it meant I accomplished almost nothing that I’d hoped to do last night. I almost never get migraines, either. Much less than once a year.
At least the headache was completely gone this morning. That’s something.
Newton slept with me all evening while I was trying to shake off the headache. Debbi says the other three cats were mostly lying in the hallway outside the bedroom, and she had to step over them to come check on me. Very nice of them, guarding the door against intruders while I was sick!
Obviously the eclipse let out some evil spirits who got lodged in my head. Damn you, evil spirits!
I just Googled - migraine eclipse and found your note. I, too, suffered a migraine that evening and the next day as did my husband and a business associate.
LinkI was looking up “lunar eclipse and migraines”. I got a migraine that night as well, and two days later. I hadn’t had one in a while, hm…
LinkJust to be clear, I don’t really believe there’s a connection between the eclipse and my migraine (after all, correlation does not imply causation). But it amuses me to imagine otherwise.
LinkI’m told there’s no link between the two but most full moons I experience headache and migraine. I discovered the pattern after keeping a headache diary and when i checked retrospectively found that 2 out of 3 full moons i’d had migraine. People dismiss it out of hand but i’m sure there’s something to it.
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