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Anecdotes are not data, however I used to have one or more severe migraine headaches weekly. Debilitating migraines. I suffered pretty high blood pressure (whic
by llm_nerd 11mo ago
Anecdotes are not data, however I used to have one or more severe migraine headaches weekly. Debilitating migraines. I suffered pretty high blood pressure (which has a very direct relationship with cerebrospinal fluid pressure, which is why I mention this), but aside from that am very healthy and physically fit, exercise regularly, and so on.
I started medication to treat the BP -- telmisartan and amlodipine -- and my BP dropped from 150+/120+ to 115/80. The migraines completely disappeared. I still infrequently get the visual aura that would traditionally precede a migraine, but nothing follows. I haven't had a migraine in the years I've had my BP under control.
- awakeasleep 11mo agoInteresting to hear as someone who gets the aura thing, but never the migraine pain, and has good blood pressure
- znd 11mo agoCandesartan is actually one of the most used medications for migraine prophylaxis, also for people with normal BP. Your doc might have chosen the med for that reason. Though it's widely used for BP even in people without migraines.
- RossBencina 11mo agoAgree. Candesartan was one of the first line of migraine treatments given to me. Propranalol was the other one. Neither worked in my case.
- Bloating 11mo agoI've had the auras at least since a teenager, but not headaches. Thought is was completely normal, 'til a neurologist said No and that I has having vestibular migraines. Blood pressure was always on the low side of normal. Family history of migraines and seizures, which some hypothesize have the same root causes. Would be interesting to see GLP-1 tests on epilepsy.