Kyle Legate wrote:
> Mark & Steven Bornfeld wrote:
>
>>
>> I used to get headaches after rides, esp. in the early season when
>> my fitness was poor. I don't know that they strictly qualified as
>> migraines, though they were usually one-sided and it felt like my
>> eyeball was gonna roll outta my head.
>> I concluded as you did, that it was a drop in blood sugar.
>>
> I've had those too. They always happen after a long, hard ride that
> stresses the fitness. I considered it was sugar, electrolyte and water
> imbalance. They don't qualify as migraines.
supposedly there are two types of migraines; classic and common. (pasted
snip following):
Migraines without Auras (Common Migraine)
Definition of Migraine Without Auras. To be defined as a migraine
without aura, a patient should have at least five attacks that have the
following characteristics:
A. Each untreated, or unsuccessfully treated, attack must last four to
73 hours.
B. It must have at least two of the following four qualities:
* Pain on one side of the head.
* Pulsing or throbbing pain.
* The pain must be severe enough to impair or prevent daily activities.
* The pain must be intensified by exertion, such as walking up stairs.
C. During a headache at least one of the following symptoms also be present:
* Nausea, vomiting or both.
* Sensitivity to light and noise.
Definition of Migraines with Auras. To be defined as a migraine with
aura, the patients must have at least two attacks that have three out of
four of the following events.
* One or more fully reversible aura symptom suggests to the
physician that they originate in the cerebral cortex or brain stem.
* At least one aura symptom develops gradually over more than four
minutes or two or more aura symptoms occur in succession.
* No single aura symptom lasts more than an hour. (There may be
successive aura symptoms, however, that extend that time, but each one
should not last more than 60 minutes.)
* The headache itself may begin before, at the same time, or at an
interval of no more than an hour after the hour.
more here:
http://www.umm.edu/patiented/articles/what_headache_000097_1.htm
common migraine heather