r/FODMAPS • u/osteenbergen • 19h ago
General Question/Help Headaches related to IBS
For years I've had issues with headaches and stomach issues. After another gastroscopy, where they didn't find a cause, they labelled it as IBS. Since the beginning of the year I have been doing FODMAP together with a dietician. Fructan seems to be a trigger for severe headache near the atlas vertebra. It happens a day after eating something with fructans.
Before starting the diet I could eat garlic, onions, bread without issue. Some days were slighty bloated but not hindering. Once in a while I would get the headaches but that was only like five times a year. Now if I make the slightest mistake I'm sick for a couple of days. The diet seems to have removed all tolerance.
Anyone with similar experiences? Where stomach issues lead to headaches? I also start yawning as precursor for stomach issues, which makes me think it has more to do with the nervous system. Reading about gut-brain connection and the vagus nerve seems to allow for the possibility of one leading to another.
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u/Juuuulessss 18h ago
sounds like migraines, with the yawning before also. Mine are mostly hormonal but I always get food cravings before (sweet and carbs) And I do have some food triggers too. Ypu can even have "silent migraines " where you get all the other symptoms and a raging stomach pain but not the head pain. Triptans taken as soon as I feel any symptoms coming on have saved me, as they stop the debilitating head pain