Rain Pain

Yesterday we got rain, and boy! Did we ever need it. The drought conditions here are past severe and extreme, up into the “Exceptional” range according to the map at:
http://www.drought.unl.edu/dm/monitor.html
We got one inch of rain yesterday, and that was wonderful, but we need much, much more to begin to make up for weeks of dry weather.

What was NOT wonderful was the pain levels. I was feeling pretty “achy-breaky” yesterday, and finally the light bulb came on. “Aha! It’s RAINING.” It had been so long since we’d had rain, I’d forgotten how much it hurts!

Yes, something about the change in weather does evil things to my body, causing the fibromyalgia pain to flare up, which in turn jacks up the thoracic neuralgia pain levels, and all that pain makes you really tired.

Researchers can’t say exactly why changing weather can cause an increase in pain levels, except to say it appears to have something to do with the change in atmospheric pressure. Whatever the cause, I feel it. Usually it hurts worse when rain is coming, but yesterday the pain was worse while it was raining and for a while afterwards, well into this morning. Who knows?

But we need rain! So I guess I’ll just have to pray for more rain pain.