I am a type 1 diabetic and I also have migraines. I have been on preventive medicine for my migraines for 15 years. I decided to go off of the medicine a month ago and my blood sugars have dropped dramatically. I know average 70-120 most days. My question is: I have gained about 10 pounds in less than 2 weeks. I asked my doctor about this and he said it was water weight and it would go away once my body became use to these numbers. I am not eating differently and I am working out a little more. Has anyone experienced this?
Only vaguely related: Before I was diagnosed in Junior high with T1, I had horrible migraines for several years, most afternoons.
Strangely enough, after I became a T1, the migraines have stopped. Sure, I still occasionally have headaches, but not those migraines.
Related? I don’t know. You say you went off your migraine medication (which you don’t name! We could help you better if you named it) - are your migraines gone?
And if your bg was running real high (above 180) you were spilling a lot of sugar in urine, I bet. And this messed up your electrolyte balance and dehydrated you. Now that your bg’s are doing so much better, it may indeed take a while for your hydration/electrolyte balance to normalize.
I still have headaches everyday, but I am getting better with dealing with the pain. I was on Topomax for 5 years and the last 3 I was on Zonigran(Zonismide?). My doctor said something similar to being dehydrated and it taking some time to normalize. Thanks!
Oh man…I can relate…have migraines almost every day…especially in extreme weather (such as what we’re having now…steamy, and smoggy)…but there are many other triggers! I take triptans…Imitrex. I’m a skinny type 2.
I myself wonder if my migraines, from before I was T1, were in fact just my autoimmune system running wild and ripping up my pancreas, with the migraine as a side effect? And after all my beta cells were gone things settled down? Just random, completely unscientific thoughts.
But yep, I had the migraines every afternoon after school. Or at the same time on weekends. Pretty awful. I didn’t connect their disappearance with the onset of my diabetes until years later.
I do know, though, that when I’m running on low…I’m bound to get the start of one…so I have to be careful not to be exposed to other migraine triggers…or I’m dead meat!!!
Had very bad migraines as a teen - last one was at least ten years before I developed T1. My Mom developed grand mal seizures as an adult and we were told the two were genetically related but if you got the migraine you never developed the seizures. Congrats on that perfect range! I agree with Tim (as usual) that your previous higher BG artificially kept you in a dehydrated state. Also if you are working out more and don’t have the BG issue you are probably gaining muscle mass. Good luck with the migraine program…had a very wierd conversation with a school nurse years ago who told me to bite into a raw onion at the first sign of tunnel vision to lessen the impact of the migraine. Never tested it - onion breath as a teen would have been worse than the migraine.