Welcome to our club! You've found a great bunch of people from all over the country and world who have had ms for as short as just today up to several decades! I myself was diagnosed after failing out of college my junior year. I can trace symproms back to freshman year of hs. I was in the drum line and some days I just couldn't! So that's where my ride started, and at the age of 43, I'm still riding!

Welcome! I believe they are and did some looking around online awhile back. Migraines begin when glutamate in the brain makes the neurotransmitters too excited and they misfire. There is also excess glutamate at the site of demyelination in ms patients. Glutamate also plays a role in seizures and other neurological diseases. Maybe one day someone will figure it all out!

A lot of people on this board experience migraines. I used to get migraines with visual aura several times a week. It started suddenly and dont know why. Drugs didnt help. I've controlled mine by figuring out food sensitivities and not eating the offending foods. When I have eaten such foods, I don't get the migraine until 3 days later. Crazy!

@A MyMSTeam Member....learning to control what triggers symptoms is a learning curve. Only you wil know what you can or can not do or how much you can do.

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I get them especially if a brute light causes me to lose sight in my left eye. When the sight comes back the migraine starts. I'm no Doctor but I believe it is MS related since I never had a migraine in my life till I got this thing of ours. When I get them I put an ice pack on the back of my neck then the top of my head then my eyes. Seems to help me anyway. Good luck and welcome aboard. You are now part of the elite family. Hang in there and DON'T stress. Stress makes it worse. This is a great site. You will get more information here than your Doctor. Simply because everybody is different and in my opinion the doctors really don't know. You have to live this thing to know what it's like I say this because before I got it, I had no idea about anything concerning MS. I've learned a lot from this site.

I used to get migraines regularly, at its worst they would last 2 days, leave for one, back for another 2 days. It was terrible. Then I was diagnosed and got on Tecfidera. Since then, I have only had 4-5 total in the last year. Based on that alone, I'd say there can be a connection. I used to worry that the migraines were where my brain was being attacked, but after seeing my MRI's, I know that's not true. I hope you're able to get some relief as time goes on.