abdominal migraine

[Florapaige]

Hi, I’ve suffered from migraine for many years and tried many treatments.

I’m now on 8 mg candesartan daily which has greatly reduced my migraines. However a lot of the time my stomach is uncomfortable and I feel sick particularly when I’m walking

I think it may be that I’m feeling the migraine in my stomach instead of my head. this is worse in a way as previously I could take sumatriptan and the migraine would just go although I know I was taking far too much. Nothing seems to help with the nausea.

Has anyone experienced this and any suggestions please?

[troy04]

That's very unfortunate. It is part of the migraine though. Please talk to your doctor to see if you can increase the dose to 16mg which is the appropriate dose and clinical trial for migraine was done with 16mg, not 8mg Candesartan.

Did you try giving up all dairy and meat in your diet? Also, instead of anti sickness tablets, you may try first homeopathy for sickness. Below item works generally well for sickness -

helios.co.uk/en/shop/ipecac...

Try 6X granule and you can take 4/5 granules at a time every hour until sickness is reduced or gone. You can consult Helios as well if you want.

If this doesn't work, your doctor can suggest medicines for sickness, as you know.

[Florapaige in reply to troy04]

thank you. I am vegan so don’t have meat or dairy. I’ll ask the doctor if I can increase my dose but I do have low blood pressure so I’ll have to see if I can tolerate it

[Cat00]

Have you tried taking a triptan to see if it resolves the nausea? If it goes you might be a able to tell whether it is the migraine or the Candesartan making you feel sick. I was never able to tolerate Candesartan as it dropped my blood sugar too low.

[Florapaige in reply to Cat00]

that’s a good idea, I’ll give that a try

[Onthemove1971]

Yes, my son has stomach migraines. But they sound very different. His start the same time always when he wakes up. Or they wake him and they give him vommiting, sweating and horriable pain in his stomach. They then turn into hours of pain. After the episode he has to sleep because he is exhausted. Let me know if you have any questions.

He takes Cyproheptaten daily and we use a cocktail when the episode starts.

[elantiles]

I was taking sumatriptan for migraines which never totally got rid of them, then I'd feelreally sick. One day I was out and my daughter gave me a Rizamelt, and the migraine went, and I never got the sick feeling, so I got a prescription at the Dr instead of Sumpatriptan.

[Florapaige in reply to elantiles]

Thank you