Do you think AS and migraine headache are related?

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I'm wondering if there's a connection between the sensory overload issue and the onset of migraine headaches. I actually kind of believe there is (flickering light....intense sound....being easily stressed out).

Are you an Aspie who suffers from migraines? Feel free to comment on this anyway.

Oh, yeah!

I get crippling headaches from being around what other people consider 'small' amounts of fragrances - I mean nauseating, sick-for-hours (or days) migraines.

It was interesting to find out that a lot of Aspies complain about this. Tony Attwood, in his writings and in interviews, has mentioned sensory overloads caused by lights, sound, smells, etc., as being 'excruciating' to Aspies. He may have said that around 60% of Aspies are affected, but I'd have to look that number up.

There is a study that shows that giftedness or high intellectual potential is associated with migraines. There may be a hypersenstivity that involves the neurotransmitter glutamate. Also, of course, stress, lack of sleep, dietary sensitivities and caffeine in particular are major migraine triggers.

My father gets severe migraines but he's as NT as you can get. I get migraines and I've got AS. So, it sounds like a genetic thing in my case.

If I take a trip somewhere I always get a migraine and nausea my first day there. I think it's a combination of overstress and information overload. It's happened since I was a little kid and still happens today. Now when I take a trip somewhere I just expect to spend the first day taking it easy.

I have had optical migraines but without the headache. I had my first attack in the classroom at age 13, and it scared the s**t out of me, I thought I was going blind. The second attack happened three years ago, and after that I used to have them on and off for one and a half years. Then suddenly, they stopped (I hope for good).

When I got my first EEGs the neurologist said that later in life I would have migraines. He was right. I think it's because of the physical differences in the brain that would make one prone to both autism spectrum disorders and migraines.

-classic autism,with diagnosed severe migraines since ten years of age,am find the red and white tylex/tylenol co codamol helps,but get migraines daily-theyve got worse since teenage age,they're not helped by wearing ear defenders [which has a vice effect] but dont have a choice as there's nothing more suitable.

Have you tried Amerge? It's worked wonders for me.

I used to get a migraine every Monday

I have constant "pressure" in my forehead region. Probably a tension headache from so much non-stop internal pondering. Doesn't hurt much, but it sucks.

Amerge? no,thanks for that Mage,will pass it on to staff to speak to doctor about as they think am addicted to pain killers which is an insult because the doctor has actually told them to let am have the painkillers as and when needed.
also have proprananol for both migraine and severe rage/meltdown,though it does less work on the migraine.

I got BAD headaches at one point. The reason was 6 things:

1. Sensitivity.
2. Failure to eat.
3. Obsessions causing overwork.
4. Stress
5. vitamin B deficiency(from the above)
6. magnesium deficiency from the above.

So it WAS related to, but nt fully because of AS.

i get migraines.

i'd say the only relation with AS is that you're maybe more sensitive to the environment which can definitely make you more prone to getting migraines IF you have migraines to begin with. they can be chemically related (foods ect), menstrually related (for the gals) or environmentally related... which is where AS wouldn't help out too much.

Relatively rare headache but I do get them. I get a host of other migraine symptoms, though, from pain on other parts of my body to lights and spots (with all of that crazy shimmer/jaggy stuff). It was many years before a doc suggested that migraine might explain it all.

Oliver Sachs had a nice migraine article in the New York Times about a month or so ago.

I used to suffer from really bad headaches every day but when I saw a new dentist they said I was grinding my teeth in my sleep. They gave me a tooth gaurd and my headaches vannished. They have since done re-alineing where they pollish bits of your teeth off till they meet evenly and now I dont even need the gaurd. I was so pleased as I had been having no luck with the doctor who had dismissed the headaches as stress.