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Do Oral Contraceptives Impact Migraine Pain?

by James on 13 November 2010

A small study in Germany (published last month) of 39 women was conducted to see if there was any relationship between oral contraceptives, migraine, and pain thresholds.  The findings suggest that oral contraceptives do make a difference. The study checked on pain thresholds using cold, heat, pressure, and electric current, and detection thresholds (cold, heat, [...]

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Treatment for hot flashes

by James on 30 January 2007

Hot flashes.  Many women treat these symptoms of menopause with estrogen.  That’s all very well, but some women find that the estrogen is causing them more migraine attacks – and that means jumping out of the frying pan into the fire.  Continuous estrogen therapy has been the best for some migraine sufferers.  But others still [...]

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Estrogen and migraine

by James on 4 May 2006

Dr. Jan Lewis Brandes of the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, recently did a survey of journal articles about the role of estrogen in migraine.  She discovered, of course, that changes in estrogen levels does indeed play a big part in migraine attacks. As The Daily Headache pointed out, this is really stating the obvious! [...]

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