Do Migraines go away with Menopause?
For many women, headaches decrease dramatically or disappear completely with menopause. However in the perimenopause, that period leading up to menopause, many women experience a worsening of their headaches or a change in their character, sometimes with increased auras but decreased headaches. All of these phenomena are almost certainly related to changes in estrogen and possibly progesterone that occur during this stage of life. Estrogen levels can be manipulated to minimize these effects. And estrogen as well as other hormones can be measured when perimenopause is suspected as the cause for changes in headache pattern.
