Migraines and Diabetes… Are they related?
June 23, 2008 by Kendra James, RN
Filed under Diseases & Conditions
In the recent years since my hysterectomy, about 4 to be exact, I have been suffering from migraines. No fun at all!!! I only get 4 or 5 a year- but oh boy when I get them I get them. They have been coming more frequent and harsher recently.
So what was my next question with all of these migraines… is diabetes and migraines related? It turns out that indeed low blood sugars and migraines can be related. Low BS can be a trigger for headaches. Also diabetes is a endocrinology related disease and thus hormones could be a part of it. And we all know that hormones definitely trigger migraines.
He studied the clinical history of a patient with type 1 diabetes. It was observed that the patient, who had suffered from severe bouts of low blood glucose for 40 years, got a migraine after each episode once his blood-glucose levels were stabilized. Both the low blood glucose and the headache improved after the man was given valproic acid, a medicine to control seizures.After a bout of low blood glucose, migraines, “may occur in patients with unstable diabetes as a rebound phenomenon,” Dr. Janocme states.
Has anyone had this experience or do any of you suffer from migraines? Interesting to know…
I have chronic migraines and was just diagnosed with diabetes in January. We’re not yet sure how or if the two are influencing each other, but the hope is that getting my diabetes under control will help reduce the frequency of my migraine attacks.