People whose blood sugars are not stable and have Type 1 diabetes can
experience severe headaches after an episode of low blood glucose according to a
researcher from Dartmouth. Dr. Jacome, MD, from Dartmouth, Hitchcock Medical
Center in Lebanon, New Hampshire, found that hypoglycemic episodes could be the
cause of migraines.
He studied the clinical history of a patient with type 1 diabetes. It was
observed that the patient, who had suffered from severe bouts of low blood
glucose for 40 years, got a migraine after each episode once his blood-glucose
levels were stabilized. Both the low blood glucose and the headache improved
after the man was given valproic acid, a medicine to control seizures.
After a bout of low blood glucose, migraines, “may occur in patients with
unstable diabetes as a rebound phenomenon,” Dr. Janocme states. Headache Oct.
2001
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