I used to get hangovers like everyone else. Now, if I drink enough to get a headache, it is always a migraine. A couple of drinks won't do it, and sometimes even help when I'm having a migraine. (They say drink is bad, but it's a vasodilator, right?)

Many people who get migraines have all sorts of food triggers. Anything fermented is likely to be on the list of no-nos. The reason I asked about other forms of alcohol doing the same thing is that I believe much of the other stuff left after fermentation would be removed in distilled products. (Am I wrong? Just guessing.)

I was on a couple different types of drug therapy for prevention of migraines. It was a doctor who tipped me off about feverfew, and it works as well, if not better for preventing migraines, as Elavil or Prozac, with no side effects. I had every side effect in the book, plus a few extras, with those drugs. I had to do a bit of research in order to convince my neurologist it was effective. Feverfew doesn't work for everyone or for all types of migraines. For prevention, it may take up to several months to become effective. That's why I don't think taking it for abortive treatment (making an existing headache go away) of migraines would work very well.

If it were me, I'd probably try switching to another type of booze, or as cyder_drinker said, a different brand of cider, or not drinking (oh my!).