Re:From blood sugar to brain relief: GLP-1 therapy slashes m...
by awakeasleep on Wednesday November 26, 2025 @12:59PM
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Interesting to hear as someone who gets the aura thing, but never the migraine pain, and has good blood pressure
Re:From blood sugar to brain relief: GLP-1 therapy slashes m...
by znd on Wednesday November 26, 2025 @01:07PM
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Candesartan 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.
Re:From blood sugar to brain relief: GLP-1 therapy slashes m...
by RossBencina on Wednesday November 26, 2025 @01:11PM
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Agree. Candesartan was one of the first line of migraine treatments given to me. Propranalol was the other one. Neither worked in my case.
Re:From blood sugar to brain relief: GLP-1 therapy slashes m...
by Bloating on Wednesday November 26, 2025 @01:14PM
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I'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.
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.