Migraine - Has anyone noticed a correlation between iron levels (ferritin) in blood and migraine frequency? Is this my imagination? : Women-care

Migraine overview

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A migraine is a headache that can purpose intense throbbing suffering or a pulsing sensation, typically on one facet of the head. It's often accompanied with the aid of nausea, vomiting, and excessive sensitivity to mild and sound. Migraine assaults can closing for hours to days, and the discomfort can be so excessive that it interferes with your each day activities. For some people, a warning symptom viewed as an air of secrecy takes location until now than or with the headache. An air of secrecy can consist of visible disturbances, such as flashes of mild or blind spots, or different disturbances, such as tingling on one thing of the face or in an arm or leg and concern speaking.

My experience-Has anyone noticed a correlation between iron levels (ferritin) in blood and migraine frequency? Is this my imagination?

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I went to the doctor for something else and the blood work came back showing low ferritin (but no anemia). I've been piling on the iron like crazy for the past two weeks (iron supplements, protein drinks with iron, every meal has something with iron) and I'm finding things that normally would have triggered a migraine, are doing so less frequently. When they do trigger, my medicine works much faster and better.

This study is a little confusing to read but it seems to indicate that it might be a thing, but the study is on women (I am a male): https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnut.2021.685564/

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Migraine Symptoms

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Migraines, which have an effect on children and teens as nicely as adults, can development via 4 stages: prodrome, aura, attack and post-drome. Not everyone who has migraines goes through all stages.

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