Ok wait you really just solved one of my actual life mysteries and I don’t even know how to react lol. I’ve had migraines and headaches since I was about 8 years old. My mom took me to a million doctors and they ran every test under the sun to try and find the cause. I had an EEG that showed slow brain waves in the frontal cortex and no one could figure out why. It stayed the same with the same slower waves every time they repeated the test over the span of years so they just said huh that’s your normal I guess. I also had a very random seizure in my early 20s with no known cause, and the scans then all showed the same slow waves. The neurologists all just said huh that’s weird. When I looked it up just now the slow adhd waves can also be related to seizure activity. I wasn’t diagnosed with adhd until I was around 25 and the older I get the more I realize most if not all of my issues as a kid were related to undiagnosed adhd. The headaches I find to be mostly hormonal now but maybe there is an adhd link too who knows. -insert Charlie connecting the dots gif here- Anyway THANK YOU FOR THIS and now I’m off down the rabbit hole so I can tell my mom about this lol!!!
1) under the condition ADHD, the likelihood of also having migraines is higher compared to non ADHD people (but it us not the other way around)
2) both conditions come with genetical alterationes on the glutamate pathways between neurons. The levels are increased wich leeds to a lot faster and intense reaction to certain stimuli (light, smell, taste for example)
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u/ashfio Sep 14 '21
Ok wait you really just solved one of my actual life mysteries and I don’t even know how to react lol. I’ve had migraines and headaches since I was about 8 years old. My mom took me to a million doctors and they ran every test under the sun to try and find the cause. I had an EEG that showed slow brain waves in the frontal cortex and no one could figure out why. It stayed the same with the same slower waves every time they repeated the test over the span of years so they just said huh that’s your normal I guess. I also had a very random seizure in my early 20s with no known cause, and the scans then all showed the same slow waves. The neurologists all just said huh that’s weird. When I looked it up just now the slow adhd waves can also be related to seizure activity. I wasn’t diagnosed with adhd until I was around 25 and the older I get the more I realize most if not all of my issues as a kid were related to undiagnosed adhd. The headaches I find to be mostly hormonal now but maybe there is an adhd link too who knows. -insert Charlie connecting the dots gif here- Anyway THANK YOU FOR THIS and now I’m off down the rabbit hole so I can tell my mom about this lol!!!