Why do migraines make you nauseous ?
In: Biology
Not answers, but interesting fact:
Some medicine used to treat migraines, such as triptans, work to increase the amount of serotonin in your brain. However, the side effect of increasing serotonin in your stomach is nausea and is consequently a side effect of triptans. Oppositely, some nausea meds, such as ondansetron (zofran), work to reduce serotonin for nausea, but result in the side effect of headaches.
So it is possible that serotonin issues are happening all around the body, with levels high and low in the wrong places, causing both a migraine and nausea?
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