Forum for fellow migraine sufferers

Are there any B vitamins besides Riboflavin that are or could be implicated in migraines or in headaches similar to migraines? I ran out of my Balanced B-100 vitamins and just like a year or so ago when I ran out of prenatal vitamins, I’ve had almost 10 days straight of bouncing between full blown migraines and what I call “ghost of migraines past” (this tight low grade, not really quite a migraine feeling but any little thing - too much caffeine, too little caffeine, nitrates, nitrates, sulfites, weather, dehydration, too much or too little sleep, hormonal shifts, etc. - will set off a particularly NASTY migraine during a “ghost of migraines past”).

So today, while out buying groceries, knowing they’re a good way to get easily absorbed B Vitamins I bought one of the energy drinks that contains a good selection of B’s. Sure enough, within 2 hours of drinking the drink my ghost of migraines past was gone. It’ll be back tomorrow or the next day for sure by three days (if I don’t manage to get more B-100’s).

I know it’s not Riboflavin. All Riboflavin did - even at 400mg - was leave me more sensitive to light and really itchy…and it never helped the migraines at all (not even after putting up with the side effects for about 2 months). So are there other B’s that might be involved? If it matters, I know that at least one of my meds (metformin ER) can mess with B-12…

My current total med list is metformin ER (diabetes & PCOS), zonegran (seizures and we’d hoped it’d help with migraines), lexapro (depression and also for migraines - seems to help a little), ibuprofen (unexplained hip pain, docs are trying to blame on the depression - and yes, I know I have to take it consistently and carefully or it can cause problems), and allegra. Plus frova when I have a migraine.

I’ll be mentioning this to my neurologist when I see her on Thursday, but I was wondering if anyone had any ideas before then.

Oh, and about my eyes… My eyes, per the eye doc, are healthy. Very nearsighted (uncorrected vision has topped 20/200) and for some reason my eyes are very dry (he even asked about autoimmune disorders and Sjogren’s Syndrome), but they’re not why I’m having the vision problems. He suspects the vision problems are either med related or undiagnosed ocular migraines. Except for the light sensitive part. Apparently a lot of people who get migraines are light sensitive even when we don’t have an active migraine and I’m just one of them. I’m now supposed to wear glasses with total UV and dark tint (yeah, like I can afford that since I don’t have coverage to buy the glasses). Any ideas how to get affordable glasses to these specs without insurance? Almost forgot, and apparently my eye strain is because DSHS (who made my last glasses) got the prescription slightly weak and the axis off and nobody caught it. That explains a lot (and the older glasses which I brought with me were even worse - they’d been made for someone
with an astigmatism, but the prescription was otherwise right). So he figures getting new - but GOOD - glasses should help at least the headaches (if not the migraines too) as long as I do something for sunglasses in the process.