Migraines End at Menopause
Yea! I am happy to be migraine free for almost six months now. I have been tracking my migraines for 10 years and during that time never went more than a couple of months without one. The migraines started at the same time that I developed other symptoms of perimenopause. That was a long drawn out 10 years of heavy periods and monthly migraines. I guess I can be thankful that the migraines didn’t start during puberty. After I figured out that my headaches were migraines and convinced my doctor, I was able to keep them under control by taking Imitrex at the onset of the headache. I kepet track of the dates of my migraines and periods and convinced my doctor that these were hormonal migraines. He said I should hope for an early menopause. Well, it wasn’t early, it was a late one but it does seem to have stopped the migraines.
There is one other possibility, I have been on the Sonoma Diet since January and the migraines stopped in February so it could be extrapolated that it was the diet that cured the migraines. But I think not. I ate rather healthy before this diet, including drinking wine and alcohol. The only big change in eating habits is the switch to near 100% whole grains.
I write this to give hope to some of you that suffer with migraines. I suggest charting them on a spreadsheet or calendar with your periods and see if there is a correlation. Hormonal migraines often come a couple of days before the period. If there is a correlation, there is a chance that like me, your migraines will eventually end with menopause.