Blood Pressure; Low as a possible prodrome or trigger?
I have seen mention of high blood pressure being associated with severe headaches. I am wondering if *low* blood pressure (110/60 or less) might preceed or accompany the onset of migraines for some people. If people are willing to collect personal data to see if there might be a correlation, it might be worthwhile to aggregate it. I am going to try this myself, although I recently have not been having as many migraine episodes as I used to. The way I will do this is to take a couple of BP readings at about the time I find it necessary to take an oral abortive like Imitrex, and compare that to baseline values after the migraine has been aborted by the meds and at other times when I have been free of migraines for at least 12 hours. For ease of recording, use a monitor that displays time and preferably also date, snap a photo with a phone camera, and record the data later.
Has anyone seen any published studies relating BP and migraines?
Hi
, thanks for reaching out. I hope some of our community members, especially those with low blood pressure, can share any knowledge or experience they have on this. While I don't personally have an experience or information, I was doing a very rough google search and there does seem to be some mention of low blood pressure possibly being linked to migraine, although in what way, I'm not sure. Here is a link to the information I found, https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20158621/.
If you're comfortable, please let us know if you end up keeping track of this and what you discover about your personal experience with this.
Wishing you a gentle day. -- Warmly, Christine (Team Member)
That's interesting, TY, and it's the sort of thing that I was wondering about:
"In this normotensive migrainous population, we observed that diastolic hypotension before or very early, during, and after migraine attack was the most significant result (5.1%). Although it was not statistically significant, the total number of hypotensive values was remarkable. "I have nothing significant to add, just that it looks like there are lots of people in the community mentioning they have a history of either low blood pressure and/or POTS. -Melissa, team member
