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Wow! These guys are really making progress now. They've finally figured out that IBD patients often have headaches, migraines, and other symptoms besides just a belly ache. And to think that these guys earn big bucks to prove stuff like this.
New research shows that patients with serious aches in the belly are more prone to headaches than healthy individuals.
I'm expecting some research team to undertake a study to determine whether or not IBD patients have more diarrhea than healthy individuals, any day now.
Tex
It is suspected that some of the hardest material known to science can be found in the skulls of GI specialists who insist that diet has nothing to do with the treatment of microscopic colitis.
Interesting. I haven't had a migraine since I went GF/DF. Typically I get at least one a week and sometimes 2 or 3 which I used to blame on a stressful job and single parenthood. Since retiring 10 years ago my life has been relatively stress free, yet I've continued to get them. It's been an unexpected benefit of my recent dietary changes to lose them, hopefully for good!
Leslie
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Diagnosed with Lymphocytic Colitis on December 5, 2012
True friendship is like sound health ... the value is seldom appreciated until it is lost ~ Charles Caleb Colton
I had some humdingers while I was still reacting, but like you, I haven't had a single one since my diet changes took effect. Quite a few of us have noticed the same improvement. Many members find that skin problems improve or completely resolve after they change their diet, and a few have even noticed that seemingly-unrelated problems such as asthma or voice hoarseness have faded away in response to avoiding gluten.
And yet doctors try to treat migraines with drugs, rather than diet changes. Sadly, we had a member years ago who had a truly debilitating migraine problem, and yet we were unable to convince her to remove gluten from her diet, because she didn't want to give up gluten and dairy, so she was ready to believe her GI doc when he told her that "diet has nothing to do with MC", and her neurologist insisted that drugs were the only way to treat her migraines. The problem was, the treatments didn't work.
Tex
It is suspected that some of the hardest material known to science can be found in the skulls of GI specialists who insist that diet has nothing to do with the treatment of microscopic colitis.
My 17 year old nephew is plagued with migraines and I keep saying its what he's eating. My migraines cleared after a decade of hell. The shots and pills never helped but caused more problems. Too bad I wasn't smart enough then to look for the answers myself.
Yes, and I'm one of those people who quit having migraines right off the bat, once I got off of gluten.
The only things since that time that will trigger one is things like MSG, sulfites, and other preservatives and taste enhancers or other
excitotoxins that I might accidentally ingest. I think, for one thing, that is because our blood brain barriers are a little
more permeable than other people's are (brains are, after all, one end of our embryological guts in the womb, and we
all know that our guts have increased permeability).
Just wanted to warn you about these in case you happen to eat too much of something...like a ham someone might send you
for the holidays. I probably wouldn't notice a problem if I didn't keep going back to the frig for more over a period of days.
There MIGHT be other situations that could cause you a rare problem, especially in combination with other triggers. Rarely
during a storm, the barometric pressure will jump around so fast that my head can't adapt to the pressure quick enough, so
whatever compensatory methods my blood vessels use up there to equilize the pressure aren't fast enough, so that will
trigger one in me. Usually there's some other things going on at the same time...like abrupt changes in sleep patterns or
uneven estradiol regulation (I wear a patch) or both. All in all, I'd say that I'm virtually free of the migraines I have so few
of them, and I'm very careful about processed meats. If i don't have access to the label...like when I have to eat out, I just eat
a very small portion. Shouldn't eat any of those preservatives, but sometimes that's all that doesn't have my other allergens.
You do what you have to do.
Good luck...migraines are torture...especially when you have them like untreated MC'ers. Luce
Luce wrote:I think, for one thing, that is because our blood brain barriers are a little
more permeable than other people's are (brains are, after all, one end of our embryological guts in the womb, and we
all know that our guts have increased permeability).
Excellent observation. Obviously, it's not just our intestines that have to be permeable in order to create a state of leaky gut syndrome, but the blood vessels have to be hyperpermeable, as well. Otherwise the peptides that escape the lumen of the intestine could not pass through the vascular wall into the lumen of the blood vessels, so that they could be transported to other locations in the body. And hyperpermeability is a two-way street, so anything that can enter through the vascular wall can also exit the same way (which is how gluten defeats the blood/brain barrier to cause neurological issues).
So as a result of gluten and/or other food sensitivities, we not only have a leaky gut, but a leaky circulatory system as well. Thanks for making that observation.
Tex
It is suspected that some of the hardest material known to science can be found in the skulls of GI specialists who insist that diet has nothing to do with the treatment of microscopic colitis.
Wow! These guys are really making progress now. They've finally figured out that IBD patients often have headaches, migraines, and other symptoms besides just a belly ache. And to think that these guys earn big bucks to prove stuff like this. 
