Migraines and Perimenopause – HealthyWomen

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Perimenopause and Migraine Illness

Learn how perimenopause signs can change your migraine assaults 

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Perimenopause can have an effect on the way you expertise migraine illness

• You’ll have a migraine assault for the primary time 

• Your signs might worsen

• Your signs might get higher 

• There could be no change in your signs

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Hormonal upheaval

Throughout perimenopause, estrogen and progesterone go up and down. 

These hormonal adjustments can set off worse ache or extra frequent migraine assaults.  

For some girls, when hormone ranges even out throughout postmenopause, their migraine assaults occur much less typically or cease utterly. 

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Sleep issues

Perimenopause signs comparable to scorching flashes, waking up typically, nervousness or despair can have an effect on sleep high quality. 

Poor sleep can set off migraine assaults. 

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Menstrual migraine

Some girls expertise heavier and/or extra frequent durations than ordinary throughout perimenopause, which might set off extra assaults and extra extreme migraine signs. 

2 out of three girls with migraine illness expertise assaults throughout their durations.

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Take observe

Protecting observe of your perimenopause signs and the way they have an effect on your migraine assaults might help you and your healthcare supplier (HCP) give you a remedy plan that works for you. 

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Write down your perimenopause signs  

Monitor whether or not any of the next signs have an effect on how typically you get migraine assaults and the way dangerous they’re.

• Anxiousness

• Despair

• Issue concentrating

• Sizzling flashes

• Insomnia

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Choices for reduction

There are numerous remedy choices that may assist handle migraine illness throughout perimenopause:

• Oral drugs

• Injectable drugs 

• Nasal sprays 

• Magnesium

• Hormone remedy 

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Hormone remedy might assist

Hormone remedy:

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Contain your HCP 

Should you’re in perimenopause and your migraine signs are altering, speak to your HCP about what remedy choices would possibly assist. 

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