Do low pressure systems/thunderstorms make you jittery

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I've just moved from California to Colorado - and we have these monster storms blowing through for over a week. Totally forgot but until the weather breaks ie the pressure lifts it drives me nuts! I'm jittery, headachy and anxious (generally not my character, at least not this bad), depressed/teary/generally out of sorts and struggling with social interaction. I was hoping for a quiet day but ended up spending at least four hours continuously on the phone/skype. Then a good friend phoned and asked how I was and I burst into tears! I find interaction hard, but not that hard.

I've found comments online about autistic children being emotionally high strung in low-pressure weather, but the only posts on here are about people loving storms. The funny thing is, I love heavy rain, it's just this low-pressure system sitting here for an extended period of time definitely has affected me. Has anyone else gone through this as an adult?

I'm in Colorado too. I love the storms, but I have noticed that my ears tend to plug up right before the thunderstorm hits. That sounds stupid.

Doesn't sound stupid at all

I think that we're just hypersensitive to the pressure (or lack of it)...knowing that it's happening (by checking the weather sites) helps me to realize WHY I might be feeling like I do. I still feel bad, but at least I don't blame myself and I know that it will eventually pass.

*snort* *grin* to AceofKnaves - good point BornThisWay - if I've got an aim this year it is to pull back, saying no (at least once!), scale down expectations - other people's expectations of me and my expectations of myself.

I normally don't mind thunderstorms, unless there is another natural event going on with them, like baseball sized hail, or the threat of a tornado.

I am an amateur storm chaser.... I find that they do the opposite for me, the sound of the lightning/thunder and the rain is really relaxing. I used to get pressure related headaches but generally it was when a high pressure system was moving in rather than a low. I have not felt those effects in a couple years though.

I am always a complete wreak during thunderstorms. I am a little bit of a wreak when there is low pressure, (for example, if there is going to be a storm later in the day or something) but I at least don't panic like I do when there is thunder.

I am absolutely terrified if thunder storms. I react to them like a scared 4 year old, except that I'm almost 19! I get scared. I cover my ears and I always want to curl up in a ball under a blanket or table. I sometimes start hyperventilating and go into a full blown panic attack.

During low pressure weather of any kind, I get cranky and I just feel "off." It's kind of funny how I finally made the connection. There would be days that I would be cranky, restless, and anxious for no apparent reason. On one of those types of days I noticed that my pet goats were also nervous and I knew that they were nervous because the weather was strange.

I'm kind of in the same place. I don't remember feeling like this since I was a child - and I've always loved storms when they break, and the susurration of the rain aside, I wonder if that's the lifting of the pressure. I've been really sick with thyroid failure for the last wow, well nearly seven years. Just coming out of it, and some of my senses are responding by getting up and really wacking me over the head, as they come back on line, so to speak!

No, I have no such feeling at all. I find rain very relaxing and electrical storms exciting (as long as they're not too close).

I love storms, especially thunderstorms, so I would be right at home in Colorado. However, I shall have to make do with the current stormy weather here in Central Europe

To tell you the truth, I have 2 different types of thunderstorms and heavy rainfall selected on my white noise generator on both my iphone and iPad. It cuts down on the tinnitus, and is the only way I get to sleep most nights.

I just hate lighting storm, because of the noise. The absolute worst is waking up in the middle of the night, and its thunder. Its just nigh impossible for me to fall back to sleep.

Yes, there is one where I live tonight and I have had problems all day. I have had high anxiety and my OCD has been really bad. I can't sleep and I have a bad headache.