Diane House

Hi, I feel your pain. I have increased hot flashes when the pressure drops here in Colorado. Anxiety and depression also with the hot flashes. I know there is a relationship between pressure and increased hot flashes because I experience it. Just watched a tube video on research between living at high altitude and depression and suicide rates. All over the world, the suicide rate is noticeably higher at high elevation where the barametric pressure is lower. Less depression at sea level. Hoping to move from Colorado to Florida. I always feel way better when I visit Florida or other sea level places.

Hi,
I live in Colorado where the pressure varies all the time it seems. I am very sensitive to those changes and experience extreme muscle aches, sometimes head pressure where my eyes feel pressurized behind them and the worst symptom of all for me is depression. I want to leave Colorado and move to Florida where there is less days per year of barometric variation but it’s hard to convince my husband that this is real and it it’s making my life very challenging. I keep looking for research to back up the relationship between how I feel and that it is a real thing. Anyone out there know of any doctors or studies that will validate what I am saying? As of now, I think that people just look at me like I’m crazy when I describe this to them. I always feel way better at sea level. Fort Collins, Colorado is about a mile above sea level so I think that also has an impact on my symptoms.