Gastric Migraine

Anyone who has ever had a migraine will say they do not occur in the head. The headache is usually the worst and most painful part of a migraine, but there's more. Most migraineurs (people who suffer from migraines) will talk about photosensitivity (sensitivity to light), phonosensitivity (sensitivity to sound), scent sensitivity, gastric pain, cramps and vomiting.

Sometimes, abdominal symptoms occur without other symptoms typical of migraine. When they do, one patient reported experiencing an abdominal migraine. A migraine is abdominal pain, usually varying from mild to medium in the abdomen. The pain is either along the midline or indefinite period and is often accompanied by abdominal pain, spasm-like cramps, bloating, vomiting and loss of appetite.

Since the abdominal pain may be caused by a variety of conditions, other causes must be excluded before the diagnosis can be made. In a classic migraine abdominal, no cause of stomach pain can be identified. Migraine need to let their doctors know their migraines when they experience unspecified abdominal pain while the doctor knows abdominal migraine may be a possibility.

Abdominal migraines are most common in children. Children who have abdominal migraine often grow up to be migraineurs. While abdominal migraine is not uncommon in adults, is rare. Like most other types of migraine, it is also more common among women than among men.

Although the exact cause of abdominal migraine is unknown, it is highly likely to be related to serotonin deficiency. Serotonin deficiency has been associated in several studies of migraine, and 90% of serotonin in the body is produced in the gastric system. serotonin deficiency causes waves of the nerve chain reaction in the brain at the onset of a migraine and a similar process may be in force in the abdomen.