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The vast majority of migraines are not related to high blood pressure. (Classic migraines involve visual disturbance, then intense head pain, sometimes with other weird neurological symptoms. Visual migraines involve the visual disturbance and some of the peripheral neurological symptoms, without the throbbing pain. They also miss the nausea and vomiting that go with "common migraine." I've been exploring this for almost 30 years, and the terminology is the only part I'm happy to share.) Most people with migraines do not have high blood pressure, but blood pressure medications are sometimes useful for preventing frequent migraines. They seem to act as surge protectors, interfering with the intense local contraction and expansion of blood vessels that happens when a migraine begins. There's also a drop in serotonin at the start of a migraine, and anti-depressants are also sometimes useful for migraine prevention. I'm telling you this because I think you have an abstract interest in almost everything, not because I expect you to need migraine-preventing medication. It's only worth dealing with the risks and side effects for people who have migraines more than twice a week.

Then again, you might actually have high blood pressure. Some people do. (One of my sweeties does. And does NOT want reminders from me about medication and so forth, despite not always remembering. Being healthy enough to not think about staying healthy for a weekend is a fragile luxury, and I don't want to break it for someone I love.) If this is a warning sign for you, I don't want to seem dismissive of it.