Why do I get a migraine when my period comes?

Women will experience many symptoms during their menstruation, the most common of which is dysmenorrhea, especially those with uterine cold, who are most likely to experience dysmenorrhea. In addition to pain in the lower abdomen, some women also experience migraines during their menstruation. At this time, you must adjust your mood, and then you can use hot compresses and massage to help relieve migraines. So what is the cause of migraines during menstruation?

Why do I get a migraine when my period comes?

The possible cause of menstrual migraine is that estrogen suddenly drops before menstruation, which affects hormones and causes headaches. It is recommended to pay more attention.

This may be a vascular headache caused by menstruation. It is recommended to avoid being too nervous during menstruation, avoid catching a cold, and pay attention to some aspects of diet.

The current situation still needs to be slowly adjusted. It is recommended that in daily life, we should eliminate mental anxiety and tension, arrange work and rest reasonably, and insist on moderate exercise to enhance physical fitness.

Many women suffer from dysmenorrhea during menstruation, which is caused by insufficient Qi and blood, or liver depression and Qi stagnation.

Guidance:

It is recommended to find a Chinese medicine doctor for treatment and use some Chinese medicine for conditioning, the effect is very good.

Menstrual migraine: refers to headaches that occur before, during or after menstruation and are accompanied by migraine characteristics, and often have a family history. It is a specific type of migraine related to changes in the ovarian cycle and accounts for more than 60% of migraines in women. Headaches worsen during menstruation. The disease usually occurs during adolescence after menarche, with attacks occurring once or more per month, either during menstruation, 1 to 7 days before menstruation, or 1 to 2 days after menstruation. The pain is throbbing, explosion-like, or knife-like in the temporal or forehead. The headache lasts for 1 to 4 days and is accompanied by nausea, vomiting, dysmenorrhea, palpitations, etc. Studies have found that this type of headache is related to the sudden drop in estradiol levels before and after menstruation.

It was also found that 70% of women who took oral contraceptives had worsening migraines and more frequent headaches, and their headaches improved when they stopped taking the pills; their headaches worsened in early pregnancy and disappeared in late pregnancy. Menopausal migraine begins in remission. The treatment is mainly symptomatic treatment, such as antipyretic pain, aspirin, etc., with the addition of metoclopramide. Take propranolol, nimodipine, etc. as a preventive measure before an attack. In your daily diet, you should avoid foods containing tyramine, such as bacon, sausage, and citrus fruits. Certain beverages containing alcohol, coffee, and chocolate should also be consumed less.