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Atmospheric Pressure and Pain

As our atmospheric pressure drops due to a cold front with thunderstorms pushing down from Canada, the bone and joint pain caused by Systemic Mastocytosis has increased to an excruciating level last night. "Hyper-sensitivity" is the term of the day today.  Just some very light fingertip pressure is enough to cause sharp pains shooting through my body causing me to flinch and respond vocally.  The pain... all through my entire body... was at its worst last night at bedtime. That being said, I could have been more sensitive to the pain because I was exhausted. All I know is that when we went to bed last night, I felt as though I had something very seriously wrong with all my organs, all my bones... I felt as though I had just been hit by a train and was thrown aside like a rag doll... badly bruised... smashed like a tomato thrown against the pavement. All through the night, I had dreams of being in pain. My dreams took me to some places in my past where these injuries first