The worst I have ever felt was a few years back when one of the hurricanes moved off shore and was stuck over Ohio for 2 days. Most of the time we just get the tail end of hurricanes and they are pretty well played out, but this one still had 100 mph winds and it was awful. The barometer was so low. I think I wept for hours that one day.

Showers are painful for me, but I make myself take a long hot shower on storm days. I stay in bed a lot. I have a bedwarmer that you lay on, and I use that. Pain meds don't normally help me, but I use them on stormy days... and they take the edge off. I also do meditation I learned in the book/CD Breakthrough Pain by Shinzen Young, although I have never felt I was very good at it, it does help.

When I was still working, bad weather days were torture. Now, they are still bad, but at least I don't have to go out most of the time, and I can take pain meds, extra baclofen (I am allowed to), use all my various pain gels, creams etc.... and try to keep a couple extra movies or something good on the DVR to keep my mind occupied.

April, May, June are the worst time for me because of the tail ends of hurricanes and the tornado season. For those of you who live where you get the full force of hurricanes, I do not know how you do it.