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I remember once reading about a patient that had a ME/CFS-like form of migraine, who responded to medication for migraine.

Genetic correlation A recent preprint found a genetic correlation of rg=0.45 between ME/CFS (DecodeME) and a USA migraine cohort. This figure is similar to the genetic correlation value I found when testing correlation of DecodeME with other migraine cohorts (UK BioBank and FinnGen). Insights...

I thought it'd be good to have a public thread for general discussion about how ME/CFS and migraines may be related. We have a members only thread for sharing experiences as well. Mainly, I want to link relevant discussions happening on various threads, so they don't eventually get buried.

Migraines are not ME related in my case. My migraines disappeared after menopause. It got aura a few times but the headache didn't develop which was a surprise! Hormonal shifts across life stages can make migraines better—or worse—for women. From menstruation to menopause, estrogen plays a...

...peak seems in line with the first ME/CFS peak. The second peak is actually a little earlier in this cohort. Prevalence of Acute and Chronic Migraine Among Patients with Von Willebrand Disease (2021, Blood, Abstract only) From the same study. Might ME/CFS be more prevalent among those with...

Oh, actually, this is comparing incidence peaks in ME/CFS to prevalence peaks in migraine. I think prevalence would be expected to peak later, though I'm not sure how much later. So maybe the ages of the migraine peaks are closer to ME/CFS than it seems from this.

...cohort, and in the men-only cohort: brain and uterus. Here is the plot for men: This is interesting, because males do not have uteruses. So they suggest that it may instead be indicating importance in migraine of pathways which are similar to those in the uterus, but found elsewhere in the...

They did a lot of comparing their findings to a previous migraine GWAS: New and sex-specific migraine susceptibility loci identified from a multiethnic genome-wide meta-analysis (2021, Communications Biology) I took a look at that paper, and interestingly, in the MAGMA analysis in that study...

Some other studies to potentially look at. I just quickly grabbed quotes about bimodal distributions, and haven't read the papers: Trends in migraine incidence among women of childbearing age from 1990 to 2019 and the prediction for 2030: an analysis of national data in China (2023, J Headache...

...study: StudyConditionFirst peak (SD)Second peak (SD) Bakken 2024ME/CFS10-1930-39 McGrath 2026ME/CFS16 (4.3)36.6 (10.5) Victor 2010Migraine (Women)25 (8.6)50 (15.8) Victor 2010Migraine (Men)18.7 (7.4)47.6 (16.8) The peaks seem to come later for migraine. Edit: Realized this is...

Speculating that hormonal changes might cause second peak in men. Previous studies had not seen this bimodal effect. They speculate that it is because other studies used 5 year age groups instead of 1 year, and because they used populations that didn't span as large of a range in ages as this...

This study was found by Murph when discussing whether migraine and ME/CFS may be related: I posted so we could examine whether the bimodal distribution looks like it might be showing the same thing as in two ME/CFS papers: Two age peaks in the incidence of chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic...

Migraine prevalence by age and sex in the United States: A life-span study Abstract The present study assessed age- and sex-specific patterns of migraine prevalence in a US population of 40,892 men, women, and children who participated in the 2003 National Health Interview Survey. Gaussian...

...just to post it: ME/CFS 26.6 C2 (healthy) 25.8 Hypertension 27.8 Depression 25.9 Asthma 26.1 IBS 25.2 Hay fever 25.6 Hypothyroidism 26.2 Migraine 25.2 Problem with Obesity is that people don't often report they have it, some don't see it as a medical condition but as a temporary impact on...

...doubt on) the bimodal age peaks. But it could be that alternative diagnoses are more popular in late-20s early-30s, burnout depression, migraine, ibs, Functional Neurological Disorder, anxiety, Somatic Psychobabble disorder, Peristent psychobbable syndrome etc. In the sense that even small...