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I've had them since I was very young too. When I was a child they were accompanied by really high fevers, up to 105F and would last for two to three days, where

by burnte 7y ago

I've had them since I was very young too. When I was a child they were accompanied by really high fevers, up to 105F and would last for two to three days, where I'd just mostly sleep in misery (they'd make me incredibly tired and sleepy). The doctors would check for meningitis with spinal taps, they'd check for encephalopathy, tumors, anything they could think of, nothing ever came back positive. I was put on inderal for a while, but that didn't really do anything. I'd have one every year or so, then since my teens I've only had one every few years. The past few years though I'm back to the yearly migraine, but no fever and they only last a day. I'm not entirely convinced they're not just a side effect of our enhanced cognition, something like a problematic feedback loop, maybe even something related to epilepsy. The bigger the brain, the more than can go wrong.

FreeFull 7y ago
Given the fever, it could also be something related to the immune system.
- GlenTheMachine 7y ago
  Yeah, fever is a very unusual symptom to be related to “regular” migraines. Something else was going on there probably. But who knows? Maybe unusual electrical activity in the brain can cause increased core temp?
  - FreeFull 7y ago
    Core temperature is controlled by the hypothalamus, which is part of the brain, so that is certainly possible too.
- burnte 7y ago
  Yep, that was an idea, but aside from the temp, nothing abnormal was detected. It terrified the docs the first couple of times it happened, they were afraid I'd die. After I didn't, they were less scared, but still concerned. No answers ever came. The fevers came with the migraines for about 6-7 years. Only once did it get to that 105 range, probably the third time, never again, and each time it was less. The theory was that my body didn't know what was happening and the immune response of a fever was triggered by mistake.

by burnte 7y ago

FreeFull 7y ago

Given the fever, it could also be something related to the immune system.

GlenTheMachine 7y ago
Yeah, fever is a very unusual symptom to be related to “regular” migraines. Something else was going on there probably. But who knows? Maybe unusual electrical activity in the brain can cause increased core temp?
- FreeFull 7y ago
  Core temperature is controlled by the hypothalamus, which is part of the brain, so that is certainly possible too.
burnte 7y ago
Yep, that was an idea, but aside from the temp, nothing abnormal was detected. It terrified the docs the first couple of times it happened, they were afraid I'd die. After I didn't, they were less scared, but still concerned. No answers ever came. The fevers came with the migraines for about 6-7 years. Only once did it get to that 105 range, probably the third time, never again, and each time it was less. The theory was that my body didn't know what was happening and the immune response of a fever was triggered by mistake.