Mine gets worse. My neuro says that symptoms usually worsen because of the change of barometric pressure. He didn't go-to deep into the conversation with me but he simply answered my question I guess. As to how it exactly happens I'm not sure. I've become good at predicting weather changes lol. Today it's raining and will be for the next 3 days .I have my meds handy.

Hey there,
See our database an old member put together, many members added to it, it helps so you understand your symptoms are real

http://www.dailystrength.org/c/Psuedotumor-Cerebri/forum/19004595-symptom-data-base

yes, low barometric pressure leads to higher ICP. this is a very typical complaint from IIH patients, anecdotally. same thing happens going to altitude. funny thing though, I know several "migraine" patients who have the same triggers for their headaches. people who never had spinal taps, were just diagnosed clinically, and who get better with Topamax.....

Thanks for the replies! That data spreadsheet was very informational! Thanks Mary 1973!!

You're welcome, thank Seasprite for creating it, i wonder wth Seasprite is, anyone seen her here lately?

Hey Pip, I took away the IH symptoms by changing my lifestyle, i stopped eating from the grocery stores middle aisles. No canned, boxed, no SUGAR, did you know the sugar at the grocery store isnt even real can sugar, get real food and eat, eat alot of it. These days im still doing the same thing. I dont eat anything I dont make homemade, lots of veggies and fruit, avacados everyday, if I eat carbs i only eat a very small gold potatoe, I cleaned my life and my house (so to speak), I threw out all plastic, no plastic wrap, containers, baggies, i cook and store everything in glass, i threw away my microwave, no aluminum foil, got rid of the store crap, pure water all day, everyday. I went seriously rogue on IH. Its gone now, all IH symptoms but I still have other health issues that arent being addressed nor truly managed by the idiot doctors here in st louis, the thing that caused the IH and everything else in the 1st place. For instance, the advice I recieved from our wonderful member Sophiasmom concerning sleep disordered breathing, i have had 3 sleep studies, SOOOO many events while im sleeping, they wont treat me, let alone admit I have sleep apnea that I have myclonic seizures in my sleep, in April this hear I had my first grand mal seizure in my SLEEP because the idiots wont treat me.
So, if you haven't had a quality sleep study yet, take the time to do so, im a long time member, and its taken all this time to show what the long term effects of untreated sleep disordered breathing does to a person. Ignore my typos if any, on my tiny tablet.

In similar fashion as Mary, I changed plenty in my house too. Though I still use a microwave in a pinch as well as plastic baggies on occasion, I got rid of nearly all of my stainless steel cookware. I use a glass teapot for boiling water to make pour over coffee using a ceramic (high end) cone and brown paper filters, and it goes into my made in England porcelain teapot. Peruvian organic coffee works for me without issue. I cook/bake in Le Creuset or Emile Henry (both made in France) products or Lodge plain cast iron.. Crazy expensive change, I know, but I don't taste metal any longer. I try to use organic whenever possible and cook from scratch avoiding soy as it tears up my tummy.

Antiquerose, can you explain more about the stainless steel? I hadn't heard this was a health concern. Thanks!

And yes, a lot of us do seem to notice a correlation between weather and headache, for me being overheated is bad for my head, I haven't noticed it as much with rain. Totally agree with the comments about nutritional and lifestyle change! :)

Hi RN4408, regarding stainless steel, I first really noticed an issue when my coffee began tasting awful. I'd clean out the bottom of the stainless coffee carafe regularly, but it still tasted icky. Thus, I changed the way I made coffee as I described earlier. Much, much better taste and no metallic taste or aftertaste.

I knew that 18/10 stainless steel was the best of the stainless to use for cooking, and when I bought several new Cuisinart pieces, the noted 18/10 mark on the bottom was absent, so I called the company to see if they changed the basic set items. No, they are 18/10 I was told. That turned out to be incorrect information, and when I discussed this issue with them again recently about a stainless lasagna pan, they said again that it was 18/10. I said then why isn't it marked on the bottom as such? Plus, I told them that the description on Amazon stated that the lasagna pan was 18/10, but with pan in hand, there was no such mark on the bottom. I was told to hold on.... she returns to tell me that they are actually not 18/10 and that info has also (I noticed within 2 days) now been removed from the Amazon site.

Anyway, having noted varying degrees of metallic tastes, I wanted to be rid of such, thus I changed the way I cooked.

I did find this article for you:
http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/jf402400v

Stainless is comprised of various metals, and perhaps I am more sensitive than most, but no more of that cookware for me.

Thanks for the info!