Migraine

[vespa]

Its been many years since I suffered Migraine, 20+ and today I suffered it I recognised the symptoms, a sense of dislocation, then partial vision and a slight numbness of my lower jaw, a small flashing light on left eye, I checked my blood sugar and it was 3.9, I was stunned and immediately had an egg and tomato sandwich, coffee with sugar and a banana to raise my blood sugar, I am guessing this is a side effect of diabetes. but no insulin I must have had a too long a gap between my breakfast 8.30am and the onset of the attack which is about 1pm.

 

[vespa]

it seems to have got as bit better, i can see a bit more, I am still feeling the side effect of the attack

 

[foxglove]

Glad you are feeling a lot better Vespa.. that sounded really awful for you.
Take care..

 

[vespa]

Thanks for your kind words.

From what I understand this is fairly common among Diabetics.

 

[vespa]

Thinking about it it probably what I imagine a hypo might be like. the sense of disassociation and the blurred vision and blood sugar reading of 3.9, unpleasant.

 

[smidge]

Hi Vespa!

I suffer from migraines fairly frequently. I've had them for many years - long before I was diabetic so I don't think they're connected at all to my diabetes. Just one of those things. I take Imigran for them and it does really work to deaden the pain and settle the nausea. I find that the onset of migraine usually sends my BG low - not the other way around i.e. it is the migraine that send me low rather than low numbers causing my migraines. As I'm on insulin, I reduce my background when I have a migraine.

You seemed to take rather a lot of carb for a 3.9 BG - sandwich, banana and sugar in your tea - I would expect that to send your BG very very high. Did you test after to see what your numbers were like?

Hope you're feeling better.
Smidge

 

[vespa]

Hi Smidge,
The 3.9 was before I had my sandwich, banana etc. interesting that you mentioned it makes your BG drop.

 

[FurryCub]

I've had migraines all my life, used to get stomach migraines as a baby too. But they appear to have nothing to do with my bg. I only got diagnosed with diabetes in Nov 2012, so there doesn't appear to have been any causal link.
I did develop cluster headaches, a much worse type of headache, in may 2013, but again bg didn't seem affected.
I'm now on injections for migraine and cluster headaches. I carry them round with me as I really don't want a cluster when I'm out.

One thing I do note though is that any change to routine can bring on a headache. So getting up late or skipping a meal. I would think it's probably because you skipped a meal, or left too long between, that caused the migraine and the low bg.