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  1. Melinda B
    25 October 2010 @ 5:03 pm

    Thanks, James! Menstrual migraine IS different. Although I’d successfully managed transformed migraines and breakthrough migraines with nortriptylin and diet, menstrual migraines still got me down. I might get a mild headache the week before, but more often I simply could not wake up in the morning. Not just unwilling, but physically not able to breach consciousness. One step up on my dosage and I’ve rarely missed a day of work since, but I still forgive myself for sleeping it off when I need to.

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  2. Teri @ eddyandcompany.com
    31 October 2010 @ 9:54 am

    This is the most disabling time of the month for me, but I also feel a surge of headaches during the time where I’m ovulating too… which I attribute to changes in my hormone levels. I use a different triptan during this time and it does help some. Thanks for the info. Sometimes I forget about the magnesium… must get back to that. I did help some.

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  3. Paige
    18 December 2014 @ 12:17 pm

    Trip tans are dangerous. A good opiate is really all that is needed for mine. 1/2 a nausea pill and a strong less sedating pain pill knocks it out in an hour. I will not take the triptans. Magnesium at the onset if possible or during the week of ovulation and menstration is a must to prevent it lessen the pain along with herbs that balance hormones have reduced my migraine down time to 4-7 days a months from 18-20.

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  4. Michelle Falco
    25 January 2016 @ 3:54 pm

    Menstrual migraines do feel like tention headaches. I have missed work with some of them-some months I am just fine-I have gotten massages and have taken advils, which do not seem to work. Naproxen doesn’t work. Excedrin migraine works but I use with caution. Steer clear of cheese and junk food-

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