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Perimenopause and migraine disease
Discover how symptoms of perimenopause can change your migraine attacks
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Perimenopause can influence how to experience migraine disease
Maybe you have a migraine attack for the first time
Your symptoms can get worse
Your symptoms can get better
There may be no change in your symptoms
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Hormonal unrest
During the perimenopause, estrogen and progesterone go up and down.
These hormonal changes can cause poorer pain or more often migraine attacks.
For some women, when hormone levels even break apart during postmenopause, their migraine attacks happen less often or stop completely.
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Sleep is important
Perimenopause symptoms such as hot flashes, often wake up, fear or depression can influence sleep quality.
Bad sleep can cause migraine attacks.
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Menstruation Migraine
Some women experience heavier and/or more common periods than normal during perimenopause, which can cause more attacks and more serious migraine symptoms.
2 of the 3 women with migraine disease experiences attacks during their menstruation.
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Keeping track of your perimenopause symptoms and how they influence your migraine attacks can help you and your healthcare provider (HCP) come up with a treatment plan that works for you.
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Write down your perimenopause symptoms
Follow if one of the following symptoms influence how often you get migraine attacks and how bad they are.
Tension
Depression
Concentrate
Hot flash
Insomnia
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Options for exemption
There are many treatment options that can help manage migraine disease during the perimenopause:
Oral drugs
Injectable medicines
Nasal sprays
Magnesium
Hormone therapy
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Hormone therapy can help
Hormone therapy:
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Involve your HCP
If you are in perimenopause and change your migraine symptoms, talk to your HCP about which treatment options can help.
This educational source was made with support from Pfizer.
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